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

Zero Trust A Data-Centric Strategy for Success

Now more than ever the Boardroom, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Information Officer have information security front of mind and keeping them awake at night. Every day a new attack, incident or vulnerability is announced that has a significant impact on reputation, compliance, cost or service delivery. Chief Information Security Officers must now adapt to this changing landscape and lead their organizations to adopt new security methodologies to both protect and enable their data whenever and wherever it is required in a cost effective, risk managed way. So how do they achieve it?

Guiding and Managing the Implementation of Attribute Based Access Control

Business demands information management that meets their needs. From an IT perspective, it means that stakeholders are demanding access to information services that reach far beyond the boundaries of the organisation. At the same time, they are also expecting the IT department to protect their high-value information assets and intellectual property. How can you ensure that enabling remote and mobile access to your protected information services will not compromise your high-value information assets?

5 Questions to Ask When Evaluating DSPM Solutions

Data protection solutions, and in particular, Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) platforms, should be built to effectively map, monitor, and protect your organization’s most valuable asset — your data. But not all cloud data security and compliance tools offer the same advantages, and not all will be suitable for your business’s unique data requirements.

Two Concerning Security Trends Highlighted by Recent Breaches

Another day, another data breach has become a common refrain, in a world saturated with data breaches and other types of data exposures. But over the past few years, a subtle change in the nature of breaches has taken place. We documented some of this change in our analysis of the 100 largest breaches in the 21st century, highlighting that breaches were getting larger and more likely the result of misconfigurations.

Sensitive Data Exposure: What Is It and How to Avoid It?

In today’s global data economy ecosystem, businesses gather and store an abundance of sensitive information about individuals inside their IT environments. Carelessness in protecting this sensitive data often exposes it to increased data breach risks, the costs of which have climbed to $4.24 million per breach, according to the most recent figures. A data breach is distinct from data exposure.

NC Protect is now available in both Microsoft Azure Marketplace and Azure Government Marketplace!

We are excited to share that NC Protect for Microsoft 365 is now available in both Microsoft Azure Marketplace and Azure Government Marketplace! archTIS customers can now take advantage of the productive and trusted Azure cloud platform, with streamlined procurement, deployment and management of NC Protect for M365 from the Marketplaces.

Addressing 3 Critical E-Discovery Challenges Upstream through Data Governance

Today, for enterprises and even SMB companies, IT is a sprawling but interconnected universe of applications, devices, and services all running in tandem to maintain the lifeblood of these organizations—data. Navigating the complexities of this arrangement is not just a challenge for security teams (something which Nightfall customers have attested to, before adopting our platform), it’s a genuine challenge for anyone who must manage and use information.

4 Ways to Detect and Prevent Data Misuse

Rights and powers mean access to data. And sometimes, when an employee feels a lack of control, they can use the data they’ve been given access to for their own benefit. This misuse can threaten an organization’s data security or even lead to a data breach. Data misuse was in the top seven categories of threat actions in 2020 according to the Verizon 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR). For organizations, data misuse may lead to costly lawsuits and loss of reputation.