Today’s business landscape means having various business partners. From contractors to technology vendors, third parties are now part of everyone’s daily operations. However, with every new third-party you onboard, you also add a new risk. Supply chain attacks compromise your data, even if the third-party isn’t providing you a technology solution. To secure your data, you need to identify and classify high-risk third parties.

Software and Data Integrity Failures is #8 in the current OWASP Top Ten Most Critical Web Application Security Risks.

Server-Side Request Forgery is #10 in the current OWASP Top Ten Most Critical Web Application Security Risks.

With the ever-evolving landscape of email security services comes the ‘question’… ‘what are the top email security gateway services’? Our website analytics show that this term is searched for more regularly than most other general searches. A key indicator is that many top email gateway services brands have been tried and tested previously…market research is required to check for innovation – Is there anything you haven’t tried?

The trend of global data breach events is steep and still continuing to tilt upwards. According to the latest data breach investigation report by IBM and the Ponemon Institute, data breach costs in 2021 have reached a record high. Last year, the average cost was US$3.83 million, and this year it has peaked at US$4.24 million. Mitigating these events involves comprehensive management of the entire attack surface, including the third, and even fourth-party vendor network.

An intrusion detection system (IDS) is a software application or hardware device that detects vulnerability exploits, malicious activity, or policy violations. IDSs place sensors on network devices like firewalls, servers, and routers, or at a host level. Once the IDS detects any cyber threats, the system will either report this information to an administrator or a security information and event management (SIEM) system collects it centrally.

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Modern-day product development is highly complex. This is because industry competition has driven enterprises to focus mainly on their core competencies while they outsource other activities to their partner organizations specialized in such activities. Therefore, in today’s diversified global economy we find that almost all enterprises operate with their operations dispersed across internal productions and external partners.

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.