Data leaks are a type of data loss threat that often fly under the radar — making them potentially more damaging than a malware or ransomware attack. Compared to data breaches, data leaks put customer information at risk accidentally. Data leaks can lead to credit card fraud, extortion, stolen IP, and further attacks by cybercriminals who seek to take advantage of security misconfigurations.

What can data security and privacy leaders expect from the year ahead? How will key trends shape the industry? Our team looks at three key trends that will impact security and privacy in 2022, and what leaders can do to get ahead of the curve.

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. Online transactions are essential for every modern business. From online shopping to banking, transferring funds, and sending invoices, online transactions ensure utter convenience and efficiency. However, the familiarity of making financial transactions online can make people forget about security and all the dangers that they may be facing. On top of that, new cybersecurity threats keep popping up constantly.

Last month, on December 8, we hosted a webinar alongside Bluecore CISO Brent Lassi to discuss data security risks facing high-growth organizations like his on SaaS systems like Slack. With 2022 just beginning, we wanted to share 5 important lessons about Slack and SaaS security that are worth keeping in mind this year.

Part 2 in this series dealt with filesystem tree generation. In this part, we will look into the data of the files themselves and how they relate to tree generation.

APIDays is a world series of conferences about—you guessed it—APIs. It made a lot of sense for us to attend it in past years, since we started Bearer as an API monitoring platform. As we pivoted to a data security product a year ago, we wondered if we still had something to contribute. That was until we learned that APIDays would host the Privacy Engineer Conference.

DLP ensures confidential or sensitive information (like credit card numbers, PII, and API keys) isn’t shared outside of Slack by scanning for content within messages and files that break predefined policies. DLP is important for both security and compliance reasons. With DLP in place, you’ll be able to.

Salesforce houses high volumes of customer information, support tickets, quotes and files, synced emails, tasks & notes, and much more. This data can often be accessed by teams across the company who may leverage Salesforce to provide prospects and customers with a great customer experience. However, allowing sensitive data like PII and credit card numbers to live within Salesforce can pose security & compliance risks.

Defense strategies have evolved as hackers have changed their schemes, and one new approach companies are putting into practice for their security plan is data-centric security. Older security models focused on network infrastructure and hardware security controls while data-centric security concentrates on the data itself. This means data should be secure at all points regardless of where it is stored, processed, or where it is in transit.