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What is FIPS 140-3?

Encryption has become a vital data protection tool used by global governments, defense and enterprises. However, not all solutions use the same cipher techniques. Several encryption algorithms can be used to secure data with varying levels of security. To establish acceptable standards for encryption technologies utilized by the U.S. Government, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) published the Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) FIPS-140.

How To Secure Data When Working With Freelancers and Subcontractors

Working with freelancers and subcontractors is essential for business growth, but it also introduces security risks. In this short video, learn the top security threats businesses face when working with freelancers and several tips you can use to secure your organization’s data.

The Role of Data Transfer Monitoring with DLP in Tracking Internal & External Data Movement

Data Loss Prevention (DLP) tools are crucial for protecting sensitive information as it moves within and outside an organization. They help prevent data leaks and unauthorized access by allowing organizations to monitor, control, and respond to potential data transfer risks. In this article, let’s learn more about how DLP tools play a vital role in secure data transfers.

Why Growing Businesses Are Turning to Managed IT Services

When your business expands, you need to stay relevant as you navigate the digital landscape. So, how do you achieve this? The best approach is to partner with competent and reliable tech experts. Sometimes, your trusted in-house teams may struggle to support the ever-changing IT demands. This may result in inefficiencies and operational challenges. This is where outsourcing to a trusted service provider comes in. The team will offer IT solutions that involve round-the-clock system monitoring to address potential issues before they disrupt your day-to-day operations.

10 Best practices for enterprise data loss prevention in 2025

Cybersecurity Insiders’ Insider Threat Report 2023 states that 74% of organizations are moderately or more vulnerable to insider threats, which demonstrates why organizations need resilient data loss prevention strategies. Your organization needs strong access controls and detailed monitoring systems to protect sensitive information effectively.

Securing Sensitive Information Amidst Divorce Proceedings

Divorce is a big change in life. It can bring up many emotions and hard decisions. One thing people often forget is how important it is to keep their personal and financial information safe. In today's world, it's easy for private data to fall into the wrong hands. During divorce proceedings, this risk can grow. Taking steps to protect your information can help you feel more in control during this time.

Why Partial DLP Coverage Leaves Your Data Exposed - And How to Fix It

At first, hearing this common refrain from security leaders comes as a shock. But if you know about the limitations of legacy data loss prevention (DLP) solutions, this statement makes perfect sense. Legacy DLP can leave security teams with the assumption that they have full control over their data risk profile and vectors. In reality, blind spots can occur in any security configuration.

The State of Data Security: A Distributed Crisis

Welcome to the Data Security Decoded podcast by Rubrik Zero Labs. In this episode, our host Caleb Tolin speaks with Joe Hladik, a veteran security expert with two decades of experience, to explore the evolving landscape of cybersecurity, incident response, and the critical challenges of data security in today's distributed environments.

Building a Future-Proof Career: The Role of Data in Professional Growth

In an era defined by rapid technological advancements and economic shifts, the ability to future-proof a career has become more critical than ever. Traditional job security no longer exists in the way it once did, as industries undergo significant transformations driven by automation, artificial intelligence, and big data. Professionals who wish to stay relevant must embrace continuous learning, adaptability, and data-driven decision-making. Data is at the core of modern business operations, influencing everything from strategic planning to consumer behavior analysis.

Quantum, Classic, Still Stupid Data

The need for a new type system. The age of quantum is about to begin, like Sauron in The Lord of the Rings, who seeks to dominate Middle-earth and all its inhabitants. Its ascendance is around the corner, starting to establish a new world order, still in the depths of Mordor, yet ever-so magically manifesting itself on the heels of the Crypto Winter.

Building DLP for a ChatGPT World

Generative AI has gone from a novelty to an essential part of daily workflows across all teams at an organization. Whether it’s ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Claude, or Google Gemini, employees are using chatbots to copy, paste, summarize, and query data at a pace and scale we have never seen before. Unfortunately, data security has not been a fundamental feature of generative AI as the technology’s popularity and functionality has exploded.

