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January 2023

What is Data Room Due Diligence and Why Should You Care?

You have to wonder about modern technology that makes life much easier for you and your employees when going through not only business processes but in everyday life as well. You can take a look at a virtual data room that has been created specifically for going through due diligence. This will be your starting point for your journey into modern technology.

Data Privacy Laws Organizations Cannot Ignore in 2023

Data privacy has become a hot-button issue in recent times, leading to the implementation of stringent laws governing who can collect information and how it is accessed. Governments across the world are increasingly turning their attention towards ensuring data protection for citizens. Non-compliance of regulations can be catastrophic for any organization.

Identifying and securing your business's dark data assets in the cloud

The world runs on data. That has always been true, but the power of data has perhaps never been greater than it is today. We live in the great age of information — where a seemingly infinite repository of knowledge lies at our fingertips. But data is not, of course, only to be consumed for personal use. Indeed, the greatest impact of data is on the world of business. Data is the fuel that keeps the engines of enterprise humming.

5 Tips To Keep in Mind for Data Privacy Day

No matter what industry you’re in, data privacy is an issue that impacts you. And when it comes to being safe online with sensitive data, whether that’s your personal data or sensitive data that is important to your organization, being informed is the first step. With that in mind, ahead of Data Privacy Day on January 28, we asked a handful of Netskopers from our CSO, internal security, and Netskope Threat Labs teams to provide tips around data privacy that they think everyone should know.

Data Security That Lets People and Businesses Prosper

Lookout believes that data security is not just about locking down sensitive information. It’s about setting it free. By giving businesses and individuals greater control over their data, we unleash its value. Everyone can connect and work effortlessly, without worrying about exposure. At Lookout, we’re creating the future of data security. That’s prosperity and peace of mind for all. To learn more, visit Lookout: bit.ly/3PcUTtZ

BYOD Security: Using ABAC to Manage Access to Sensitive Data

The concept of Bring Your Own Device, or BYOD, has been adopted by organizations wanting to take advantage of the benefits. BYOD allows employees to use their personal devices to connect to their business networks and access work-related resources using smartphones, personal laptops, tablets and USB keys. But is a BYOD strategy good for security? Along with the benefits come increased BYOD security risks that require mitigation.

Third Party Risk from Supply Chain Attacks Will be Gift that Keeps Giving in 2023

Last month, over the holidays, we witnessed multiple vendors experience security breaches of varying levels of severity. From LastPass and Okta to Slack and CircleCI, the news has been filled with headlines reporting on the aftermath of these incidents. We wanted to briefly cover these stories and discuss their implications for you in the current year.

Nightfall Enables Advanced Secret Detection with Enhanced Machine Learning API Key Detector

Compromised secrets and credentials are the most common cause of data breaches and are often left unmanaged. In the past year alone, we’ve seen sustained growth in supply chain attacks and security incidents impacting the security of secrets stored in code repos or unknowingly shared within SaaS applications. Because of this, there is a compelling need for reliable, accurate, and actionable secrets detection for modern organizations.

Nightfall's New PHI Detector Improves Security Automation for Healthcare Orgs

With Nightfall’s enhanced PHI detection capabilities, which are based on an advanced combination of logic and context, it is very easy to identify specific instances of PHI unique to organizations. What’s even better is that all of this can be automated and tie seamlessly into existing customer workflows.

Data Classification: Your 5 Minute Guide

It’s old news, but data is – and will remain for the foreseeable future – king. It has to be dealt with and handled responsibly, assigned to the right boxes, and stored properly. Why? Because everyone wants it, and there are increased efforts to obtain it by ever-more sophisticated and subtle bad actors. You wouldn’t put a piece of junk mail in a high security vault. Nor would you trust a crown jewel to a locked desk drawer.

Understanding Australia's SLACIP and SoNS Requirements for Critical Infrastructure

The Australian Security Legislation Amendment (Critical Infrastructure Protection) Act 2022 (SLACIP Act) and Systems of National Significance (SoNS) regulations are aimed at improving the resilience and risk management practices of Australia’s Critical Infrastructure sector and making it easier for organisations and governments to securely share information.

Can You Unlock Data And Eliminate The Risk Of Data Loss?

Companies accumulate massive amounts of data, whether it is intellectual property or customer and employee information. Data is a critical asset: it’s undeniable. If your business users have appropriate access to data, they can perform their jobs more efficiently and effectively, and they can analyze the data to derive key business intelligence that drives better business decisions. But if data isn’t protected from breaches, it can also be a liability.

How Filling Your Cybersecurity Gaps Increases Your Bottom Line

Cyberattack prevention and remediation cost time and money. Are there ways to get a better return on your cybersecurity investments? What business processes or technologies will not only reduce those cyber risks but also save you time or money? This piece addresses those questions with a focus on data breaches.

The Ultimate Security Checklist to Launch a Mobile App in Nigeria - iOS & Android

Nigerian authorities have made great strides in data security, and businesses worldwide are taking notice. If you're planning to launch a mobile app in Nigeria, it's crucial that you understand the importance of app security and take steps to ensure that your app meets Nigerian data privacy requirements. We’re aware that data protection can be overwhelming as it requires a holistic approach that incorporates legal, administrative, and technical safeguards.

Understanding the basics of Cloud Security: What is Zero Trust & Why does it Matter?

Cybersecurity professionals are tasked with the difficult job of protecting their organization's data from malicious actors. To achieve this goal, zero trust security has become an essential tool for organizations. But what exactly is zero trust? In this post, we’re going to separate signal and noise by disambiguating the term zero trust. We’ll talk about what it is, why it matters, and key takeaways you should have regarding the state of cybersecurity in 2023.

Preventing the Theft of IP and Military Secrets

A common topic in our blog is the threat that insiders pose to an organization’s sensitive data. Why? ‘Insider threats’ continue to pose the biggest threats to intellectual property (IP) and military secrets. Insiders, including contractors, need access to sensitive information to do their job, but to what extent? How can we prevent sensitive information from being exfiltrated by malicious insiders?

How Does Keeper Protect Your Data? Security and Transparency.

Keeper Security’s zero-trust and zero-knowledge encryption model ensures that even in a worst case scenario, all of the contents of your Keeper vault would be protected with multiple layers of safeguards and encryption. Keeper has stood by its commitment to protect your most valuable data for more than a decade, through our best-in-class security model and transparent approach to sharing it with the public.

Centralized Log Management for the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA)

The financial services industry has been a threat actor target since before digital transformation was even a term. Further, the financial services organizations find themselves continuously under scrutiny. As members of a highly regulated industry, these companies need to comply with various laws to ensure that they effectively protect sensitive data.

Make Zero Trust Data Access Your New Year's Resolution

As you look back on the state of cybersecurity in 2022 and set your security priorities for 2023, Zero Trust Data Access should top your New Year’s Resolutions list. Zero trust was probably the most talked about security trend last year and for good reason – it is clear no matter how much we layer our defenses hackers, malicious insiders and simple negligence are impossible to eradicate.

Data Insights for Parenting...and Cybersecurity Teams

I am often struck by the similarities in the skill set required for both parenting and cybersecurity. With children—as with employees—it is much easier to keep everyone safe if you have a little bit of visibility into what’s actually going on. The hardest child to parent effectively is one who shuts themselves away in their bedroom, operating in isolation and giving no clues as to the risks they may be exposing themselves to.

Managing risk in the age of data privacy regulation

Protecting data from theft and improper use has long been the domain of cybersecurity and IT executives. But today, this is also a very real concern for the C-suite and, in many cases, the board of directors, all of whom are well aware of the repercussions of a data breach and failing to comply with regulations.