Despite the increase in cloud adoption, many organizations are still hesitant to move their confidential and highly sensitive data to the cloud. It’s not uncommon for companies to have concerns about being able to maintain the privacy, integrity, and security of their data when they migrate to the cloud or leverage cloud services. This is especially true for organizations that operate in highly regulated industries, such as healthcare, financial services, insurance, and the public sector.

Our core mission at Bearer has always been focused on improving the developer experience. As we’ve evolved, that drive narrowed in on enabling development teams to strengthen their data security posture, while still maintaining the pace and agility needs of modern software. In an environment where data breaches and leaks are increasing rapidly year over year, it’s vitally important to detect sensitive data risks before they happen.

Protecting against ransomware attacks is a cybersecurity priority for businesses of all sizes. Ransomware encrypts data files or entire systems across an organization. Encryption blocks access to these assets and renders them unusable unless the victim pays a ransom sum demanded by the threat actor in return for a decryption key.

Data encryption goes back to ancient civilisations that used forms of message concealment, in peace as well as in wartime. The Egyptians used Disordered Hieroglyphics, the Greeks Steganography, the Spartans Scytale and the Romans, the Caesar Shift Cypher. While these basic methods laid the foundations for modern cryptography, what has evolved are two fundamental approaches based on complex mathematics: symmetric and asymmetric encryption.

Data encryption is a bit like insurance - we all know we need it (a necessary evil you might say), but it’s difficult to decide what we need to protect, and with an increasing amount of options out there, it’s a mission in itself to find the right provider. That’s probably why when we take out insurance we tend to only get coverage when we feel it’s absolutely necessary – for example, for our property, our cars and when we travel.

Now that remote work has become the norm, employees are taking advantage of this opportunity to travel the globe and work from anywhere in the world—as long as it’s within company policy. With the rise of digital nomads, it is important that you know how to keep yourself safe from cyberattacks when working remotely from city to city. This blog will help you understand what you need to do to secure your data as a digital nomad.

With the rise of cloud-based applications, data loss prevention (DLP) has become an increasingly important part of information security. DLP refers to the policies and technologies used to prevent sensitive data from being lost or stolen. In the context of SaaS, this can include both the security measures implemented by the SaaS provider and the steps taken by the customer to protect their data.

In the past when organizations had a new security need, they would meet that need by purchasing a new security product. But that approach is how we ended up with an average of 76 security tools per enterprise, according to a 2021 survey from Panaseer. You may have a lot of tools, but that doesn’t mean your information is protected.