Turn Data Security Question into Answer - Netwrix Access Analyzer Supports Natural Language Prompts

Turn Data Security Questions into Answers - Instantly! With the new MCP integration, Netwrix Access Analyzer supports natural language prompts in tools like Claude Desktop and Microsoft Copilot Studio, helping your team surface actionable insights faster and strengthen your security posture. Just ask: No scripting or digging through dashboards. Just fast, actionable answers, when and where you need them.

SquareX to Uncover Data Splicing Attacks at BSides San Francisco, A Major DLP Flaw that Compromises Data Security of Millions

SquareX researchers Jeswin Mathai and Audrey Adeline will be disclosing a new class of data exfiltration techniques at BSides San Francisco 2025. Titled "Data Splicing Attacks: Breaking Enterprise DLP from the Inside Out", the talk will demonstrate multiple data splicing techniques that will allow attackers to exfiltrate any sensitive file or clipboard data, completely bypassing major Data Loss Protection (DLP) vendors listed by Gartner by exploiting architectural vulnerabilities in the browser.

Digital supply chain security: How to secure your supply chain with DLP and Secude

Data loss prevention (DLP) software provides strong protection after data is stored, Secude provides Zero Trust protection before data is stored. Together, they secure your digital supply chain. Ensuring digital supply chain security is a fundamental part of the EU’s NIS2 Directive - and for good reason. In recent years, digital supply chains have become the main targets of cyberwarfare, with supply chain attacks rising 2,600% since 2018.

Data Loss Prevention and NIS2: how to plug DLP security gaps for NIS2 compliance

Data loss prevention (DLP) solutions, which kick in after data is stored, are insufficient for NIS2 compliance. Here’s how to plug the DLP security gap before data is stored. Does traditional data loss prevention (DLP) software help or hinder NIS2 compliance?

Article 7 of GDPR: Preserving Data Integrity in Image Publication

For all the tremendous opportunities that the digitization of business operations has unlocked, there are also complex security and data privacy challenges that organizations have to navigate. In the interests of business privacy and security, legislation exists to hold organizations and policymakers to account. None are perhaps more influential and necessary than the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Netwrix Launches the First MCP Server to Bring LLMs into Data Security!

Netwrix announces first MCP server to harness the power of Netwrix + LLMs for data security. Today, we're open-sourcing our first MCP server – and it’s powering up Netwrix Access Analyzer with conversational AI to help customers assess and remove sensitive data exposures. Netwrix is first to market in the data security security industry with an MCP server, enabling you to bring your favorite Generative AI tool to the critical task of securing your data.

Why Your Podiatrist's Digital Security Matters: Protecting Your Personal Health Data

When you think about sensitive medical information, your foot health records probably don't jump to mind first. Yet the records your podiatrist keeps contain surprisingly intimate details about your overall health, mobility patterns, and even underlying conditions like diabetes or vascular disease.

How to Cut PCI DSS Scope and Eliminate Compliance Costs

Securing PCI and PII data is at the core of what we do at Protegrity. You can try out Protegrity’s capabilities today, through our API Playground. This section walks you through some sample scenarios of de-identifying PCI data, so that it is removed from your environment and only reversed once it leaves it. To run this example, you have to be signed up to the Protegrity API Playground.

Nightfall Product Updates & News: April 2025

Managing endpoint security just got easier with Nightfall. Our latest updates enhance device management for endpoint security and expand data protection to give security and IT teams greater control with less overhead. Here’s the latest updates and features from Nightfall at a glance: Read more on how these updates help keep your security posture strong while minimizing distractions and unnecessary alerts.

G2 Recognizes Nightfall as Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Leader for Spring 2025

Nightfall has been named a leader in Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Sensitive Data Discovery, Data Security, and Cloud Data Security in G2’s Spring ‘25 reports. We’d like to extend a huge thank you to all of Nightfall’s customers and supporters for making this possible - and an even bigger thank you goes to the Nightfall team’s tireless dedication to building solutions that protect our customers’ sensitive data across the sprawling enterprise attack surface.

Secure API Keys and Passwords with Nightfall's AI-Native DLP

API keys and passwords are the keys to digital kingdoms, granting access to an organization’s most valuable systems and data. Traditional data loss prevention (DLP) systems often fall short in their attempts to protect sensitive data and secrets, leaving security teams overwhelmed with false positives and noise. At Nightfall, we understand these challenges and the evolving threat landscape across SaaS and endpoints.