Q: What's happened recently to make you interested in storage security?
About the expert
Ryk Edelstein is the founder and director of operations of Converge Net Inc., a Montreal-based network services provider specializing in data loss prevention, risk and vulnerability management, and automated policy violation detection and protection. He has held various roles for a number of IT services companies since 1981. Click to download his data storage security FAQ podcast.
When clients approach a VAR with an expressed or urgent data storage security need, the reason is typically due to a recent incident involving data loss, a discovered vulnerability, or to fill gaps in policy or meet best practice, or to establish compliance with regulations. Understanding the clients' objectives is critical to positioning a suitable solution, whether involving modification to policy or the positioning of technology.
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