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The latest News and Information on Data Security including privacy, protection, and encryption.

4 Components of Modern Data Classification & Protection Infrastructure

Data privacy is top of mind for every organization, with individuals wanting reassurance that their data is secure at all times. With the ever increasing number of cloud applications on the market today, security teams are faced with the challenge of keeping track of compounding volumes of sensitive data that can flow internally, externally, and across systems.

A Definitive Guide to Security Analytics

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.

Welcome to Nightfall's Engineering Blog

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.

4 Ways to Automate Controlled Access to Sensitive Data

Controlling access to sensitive data is tough. Be too restrictive, and your employees run into too many roadblocks to do their jobs effectively. Too loose, and you are effectively guaranteeing that your organization will find itself on the front page as a victim of one of the many data breaches happening every day. That is why it is important to craft an effective data security strategy: one that relies on automation and oversight to ensure the privacy of your users’ data.

A Better Approach to Data Privacy with Truyo and Egnyte

If you receive a Data Subject Access Request (DSAR) today, what will you do? How does your organization respond to a request from a customer who wants to know what personal data you have and how you use it? What if a customer requests the “right to be forgotten”? How do you know you have deleted every instance of personal data from all locations in your company? Will you be able to respond quickly and completely?

Simulating Filesystem with Billions of Files: Part 1

Rubrik can gracefully backup hosts with petabyte-scale filesystems containing around a billion files. It took us focused effort and innovation, both in scaling existing systems and verifying the changes work before shipping to our customers. One of the innovative systems that helped us achieve this scalability is the FileSystem Simulator.

Cloud Threats Memo: Manage Your Leaky Public Cloud Misconfigurations

A new day, a new wave of S3 leaks… Cloud misconfigurations continue to be a major concern for organizations and a constant source of data leaks. A recent report by IBM has revealed that misconfigurations are behind two-thirds of cloud security incidents.

Nightfall Achieves Compliance with SOC 2 Type 2 Standard

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.

Protect sensitive data in customer conversations with Nightfall's Intercom DLP Scanner

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.