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If the last year has taught us anything, “hope for the best and plan for the worst” should be the new mantra of business owners and IT professionals. No one could have predicted the global pandemic that wreaked havoc on industries and businesses around the world; yet, those companies with a business continuity plan were far better off than those without one.

At Nightfall, we believe in the power of learning from those who have done it before. That’s why we created CISO Insider — a podcast interview series that features CISOs and security executives with a broad set of backgrounds, from hyper-growth startups to established enterprises. Through these interviews, we’ll learn how industry experts overcame obstacles, navigated their infosec careers, and created an impact in their organizations.

It’s well-established that a data breach is an extremely costly event. By some estimates, a data leak can cost a small to medium-sized business more than $7.68 million per incident. Compliance regimes may seem burdensome, but the goal of these policies is to prevent a devastating data breach that can bankrupt a business and cause myriad problems for consumers.

The Nightfall blog is a resource for information security professionals to learn more about the challenges we face in the industry. Every week, Nightfall publishes news and insights from the world of cloud security to help you stay current with the cybersecurity world and better prepare for threats before they become serious problems. In January, we hosted two additional infosec leaders on the CISO Insider podcast: Compass CISO J.J. Agha and LifeOmic Chief Legal Officer Lisa Hawke.

Protecting your valuable information is a multifaceted process that requires a layering of tools, policies, and approaches to ensure proper data loss prevention. In addition to having a range of network, endpoint and cloud DLP tools in place, businesses need a strong foundation of policies, guiding principles, and rules underpinning the approach to data security. A cloud security framework is part of this holistic approach to protecting your information in the cloud.

In 2017, The Economist announced that the world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil – it’s data. Since the phrase “big data” was coined in the 1990s, data has become increasingly important to virtually every aspect of running a business – not to mention how we conduct our daily lives. It’s no surprise that some of the most valuable companies are also those that capture the most user data. Take Facebook, for instance.

At Nightfall, we believe in the power of learning from those who have done it before. That’s why we created CISO Insider — a podcast interview series that features CISOs and security executives with a broad set of backgrounds, from hyper-growth startups to established enterprises. Through these interviews, we’ll learn how industry experts overcame obstacles, navigated their infosec careers, and created an impact in their organizations.

With the administration of COVID-19 vaccines beginning around the world, many of us have begun to look to a future where the pandemic does not totally dominate our lives. Naturally, the way we socialize and work will have shifted. Remote work, for instance, has shown to be more productive and preferable for many businesses. In the cybersecurity space, we’re also beginning to realize which threats are opportunistic and temporary – and which ones are here to stay.

At the beginning of 2019, 60% of companies responding to the Insider Threat Report survey reported that they were planning to implement a data loss prevention (DLP) solution. For a few years, organizations have been aware that they need to add data loss prevention (DLP) tools and software to their technology stack in order to safeguard sensitive information collected and stored` However, there’s a common misconception that DLP is just one “thing”.