Check out our learnings and activities from 2014...and don't forget to claim your gift.
2014: A Year in Review from Code42 Once again, Code42 ranked as one of the fastest growing companies in North America.
Folks wonder why we're so popular when we're mostly invisible. We work behind the scenes to keep data safe for more than 35,000 businesses and the most prestigious universities in the world. Read our year in review, and you'll find there's a treat in it for you!
TOP CUSTOMER VIDEOGoKart Labs: Keep Calm & Back Up
TOP WHITE PAPERWhy Endpoint Backup is More Critical Than Ever
TOP ON-DEMAND WEBINARThe Top 5 Truths about Enterprise File Sync and Share
Customer:
TaylorMade
Industry:
Sporting Goods
Deployment Strategy:
Private Cloud
Universal, continuous protection of endpoint data simplifies migration and cuts time on tickets. TaylorMade was encountering consistency and complexity issues with its Altiris data backup and recovery solution. Reporting was not accurate, leaving administrators without reliable information on the number of protected endpoints or completed backups. Read the full study to learn how they secured data and reduced management time.
READ THE CASE STUDY
2-MINUTE CRASHPLAN VIDEO RELEASED This year, we created an "Intro to CrashPlan" video. In just two minutes, learn how CrashPlan enterprise endpoint backup provides a foundation to protect the most important resource in your business.
- 20 customer survey respondents cited saving $5M or more since implementing CrashPlan
- 14,200 new Facebook fans/Twitter followers
- 148 new Code42 employees hired
- 5 exabytes of data stored in the Code42 Cloud
- >96% customer satisfaction rating maintained throughout the year
- 86,662 cups of coffee consumed at Code42's MN headquarters
- 5,850 "Data Loss Bytes" t-shirts given out
- 82% of CrashPlan customers surveyed described their CrashPlan deployment as private or hybrid cloud.
- Many customers use CrashPlan to support their compliance initiatives—such as HIPAA and FERPA—in concert wtih their data security/privacy policies.
- Customers applauded Code42's standout features: performance, rock-solid reliability, ease-of-use and our own Customer Champion support team.
VIEW ALL RESEARCH FINDINGS
EXECUTIVE BRIEF: Drop Your Consumer Cloud Problem—How to Woo Employees to Enterprise File Sync & Share
SharePlan enterprise file sync/share is built with a security-first mindset that provides full visibility and control of shared files across all users—without compromising the user experience.
WATCH SHAREPLAN VIDEO
Wow! We are grateful to have received many honors and awards this year. Check out some of our top accolades from 2014.
Our Customer Champions have the smarts to assist customers quickly and they have a blast while they're at it! Watch this quick video to see a day in the life of Code42 Customer Champion Jake. Oh...and you might just see a unicorn too.
CHECK IT OUT
We're still catching our breath! We attended 207 events in 2014. Below are a few of our favorites. Did we see you there?
FEB 24
MAY 12
AUG 24
OCT 6
San Francisco, CA
Houston, TX
San Francisco, CA
VIEW OUR UPCOMING EVENTS FOR 2015
ALL THIS CHEER MAKES US FEEL GENEROUS We hope you enjoyed our highlights from 2014! We'd like to give you a gift to say thanks. And since The New York Times included CrashPlan endpoint backup in its 2014 Holiday Gift Guide, we think giving you one year of free home backup might be just the right thing.
Free? Yep, free.
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You're probably using one of these 25 terrible passwords
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As hackers know all too well, most people are lazy password-creators. And despite several high-profile data breaches, not much changed in 2014.
The year's most common—and least secure—passwords looked pretty familiar, according to the security services company SplashData's annual list, based on 3.3 million leaked passwords in North America and Europe.
As in 2013, "123456" and "password" held the top two slots, and number-only passwords in general comprised half of the top ten passwords. Patterns like "qwerty," which is the consecutive six keys at the top of the keyboard, remained in the top five.
There were a few new additions in the top 25 most-used passwords: Superheroes such as "batman" and "superman" were popular; "dragon" and "mustang," showed a love of wild beasts, and "baseball" and "football" of sports. Meanwhile, the simpler, more upbeat days of 2013's "princess," "sunshine," and "iloveyou" were over. (The continued popularity of "shadow" and "trustno1″ indicated some aspirations to subterfuge—thwarted, perhaps, by those passwords' ubiquity.)
| rank | 2013 | 2014 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 123456 | 123456 |
| 2 | password | password |
| 3 | 12345678 | 12345 |
| 4 | qwerty | 12345678 |
| 5 | abc123 | qwerty |
| 6 | 123456789 | 1234567890 |
| 7 | 111111 | 1234 |
| 8 | 1234567 | baseball |
| 9 | iloveyou | dragon |
| 10 | adobe123 | football |
| 11 | 123123 | 1234567 |
| 12 | admin | monkey |
| 13 | 1234567890 | letmein |
| 14 | letmein | abc123 |
| 15 | photoshop | 111111 |
| 16 | 1234 | mustang |
| 17 | monkey | access |
| 18 | shadow | shadow |
| 19 | sunshine | master |
| 20 | 12345 | michael |
| 21 | password1 | superman |
| 22 | princess | 696969 |
| 23 | azerty | 123123 |
| 24 | trustno1 | batman |
| 25 | 000000 | trustno1 |
Appearances aside, people actually seem to have taken greater precautions with online protection, said Mark Burnett, an online security expert who worked with SplashData. 2014 saw the "lowest percentage of people using the most common passwords" he explained.
Besides avoiding the common passwords, here are some tips to creating a safer password: Stick to longer, mixed-character passwords (eight or more characters in both capital and lower case letters); stay away from easily guessable personal clues such as pets' names; avoid dictionary words and instead purposefully misspell words.