Protecting intellectual property (IP) and trade secrets is critical to a company’s bottom line. Keeping IP and sensitive business-critical information within the confines of the company and its employees is not always possible, especially in the manufacturing industry. Vendors must often share previews of new products with retailers and distribution partners before release.

Regularly reviewing user permissions is important to reduce the risk of data overexposure and breaches. Overpermissioned users pose a significant security risk. Restricting access to only necessary information for individuals to perform their jobs can significantly reduce risk. By conducting regular permissions audits in Microsoft 365 and SharePoint, organizations can ensure that sensitive information access remains appropriate, safe and secure.

While the days of swashbuckling pirates terrorizing the seven seas may be long gone, modern data pirates abound in the vast cyber seas. They set out to steal your company’s crown jewels – data. Today’s document management systems are filled with treasure ready for the taking, from personal data to credit cards and intellectual property worth billions. But beware, your motley crew can pose just as significant a risk as the pirates roaming the cyber seas.

Data governance and protection are crucial in safeguarding sensitive information. Proper classification and data labeling is essential to ensure that the right people access the right information. Failure to implement these practices can result in data breaches, financial loss, and harm to an organization’s reputation.

Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 are among the leading cloud services globally, but their limited Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) capabilities pose potential data security and compliance issues for organisations that must comply with the EU and global data sovereignty laws. Increased government concern over protecting sensitive personal, business, government and defence data in the Cloud has led to a complex regulatory landscape that aims to maintain control of citizen and government data.

The Defence supply chain is a network of interrelated companies, services, and products that transform raw materials and information into goods and expertise for military materiel applications. Given the scale, breadth, and complexity of bringing so many different stakeholders and activities together, the risks that a supply chain presents can be challenging to define and manage.

In today’s rapidly evolving cyber threat landscape, organizations, particularly those within the public sector and defense industries, face unprecedented challenges in securing sensitive data and ensuring regulatory compliance. The need for a comprehensive, cloud-based productivity and collaboration suite that empowers teams and meets stringent security and compliance requirements has never been greater.

Friends and Colleagues, We are proud to share that archTIS has won the 2023 Australian Defence Industry Award for Cyber Business of the Year for the second year running. We are humbled to once again be recognised by our peers and industry leaders for the valuable contributions and leadership role archTIS has taken in solving the critical Defence challenge of securing sensitive and classified information sharing.

As increased cyber threats and regulations governing the handling of sensitive personal data, government and defense data are enacted, the ability to automate the discovery, classification and protection of sensitive information is critical across enterprise content management systems. To this end, archTIS recently extended NC Protect’s capabilities to support NetApp ONTAP to ensure we support a wide range of enterprise platforms.

The volume of data moving to and collaborating in the cloud has spurred government concern and oversight over protecting sensitive personal, business, government and defence data. Data sovereignty is the concept of a country or jurisdiction having the right to govern and control digital data collection, storage, processing, and distribution within its borders. Organisations operating across international borders must comply with the rules of each country/jurisdiction where their data resides.