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“PII” stands for personally identifiable information. Hackers often target personally identifiable information for a variety of reasons: to steal a customer’s identity, take over an account, launch a phishing attack, or damage an organization. As a result, there is a multitude of regulations concerning PII protection. Before your company approaches meeting these regulations, it’s important to have a firm understanding of the data you will be protecting.

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) is becoming the dominant way enterprises access digital tools. While this delivery method has many advantages, from scalability to consistent security updates, it can create significant vulnerabilities if developers and users aren’t careful. Organizations today use more than 100 SaaS apps on average, and that figure keeps climbing.

Authenticity and non-repudiation are two core concepts in information security regarding the legitimacy and integrity of data transmission. Because we transmit data every day, it's important to verify the sender's origin (authentication) and ensure that during transmission, the data was not intercepted or altered in any way (integrity).

Third-party risk has always been a concern for organizations, but since COVID and the rise of remote work, we’ve seen a dramatic acceleration in campaigns leveraging software supply chain attacks. Not just through open source vulnerabilities, but through closed source applications and services as well. To adapt to this new normal, it’s important to develop an understanding of supply chain attacks and protect yourself from them.

We recently hosted a live discussion covering emerging trends within the cloud security space, primarily reflecting on how organizations could adopt a posture of continuous security and compliance across their SaaS applications. Continue on below to view the highlights from this discussion.

All information is an attractive target for bad actors, but some is inherently more valuable than others. State-sponsored and hacktivist attacks constantly probe enterprise networks seeking to identify the location of sensitive information. Attackers historically targeted core enterprise systems but as the defenses for those systems have matured, attackers now target the same information but in less secured unstructured (broadly speaking, file and email based) repositories.

Today’s threat actors often carry out cyber attacks with the primary objective of accessing and exfiltrating sensitive information from your IT environment. Efforts to obtain this “crown jewel” information usually involve complex multi-phase cyber attacks. But another way in which sensitive data ends up in the hands of malicious actors with a lot less effort is when an organization exposes sensitive data assets in a data leak incident.

In the present age, when data has become a significant aspect of every business application, more pieces of information have been stored and processed. The security and quality of that information are vital to protect the health of the data throughout its lifecycle. Implementing measures that preserve the integrity of the data is increasingly vital for organisations around the world.

Selling to the Department of Defence or dealing with Export Controlled material? Discover how to manage the information security and compliance of ITAR and other regulated data.