Nightfall

San Francisco, CA, USA
2019
  |  By Isaac Madan
Back in 2018, Rohan and I founded Nightfall on the belief that AI could make data leak prevention (DLP) better, faster, and more accessible to every enterprise. At the time, Rohan was a founding engineer at Uber Eats, and I was an investor at Venrock specializing in SaaS and security. From these respective vantage points, we could see that legacy solutions weren’t working, and could never keep up with the evolving threat landscape.
  |  By Madeline Day
In order to prevent worst-case data leak and data loss scenarios, security teams need to have both proactive and reactive measures in place. Let’s explore this further with an example. Imagine your sensitive data as valuables within a house. There are multiple ways to secure that house, including the following. To put this example into practice, security teams would need to: The first and last of these bullet points fall under the umbrella of SaaS Security Posture Management, or SSPM.
  |  By Isaac Madan
As the adoption of generative AI (GenAI) accelerates across enterprises, one of the most promising applications emerges in customer support. GenAI enables automated responses, allowing businesses to engage in natural conversations with customers and provide real-time chat support. However, this convenience comes with inherent risks, particularly concerning data privacy.
  |  By Madeline Day
The modern enterprise relies on hundreds of SaaS apps, email services, generative AI (GenAI) tools, custom apps, and LLMs, which often contain sensitive data. For too long, security teams have been forced to patch together point solutions for coverage across these channels, increasing their workloads and creating opportunities for sensitive data to slip through the cracks. This is precisely where Nightfall’s single-pane-of-glass solution comes into play: With Nightfall Sensitive Data Protection.
  |  By Madeline Day
Did you know that 41% of breaches involve email? For threat actors, cloud email systems like Gmail and Microsoft Exchange are treasure troves for valuable internal information like PII, PCI, PHI, secrets, and credentials. In order to limit the blast radius of privilege escalation attacks, and to remain in compliance with standards like HIPAA, it’s essential for enterprises to protect thousands of emails per day.
  |  By Madeline Day
Nearly one third of all data breaches are caused by insiders. While you might immediately think of malicious insiders, like disgruntled or departing employees, insider risk can take numerous forms, including: From these examples alone, it’s easy to see just how prevalent insider risk really is. Whether it’s intentional or unintentional, insider risks often have the same consequences as external risks, including data leaks, data loss, noncompliance, and more.
  |  By Nightfall
Nightfall AI today unveiled new capabilities to transform data security for the modern enterprise. The industry's first generative AI (GenAI) DLP platform now offers coverage for SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM), data encryption, data exfiltration prevention and sensitive data protection. These products expand the company's existing suite of data leak prevention (DLP) solutions for protecting data at rest and in use across SaaS applications, GenAI tools, email and endpoints.
  |  By Madeline Day
Legacy data leak prevention (DLP) solutions are failing. Simply put, they weren’t built for business environments rooted in SaaS apps and generative AI (GenAI) tools. Meanwhile, security threats are evolving at a breakneck pace, with as many as 95% of enterprises experiencing multiple breaches a year. New attack surfaces are unfurling at a rapid rate following the switch to hybrid and cloud-based workspaces.
  |  By The Nightfall Team
This month, the Nightfall team has some exciting product enhancements to share with you, including an expansion of our secrets detectors as well as brand new APIs for automated workflows. Dive in to find out what we've been working on—as well as what's coming next.
  |  By Madeline Day
Since the widespread migration to the cloud, DLP has become an essential—yet often dreaded—tool for protecting data from leaks, breaches, exfiltration, and more. It’s no secret that traditional DLP solutions have a less-than-stellar reputation. Security teams are squeezed tighter than ever in terms of time and resources. Needless to say, adding more alerts on top of already daunting workloads is less than ideal. It’s time for a smarter, more sustainable form of DLP.
  |  By Nightfall
