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DLP Approach for The Cloud is Broken: Here's Why and How to Solve It

Data Loss Prevention (DLP) is one of the long-standing and more traditional approaches to securing enterprise data. It can be either network or endpoint-based, each having their own unique benefits and challenges. DLP technologies have traditionally been prone to false positives, and as such, some of their best use-cases are for controlling very predictable and structured content in very specific situations.

What are PCI Security Standards?

PCI DSS stands for Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard. This standard is set forth by the PCI Security Standards Council, an organization founded in 2006 by American Express, Discover, JCB International, Mastercard and Visa Inc. The PCI DSS sets security rules for any business that accepts their cards, with the goal of protecting customer credit and debit card data. Any business that accepts any non-cash payments needs to meet the PCI standards.

Network Segmentation: What Is It and How Does It Affect PCI Scope?

Network segmentation is a practice that can dramatically lower the time, effort and cost of a PCI DSS assessment. Not only is it an industry best practice for security cardholder data, but it’s also an effective way of controlling the annual commitment of meeting your PCI compliance requirements. Here’s how network segmentation works, as well as some key best practices for using network segmentation to reduce the scope of your PCI assessment.

PCI Compliance for Small Business

PCI compliance applies to businesses of all sizes: In fact, the PCI Council sets compliance standards according to how many card-based transactions a business handles each year. There are four merchant levels are Small businesses usually fall under level four. If you’re not sure what level your business falls into, your point-of-sale (POS) reports may be able to tell you.

What is a Data Subject Access Request (DSAR) And Why You Should Care?

In a security landscape defined by regular high-profile breaches compromising individual data - states, countries, and economic unions introduced laws aiming to give people more control over what businesses do with their data. A pressing security concern for CISOs, IT security, and compliance teams is ensuring that their organization doesn’t breach any rules from the increasing number of regulations protecting people’s data.

Tips for using tree sitter queries

When it comes to use cases like quick code formatting and syntax highlighting across many languages, tree-sitter is an excellent tool. But it does so much more than that. At Bearer, we use it as the base for our static code analysis feature. In this article we’ll look at tree sitter, how to use it, and how to avoid some of mistakes we made when implementing it. This should help you in making the decision if tree sitter is a good choice for your use case.

10 Data Vulnerabilities That Can Cause Data Loss

Data loss can result from a variety of vulnerabilities that are common in data storage systems. Because of their prevalence, these vulnerabilities can cause widespread data loss if not properly addressed. According to IBM, the average cost of a data breach for US-based companies is approximately $8.6 million. In addition to this, it could take more than nine months to identify that a data breach has occurred.

Introducing a new & improved malware solution for home PC's

CatchPulse, formerly known as SecureAPlus, is the must-have cybersecurity solution for your home as it protects against the increasing threat of cyberattacks - without forcing you to become a cybersecurity expert. In 2021, ransomware attacks increased by a whopping 105% and malicious malware still continues to infiltrate devices with over 5.4 billion attacks recorded in the last year alone.

Boost Your Information Security to Meet ITAR Compliance

The U.S. Government requires all manufacturers, importers, exporters, and brokers of defence articles, defence services or related technical information to meet International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) compliance. Applying these regulations to your business and to those within the greater supply chain introduces additional costs, rigor, and complexity into your processes. This whitepaper introduces 5 essential checkpoints of ITAR and provides strategies to assist with compliance and cyber resilience.