In 2021, Gartner dropped Metadata Management from their Magic Quadrant, replacing it with a Market Guide for Active Metadata Management. On the surface, this may seem like a minor change, but in ...

VPNs encrypt your traffic, but they aren't blind to your activity. Here's the metadata your provider can see—and how to spot services that misuse it.

You, as a decision maker or implementer, are frequently bombarded with the message that the data in your organization is its lifeblood. In the modern digital age, that data has immense value to your ...

Metadata is a term for data that describes the attributes of another set of data. Metadata can determine much of what you encounter online, from the top search results returned in Google to the ...

The global surge in encrypted traffic and a wide adoption of end-to-end encryption by mainstream tech companies is a transformative shift in information security worth celebrating. Billions of online ...

When Edward Snowden released classified material exposing the U.S. government's secret surveillance program, the government insisted it did not listen in on calls. Instead, it merely collected ...

The future is encrypted. Real-time, encrypted chat apps like Signal and WhatsApp, and messaging apps like Telegram, WeChat, and Messenger—used by two out of five people worldwide—help safeguard ...

On basic practices to ensure the accessibility and search optimization of websites, federal pages, have — on average — earned an F, according to a new scoring system. The results indicate that despite ...

A simple change to your ZFS setup can drastically improve everyday tasks like browsing directories and scanning media ...

When you take a photo on your iPhone, it produces information called metadata and attaches it to your photo. Some of that metadata can be extremely useful for organization purposes, but some can be ...

Data from mobile device signals such as GSM may be an untapped resource for signals intelligence on the battlefield. Although the payload of a communication system is encoded, information about the ...