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The latest News and Information on Data Security including privacy, protection, and encryption.

Why Data Security is Gaining Traction

Artificial Intelligence, a digital sharing economy, and various services are changing every aspect of our lives. Global powers are competing for a bigger presence in the new digital economy and trade. Information is the cornerstone of the digital economy. The freedom and openness of the internet, as well as the removal of trade barriers, has opened a new battleground. The recent Covid-19 pandemic has opened a Pandora’s Box with cyber-hackers having ready access.

Netwrix Data Classification - Overview

Netwrix Data Classification is a software platform that helps you solve your most critical data security, content optimization and compliance needs, regardless of where your data is located. Every day employees produce tons of data. This skyrocketing data growth causes problems across the organization. Users can’t find the documents they need. Sensitive files get placed on public shares. Data storages reach their limits. It’s harder and harder for you to satisfy requests from your legal and compliance departments. Don’t let this pressure get a hold.

Everything you need to know about a DPO

In 2018, the world’s trust was shaken. That year, it was revealed that Cambridge Analytica had furtively harvested data left exposed by Facebook. The information of over 87 million individuals was exploited to assemble voter profiles and customise the distribution of political advertisements in the run up to the 2016 US Presidential Election as well as Brexit.

Gehaxelt - How Wordpress Plugins Leak Sensitive Information Without You Noticing

Sebastian Neef (@gehaxelt) is a IT security freelancer and a top contributor from the Detectify Crowdsource community. In this guest blog, he looks at ways WordPress plugins leak sensitive data in the wild: The OWASP Top 10 puts Sensitive Data Exposure on the 3rd place of the most common web security issues. In this blog post we will have a look at sensitive data exposure that you might not be aware of.

What is DLP?

This video briefly explains what data loss prevention is and which steps are crucial to establish a DLP process in your organization. Your confidential, regulated or business-critical data is constantly at risk of being lost. For example, it could be leaked from an unsecure location, or it might be sent to the wrong recipient in an email. To prevent critical information from leaving your organization, you need data loss prevention (DLP).

What is Data Loss Prevention (DLP)?

Data loss prevention (DLP) is a set of processes and technologies that ensure sensitive data is not lost, misused or exposed to unauthorized users by end-users or misconfiguration. Most data loss prevention solutions rely on data classification. This means that sensitive data is grouped into different buckets, e.g. regulated, confidential, financial data, intellectual property, and business-critical data.

A Guide to Digital Privacy for You and Your Family

Having worked with many individuals responding to incidents where their digital private images were shared without consent, social media or email accounts had unauthorised access, and even physical safety was a concern, it is all too familiar how terrifying the unknown can be. As someone who has been on both the victim’s and later the responder’s side, I am qualified to express both the terror and knowledge of things you can do to take back control.