
Articles by Thomas Gloerfeld


Achieving Enterprise Security and Compliance with a Data-Centric Approach Introduction
Thomas Gloerfeld
Monetizing Data: Why Companies Are Looking Inside to Drive Business Success
Thomas Gloerfeld
Privacy-by-Design Becomes an ISO Standard: a New Driver for Data-Centric Security
Thomas Gloerfeld
How to Complete a Cloud Security Assessment
Thomas Gloerfeld
How to Build a Successful Cloud Security Strategy
Thomas Gloerfeld
PCI DSS V4.0 ADDS NEW PAN DATA DISCOVERY REQUIREMENT
Daniel Lewis
You are Responsible for Data Security in the Cloud
Thomas GloerfeldCloud computing is the fuel powering modern digital transformation. Across the globe, organizations invested heavily during the pandemic to adapt to new market conditions, drive more efficient business processes and support mass home working. It’s estimated that 60% of corporate data globally is now stored in the cloud, and much of this will be in public cloud data centres.

Data is the Lifeblood of your Organization
Thomas GloerfeldData is pretty crucial to any business these days. Many people claim that data is the most important asset you can possess, with more utility than capital assets and more meaningful (though often latent) insights than a host of human capital. Data reflects your entire business: your intellectual property, your industry, the broader market trends, the pain points and needs of prospective customers, and your existing customer base.

The Many Roads to Data Protection
Thomas GloerfeldGetting from point A to point B in a car always seems to be a pretty easy proposition, at least until you’re behind the wheel and moving. On a map, look for the largest road(s) with the greatest bandwidth capacity, which in the US usually means a highway or interstate, and just take that route. If one road meeting this criteria doesn’t exist, then cobble together a series of them following this general pattern (biggest roads with the most capacity), and you’re still good, right?

Best of NonStop 2021 – Zero Trust and Data-centric Security
Trevor J. Morgan
The power of NonStop data analytics – Part II – introducing safePoint Logstream –
Thomas Gloerfeld
Nacha is yet another set of Enterprise security rules and regulations
Thomas Gloerfeld
One of Thailand’s Largest Bank Implements PCI Compliant Data Protection on Countrywide Banking Network
Thomas GloerfeldThis Bank has the largest network of ATMs and branches in Thailand, with nearly 6,000 ATMs and over 1,000 branches throughout the country. They handle the travel, capital accumulation, and home deposit savings of millions of citizens. The Bank’s total assets amount to 2.62 trillion baht (THB), equivalent to approximately 80 billion USD, and in 2014 it had an operating income of 26.9 billion baht or approximately 826 million USD.

The Power of NonStop Data Analytics
Joel SandbergTwenty years ago, data analytics was a field reserved for geeks and academics, something discussed during breaks in lectures on chaos theory. The idea was to take a very random system, with lots of seemingly disparate data, and be able to tie that tangled web of data together so that meaningful outcomes could be predicted. The most obvious example is weather forecasting, which involves analyzing all the earth’s atmospheric randomness in terms of ever-changing temperature, moisture, and wind, somehow using that data to tell people to bring an umbrella to that 1 pm picnic a week from Saturday.

IT transformation provides an opportunity to fortify your security foundations
Thomas GloerfeldTrying to change the IT (Information Technology) infrastructure is hard at the best of times, but the coronavirus pandemic has ironically helped IT departments to do just that. In many cases, the pandemic has helped to accelerate IT transformation projects. Organizations are looking to digitally enable their business processes as they are grappling with the enhanced requirements and demands of the ‘new normal’.

Leading operator of Mexican hypermarkets achieves PCI-DSS compliance
Thomas Gloerfeld
Integration of enterprise messaging infrastructure on NonStop
Thomas GloerfeldBusiness today is a world of connected systems. Every application, every piece of data, and every machine is connected and exchanges data at huge volumes at ever-increasing speeds. This flow of information moves throughout every data center and out to remote locations. The data might move between applications within the business or be shared between companies. All this is, of course, also true for users of HPE NonStop systems running mission-critical applications, which need to communicate with other systems and applications in the enterprise.

Data is your superpower
Thomas GloerfeldIn today’s world of round-the-clock online business and commerce, data is everywhere. Data has become your superpower, even more so when it’s protected data.
As many users of HPE NonStop systems are processing a large amount of sensitive or mission-critical data it is paramount that such data is protected in the best possible manner.
The challenge that many organizations are facing is that the isolated databases of old have evolved dramatically and so has the need for appropriate data protection and security.

Solving the need for SNA and X.25 Support on NonStop X
Thomas GloerfeldAs the support timeline winds down for NonStop Itanium platforms, more and more customers are looking forward to their next step in their NonStop evolution. The NonStop X platform running L-series is the new home where customers are moving. For some customers there is a serious issue in moving to NonStop X. They still heavily use SNA, SNAX and/or X.25 to communicate with other companies. For some banking customers this was a particular roadblock that seemed to require rework of their application and a change in how transaction information and messages will be sent to their partners. Because HPE did not port their own SNAX and X.25 products from Itanium onto the NonStop X platform, some customers felt stuck and overwhelmed by what it might involve to migrate.
Protecting your business with data-centric security on HPE NonStop
Thomas Gloerfeld
The IT Director’s Perspective: Maximizing the Value of HPE NonStop (May-June 2019)
Thomas Gloerfeld“You are traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination.”
Your next stop, the datacenter.
It is full of the latest and greatest technologies. Rows and rows of servers sit surrounded by flash disk arrays and enough fiber to reach to the moon and back. This is the new home for your software, the lifeblood of your company. You reflect proudly on what you have helped to create and then, doubt begins to cloud this wonderful vision. Is my software worthy of running on all of this shiny new technology? Can my software take advantage of all of these technologies? Is my software ready to run in the cloud?