Security analytics has become an increasingly popular field as more and more organizations take a different tact to cybersecurity. Historically, IT teams focused on prevention and protection, but today’s priority is detection. Hackers tend to use a wide range of ever-changing tools to exploit vulnerabilities. It can feel like whack-a-mole to constantly try to defend against evolving threats.
From our beginnings as childhood friends to coming up together in the tech industry, Isaac and I would catch up on our adventures as professionals working in Silicon Valley: him in the VC world, and me as an engineer at Uber Eats. We’re both very interested in entrepreneurship, so we would always come back to discussing various business ideas, including a topic we’d both become intrigued with — the existing challenges enterprises faced with cloud data security.
Nightfall, the leading cloud-native data protection platform, has successfully achieved Service Organization Control (SOC) 2 Type 2 compliance. Nightfall is the first cloud-native data loss prevention vendor to complete this certification and meet the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) criteria for managing customer data.
Chat and messaging systems have helped customer experience teams expand and improve the services they offer through instant communications. As customers reach out to your business via platforms like Intercom, they can often share personal information like personally identifiable information (PII), credentials, email addresses, and credit card numbers (for PCI compliance) in their messages.
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When your customers reach out for help, they send messages to your support team that likely contain personal information. Help desk ticketing systems can often harvest for personally identifiable information (PII) like email addresses and credit card numbers, while healthcare providers using ticketing systems may request protected health information (PHI) like patient names and health insurance claim numbers or phone numbers.
During the pandemic, healthcare and education providers scrambled to adapt to providing services remotely, using tools like Slack, Google Drive, and Zoom to continue connecting with patients and students. McKinsey tracked a spike in the use of telehealth solutions in April 2020 that was 78 times higher than in February 2020. And, by some estimates, more than 1.2 billion children worldwide were impacted by school closures due to the pandemic — some of whom were able to learn remotely.
Nightfall has added remediation actions for Google Drive violations, so you can fix the issue automatically or with just a click. Nightfall for Google Drive is one of our most popular integrations, helping customers to discover and classify sensitive data across Google Drive. Once sensitive data violations are found to exist in Google Drive, you want to take steps to protect the data – because removing the risk is really the point, isn’t it?
According to a recent CNBC report, Google has seen a rise in posts flagged for racism or abuse on its message boards. This has caused the company to ask its employees to take a more active role in moderating internal message boards. That’s one way to handle content moderation. But, it also takes an employee’s time and attention away from higher-value tasks. Many companies address instances of internal harassment through training and stronger HR policies.
Every year, business owners grapple with the same question: how can I keep my data safe? One survey found that 47% of small business owners found data security to be their biggest challenge; a further 42% said preventing data loss was also keeping them up at night. Data loss prevention is a clear priority for enterprises of all sizes.
