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How to Protect Your Data: Tips and Best Practices

With the rise of cyber threats and data breaches, ensuring your personal and business information remains secure is paramount. Hackers are continually developing more sophisticated methods to access sensitive data, and the consequences of a breach can be devastating. From financial losses to reputational damage, the risks are high. This blog will provide you with valuable tips and best practices to help you safeguard your data effectively.

Enabling Data Protection for ZTNA with Lookout

In today's remote work landscape, Lookout Secure Private Access integrates AI-enhanced Data Loss Prevention (DLP) into its ZTNA framework for seamless application access and robust data security. By applying contextual policies based on user identity, application data, device, and location, it ensures efficient protection without disruption. Safeguard confidential data, including intellectual property, through encryption and dynamic masking, simplifying security while ensuring access to essential tools.

Brazil Temporarily Halts Meta's AI Data Processing Over Privacy Concerns

Brazil's data protection authority, Autoridade Nacional de Proteção de Dados (ANPD), has issued a temporary ban on Meta from processing personal data of users to train its artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms. This decision stems from concerns over inadequate legal justification, lack of transparency, and potential risks to privacy rights, particularly for children and adolescents.
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Six steps to protecting data in financial services companies

There is no shortage of news headlines about companies falling victim to cyber breaches and the astounding costs associated with them. According to the IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2023, the global average cost of a data breach in 2023 was $4.45 million, a 15% increase since 2020. For the financial services industry, the cost is even higher at $5.9 million per breach; that is 28% above the global average.

Amazon S3 Data Protection: The Myths and the Facts

So, you’re all set up with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), because you’re looking for best-in-class solutions for your company’s structured and unstructured data. Smart. But there’s more to do. Here are some myths about your Amazon S3 data, the real story behind them. Phew! We’re glad you agree that your Amazon S3 data needs strong protection. Wise decision. Here’s where we can help with a faster, cheaper, better solution.

Continuous Data Protection: A Guide to Safeguarding Your Data

Modern businesses operate in a data-centric world, where every byte of information holds the potential to drive growth, innovation, and competitive advantage. But as our reliance on data deepens, so does our vulnerability. Cyberthreats are evolving at an alarming pace, natural disasters loom as ever-present risks, and the complexities of modern IT environments—from huge cloud infrastructures to containerized applications—demand a new approach to data protection.

The Best Apps for Doctors to Protect Information from Data Leaks

Did you know that in 2023, over 133 million healthcare records were breached? Healthcare has remained the most popular target for hackers and cybercriminals to attack. Why? These industries contain a huge amount of sensitive information, including: With such a vast amount of data at stake, tools for doctors should focus on privacy and security and help keep healthcare information safe from data breaches.

Train Your Own Classifier (TYOC) for Image Data Protection

Machine learning-based data loss prevention (DLP) file classifiers provide a fast and effective way to identify sensitive data in real-time, empowering organizations with granular, real-time DLP policy controls. Netskope Advanced DLP offers a wide range of predefined file classifiers, such as passports, driver’s licenses, checks, payment cards, screenshots, source code, tax forms, and business agreements.

Data breach vigilantes: CIAM and IGA for customer data protection

In today's digital battleground, it seems like a week doesn’t go by where we don’t hear about some kind of data breach involving identity security. It's easy to become desensitized to the constant stream of identity security compromises. Yet, beneath the surface, a silent war is waged against the very essence of our online identities. Each breach is a battle fought on the front lines of cybersecurity.

What you need to do to elevate your data protection

Data theft is a growing concern for companies and users alike. More and more attacks are being launched with the aim of gaining access to third-party data, and the number of people affected is on the rise. The unease organizations are experiencing over these threats is backed by the statistics. According to one report, 422 million people were victims of data theft in 2022.