data security
1 in 3 organizations don’t know if their public cloud data was exfiltrated
Laminar released findings from its 2022 Security Professional Insight Survey conducted at AWS re:Inforce in July 2022 and Black Hat in August 2022. The research revealed gaps …
Outdated infrastructure not up to today’s ransomware challenges
A global research commissioned by Cohesity reveals that nearly half of respondents say their company depends on outdated, legacy backup and recovery infrastructure to manage …
Data security hinges on clear policies and automated enforcement
In 2003, California became the first U.S. state to require and implement a series of data breach notification laws designed to protect against the misuse of residents’ …
The weaponizing of smartphone location data on the battlefield
For soldiers on the battlefield, the act of turning on one’s smartphone has been described as the digital equivalent of lighting a cigarette, as doing so creates a signal …
Dealing with threats and preventing sensitive data loss
Recently, Normalyze, a data-first cloud security platform, came out of stealth with $22.2M in Series A funding. This was the perfect time to catch up with co-founder and CEO …
How businesses are prioritizing data privacy
In 2021, the demand for data privacy jobs soared with no indication of slowing down and stemming from the proliferation of new government regulations and cloud migration. In …
Data recovery depends on how good your backup strategy is
99% of surveyed IT decision makers state they have backup strategies in place, but just 26% have admitted they were unable to fully restore all data/documents when recovering …
How effective are public-private partnerships?
Ninety-three percent of cyber decision-makers say public-private partnerships are vital to national defense, but only 34 percent believe they are very effective, according to …
RansomHouse: Bug bounty hunters gone rogue?
A new cybercrime outfit that calls itself RansomHouse is attempting to carve out a niche of the cyber extortion market for itself by hitting organizations, stealing their …
Taking the right approach to data extortion
Cybercriminals often specialize. An extortion effort usually begins with a person or a team selecting targets in one of two ways: either they get a request from an …
You should be able to trust organizations that handle your personal data
People have become much more sensitive about privacy and are more concerned about who has access to their data, but at the same time they are constantly sharing that …
How to ensure that the smart home doesn’t jeopardize data privacy?
The smart home has been much hyped for what feels a very long-time, but I think it is fair to say that the smart home era is now truly upon us. This status has been almost …