**ChatGPT Data Leak Prevention (DLP) by Nightfall AI: Prevent Data Leaks and Protect Privacy** ChatGPT is a powerful AI utility that can be used for a variety of tasks, such as generating text, translating languages, and writing different kinds of creative content. However, it is important to use ChatGPT safely and securely to prevent data leaks, protect privacy, and reduce risk.
  |  By Nightfall
Nightfall is the first AI-powered data leak prevention (DLP) solution for Zendesk. Discover sensitive data in support tickets and files. Automatically find and remove PII, PCI, and API keys, reducing the risk of breach and simplifying compliance.
  |  By Nightfall
Karim Beldjilali, current Nightfall CISO and former CISO of Rightway, speaks about how he strategized about enabling cloud HIPAA compliance in his previous role. Karim initially boiled down HIPAA compliance to three key areas before searching for tools to manage cloud HIPAA data compliance.
  |  By Nightfall
Karim Beldjilali, current Nightfall CISO and former CISO of Rightway, speaks about how security has shifted from prevention to safe enablement of collaboration. This informed Karim's selection of security tools as he knew he needed to leverage HIPAA compliance solutions. in line with this philosophy.
  |  By Nightfall
Karim Beldjilali, current Nightfall CISO and former CISO of Rightway detail Nightfall's 90 day impact on HIPAA compliance initiatives in his former role and why the platform is useful for the security and enablement of secure cloud usage in healthcare settings.
  |  By Nightfall
The Nightfall Data Loss Prevention Platform introduces new enhancements for API key detection. Our best-in-class machine learning detector now includes metadata about any API keys detected by the platform, including what services they belong to and if the key is live.
  |  By Nightfall
The Nightfall platform is a SaaS data protection solution known for its impressive scope of coverage and accuracy. Now, thanks to new features that have been baked into the Nightfall Console, users will have an enhanced functionality and user experience. Central to this update is a unified dashboard UI that allows for alerts to be viewed and managed from a central screen. Watch this announcement video to learn more!
  |  By Nightfall
Bluecore CISO Brent Lassi joins Chris Martinez on CISO Insider to chat about the many things he’s seen and learned and worked on over two decades in the cybersecurity industry. From founding one of the first application security companies in the world, to following the evolution of DLP over the years, to now working in a cloud-native world without a traditional perimeter and how these challenges led him to Nightfall, Brent has many stories to tell.
  |  By Nightfall
PagerDuty Head of Information Security Lisa Hall joins us on CISO Insider for an in-depth discussion on what diversity in the infosec industry really looks like — not just hiring to meet DEI quotas, but fostering differences to build strengths across the board. Diversity in thought and background among her staff is a success factor for Lisa’s team, and it leads to greater diversity in the work they do at PagerDuty.
  |  By Nightfall
In our Season 3 premiere of CISO Insider, Acquia VP of Security and CISO Robert Former discusses working as a cybersecurity leader today. Robert shares how radical transparency has helped him at every step of his career: making the right decisions for his org by accepting the right levels of risk, effectively managing data security and compliance in a Platform as a Service environment, and maintaining the connections necessary to make remote work successful.

Nightfall™ uses machine learning to identify business-critical data, like customer PII, across your SaaS, APIs, and data infrastructure, so you can manage & protect it.

Our deep learning-based classifiers are trained on massive volumes of data to yield high accuracy. Unlike traditional methods, Nightfall considers the context surrounding a given token in order to accurately classify it. This means Nightfall performs well on unstructured and ambiguous data, which is increasingly common in enterprises today. Nightfall parses and scans 100+ file types, including images, screenshots, compressed folders, PDFs, etc.

Nightfall does not store or track your sensitive data. Our classifications are fed into the Nightfall platform so you can review & remediate the findings, or leverage them in your own way via our REST API.

Discover, classify, and protect your sensitive data:

  • Discover: Integrate in minutes with cloud services via APIs to monitor data without agents.
  • Classify: Machine learning classifies your sensitive data & PII with high accuracy, so nothing gets missed.
  • Protect: Setup automated workflows for quarantines, deletions, alerts, and more - saving you time and keeping your business safe.

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