Nightfall customers have always lauded the platform’s ease of use and simplicity, but our team is always hard at work looking for ways to improve user experience. This month, we’ve made multiple features GA across the platform, that will further your ability to further customize what content and files trigger Nightfall detectors as well as the ways you can ingest this data.

There are many ways to share data in SharePoint, including lists. A SharePoint list is a collection of data that a user can share with other users to whom they have permitted access. A variety of default list templates are provided in SharePoint to allow for easier set-up. Users can also import such lists (usually in CSV format) from other applications.

Every software we use consists of instructions in the form of computer codes that dictate how computers behave or perform certain tasks. But not all software is designed to make our lives easier. Malware, a portmanteau of the words malicious and software, is specifically designed to help hackers gain access to, steal information from, or damage a computer. Oftentimes, all this happens without the knowledge of the computer user themselves. Until it’s too late, that is.

I’ve heard the title of this article uttered in exasperation by more than a few CISOs. That can’t be the case though, right? Developers are some of the most paranoid cautious, security-conscious people I know. Compared to your average person, developers are far more skeptical when it comes to their personal data. Even as a CEO, those instincts from my time as a full-time dev persist.

In today’s data-driven world, businesses view data as a crucial business asset. Companies gather growing volumes of information from increasingly diverse data sources. Coupled with distributed and complex IT environments, this interwoven data landscape presents cyber threats through data supply chain risks.‍ A statistic exemplifying data supply chain risks is that 45 percent of data breaches occur in cloud computing systems, many of which aren’t owned by the companies that use them.

Yesterday, TechCrunch broke a story about pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca, which experienced a leak affecting sensitive patient data. We think this incident is worth reviewing to learn more about how data exfiltration risk is distributed across the entirety of an organization’s SaaS infrastructure.

That’s a wrap for Data Security Summit 2022! Last month, we gathered some of the wisest forces from the frontlines of cybersecurity to discuss why data security is a crucial component—and often a missing one—of a well-rounded security strategy.