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It certainly a very problematic situation for Ma.gnolia which has facing a major data loss at their web center. The website has been taken offline until the engineers make up a new an fresh database for the Social Bookmarking giant.
This would be a major setback as one of the prime social bookmarking websites is a fierce competitor of Delicious ( a Yahoo brand). Michael Calore opinions his voice at Wired.com saying:
Ma.gnolia is preferred by many of the web’s tech elite for two reasons: The site has a robust and easy-to-use API for accessing stored data, and it takes a snapshot when you create a bookmark, so even if the linked site disappears, Ma.gnolia enables you to access a cached version.
This put a big question on the reliability of our(user) data. Though Monster Data Security breach is a different case but I would like relate it here because as an end user I’m not concerned that what’s happening at your end.
My concern only rests at the safety of my data. Lets hope GDrive(Google’s Web Drive which is yet to be released) hold an answer to it.
Price Waterhouse Cooper and Carnegie-Mellon’s CyLab have recent surveys that show the senior executive class to be, basically, clueless regarding IT risk and its tie to overall enterprise (business) risk. Data breaches and thefts are due to a lagging business culture – absent new eCulture, breaches will, and continue to, increase. For example: Microsoft patched for the worm affecting Heartland 4 months ago. As CIO, I’m constantly seeking things that work, in hopes that good ideas make their way back to me – check your local library: A book that is required reading is “I.T. WARS: Managing the Business-Technology Weave in the New Millennium.” It also helps outside agencies understand your values and practices.
The author, David Scott, has an interview that is a great exposure: http://www.businessforum.com/DScott_02.html –
The book came to us as a tip from an intern who attended a course at University of Wisconsin, where the book is an MBA text. It has helped us to understand that, while various systems of security are important, no system can overcome laxity, ignorance, or deliberate intent to harm. Necessary is a sustained culture and awareness; an efficient prism through which every activity is viewed from a security perspective prior to action.
In the realm of risk, unmanaged possibilities become probabilities – read the book BEFORE you suffer a bad outcome – or propagate one.
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