data security
Largest US voter data leak shines light on many problems
If US citizens weren’t convinced by now that they have long lost control of their data, the fact is more than obvious after a misconfigured database containing 198 …
Sensitive data on 198 million US voters exposed online
For at least two whole weeks, a database containing information on 198 million potential US voters – more than half of the American population – lay exposed on the …
Privacy, security concerns grow for wearables
While Google Glass was not the success Google wanted it to be, there is no doubt that the wearable camera market is growing. People may have not been comfortable with the fact …
DLP APIs: The next frontier for Data Loss Prevention
According to the Breach Level Index, there have been 7,094,922,061 data records lost or stolen since 2013 with 4,417,760 records lost or stolen every day, 184,073 records …
Is Europe ready for GDPR?
What impact will GDPR have on businesses across the UK, France, Belgium and Luxemburg? Vanson Bourne surveyed 625 IT decision makers in four countries and found that the UK is …
Cloud DLP policy violations rise as Slack, HipChat, and similar services increase in popularity
Cloud DLP policy violations in collaboration services like Slack and HipChat are on the rise, accounting for nearly 10 percent of total violations this quarter, according to …
Differences in personal security behaviors of US and UK workers
Wombat surveyed more than 2,000 working adults — 1,000 in the US and 1,000 in the UK — about cyber security topics and best practices that are fundamental to network and data …
IT professionals believe their data is safer in the cloud than on-premise
Nearly seven in 10 executives and over half of IT professionals revealed that they would prefer having a single cloud services provider handling their varied hosted …
Bored employees seen as biggest potential data security risk
Employees who become distracted at work are more likely to be the cause of human error and a potential security risk, according to a snapshot poll conducted by Centrify at …
1Password Travel Mode protects passwords from border agents
1Password has created Travel Mode, a new feature that will allow users to protect their 1Password data from unwarranted searches when they travel. The need for such a feature …
After a data breach is disclosed, stock prices fall an average of 5%
Data security breaches can negatively impact an entire organization – including sales, marketing and IT – and have a significant negative impact on company …
Data security disruptions can have cascading negative impacts
Nine in 10 global cybersecurity and risk experts believe that cyber risk is systemic and that simultaneous attacks on multiple companies are likely in 2017, according to AIG. …