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November 2020

How Understanding User Privacy Can Improve Your Cybersecurity

User privacy and cybersecurity are two terms that often get used interchangeably when we talk about protecting our information on the internet. However, privacy and security are different areas of practice – only recently have these two areas come to intersect. In 2018, Harvard Business Review reported, “[P]rivacy and security are converging, thanks to the rise of big data and machine learning.

Best Tools for Building Your DLP Tech Stack

Most organizations are aware that data loss prevention must be a top priority – but few understand how different tools and policies must be leveraged in combination to create complete, 360-degree protection for critical data. Data loss prevention (DLP) has traditionally focused on securing data on devices – laptops, phones, and internal company networks.

Foresight Mental Health is changing mental health care for the better with DLP in mind

Industry: Healthcare Employees: 244 HQ Location: San Diego, CA Keely Strong, Director of Operations Complex problems, like delivering high quality mental health services during a pandemic, require creative thinking. Foresight Mental Health began at the intersection of ingenuity and necessity: changing the way people interact with and think about mental health care by creating accessibility through the use of insurance plans and increasing provider availability.

4 Emerging SaaS Security Risks to Consider in 2021

Last year, we wrote about the threat landscape we saw on the horizon for 2020 in our SaaS threat landscape post. Focusing on apps like Slack, we honed in on the risks that would matter in 2020. Although our analysis was written well ahead of the COVID-19, some of our concerns were exacerbated as a result of the pandemic. With the pandemic continuing into 2021, we wanted to take the time to review the state of cloud adoption in 2020 and update our threat assessment going into the new year.

Which DLP Tasks to Automate - and Which to Do Manually

Just this week, the news broke that a poorly-secured AWS server exposed over 10 million hotel reservation logs from Cloud Hospitality websites, putting the information of millions of guests at risk. As of June 2020, more than 3.2 million consumer records have been exposed in the ten biggest data breaches this year. Organizations in virtually every industry struggle to get data loss prevention (DLP) right due to one big misconception about this important cybersecurity practice.

Parsley Health's innovative patient care includes protecting PHI with Nightfall

Parsley Health launched in 2015 as a new approach to healthcare: a focus on holistic health with a hybrid care model of online and in-office visits. Members pay a flat monthly fee to gain access to doctors and health coaches that help manage chronic health concerns like hormonal imbalances and autoimmune disorders. With medical care including labs and doctor visits combined with lifestyle coaching and nutrition support, people can have flexible tools to maintain a healthy lifestyle.

Protecting PHI in Slack: Nightfall adds DLP (and value) to Perry Health

Pan Chaudhury created Perry Health in 2017 to streamline healthcare delivery. He and his co-founders envisioned a digital health tool to assist healthcare providers in managing chronic conditions like diabetes and hypertension by coordinating care and communication. Perry Health supports better healthcare outcomes by monitoring and engaging with patients when they’re not in the doctor’s office.

5 Best Tools for Secure Data Transfer

In 2018, it was estimated that more than 20 million people share files each day across a variety of platforms. Since the rise of remote work, that number has only skyrocketed. Every time your business shares a file internally, with a business partner, or to the public, the risk of that data falling into the wrong hands increases.