In the midst of a growing global cyberthreat landscape, the Australian and US governments this week announced plans to increase spend to bolster federal cybersecurity. The Australian federal government’s newly released 2022-23 federal Budget has dedicated AU$9.9 billion to support cybersecurity and intelligence capabilities under a program called Resilience, Effects, Defence, Space, Intelligence, Cyber and Enablers (REDSPICE).

Encryption has come a long, long way over the last few years. Something once reserved only for militaries and governments, encryption has been made super accessible and has become standard practice in the tech industry. Whether it’s texts, photos, or word docs - it can, and should, be encrypted. Put simply, encryption scrambles any file sent or stored online into unreadable nonsense that can only be translated (or decrypted) by a user with a key.

At Nightfall, our mission is to discover and secure sensitive data in every cloud application through a cloud-native, accurate, and performant platform. Since 2019, Nightfall has partnered with some of the world’s most innovative organizations to proactively eliminate data security risks across a fleet of SaaS applications via our native integrations for Slack, Atlassian Jira, Confluence, Google Drive, and GitHub.

Sensitive data is any data that contains sensitive information. This data must be kept safe without being accessible to anyone unless they have explicit authorization to access the data. Moreover, preventing data breaches and protecting sensitive data has become one of the highest priorities in any organization. This need has been further exemplified by increased regulatory scrutiny over data collection, storage, and security in businesses.

Everyday business documents continue to be one of the biggest sources of data leakage. The Facebook leaks and WikiLeaks are prime examples of the damage such breaches can wreak. Even with the best security tools in place users seem to always be able to find a way to circumvent security. Or, as in most cases, accidentally share data with the wrong audience creating a security issue.

We’re excited to announce that Nightfall is partnering with Virtru, a renowned leader in email and SaaS encryption, to provide customers with an encryption solution for securing PHI in Gmail and Google Drive. Combined with our existing Google Drive data loss prevention (DLP) integration, this new solution will provide fully integrated compliance and security coverage for Google Workspace.

Data security is, and always has been, one of the core pillars upon which we've built Polar Security – and we know how equally important it is to our customers. This is why we're excited to announce that we are now compliant with the System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2 Type II standard for security, availability, and confidentiality.

As the character Don Draper from the classic TV series “Mad Men” once said, “change is neither good nor bad, it simply is”. Payment card technology brought with it countless new opportunities but also countless new risks. In order to tackle those risks a new ecosystem of protection tools was created with its own complexities and problems. To govern this ecosystem, security standards such as the PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) were created.

Data bias: the insidious threat lurking in your data unless you’ve taken active steps to mitigate it. It causes the potential to harm, skew or invalidate your data completely – or sometimes all three at once.