‍ In my previous blog, I shared details about the global proliferation of data privacy regulations, including the fact that at least 10% of U.S. states will be covered by stronger data privacy regulations by the end of 2023. However, an interesting trend has emerged: Newer regulations such as the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and Brazil’s Data Protection Law (LGPD) all regard employees’ personal data as highly-sensitive.

In 2023, an estimated five quintillion bytes of data will be created daily. While this data revolution is exciting, it also raises questions about data privacy. In response to that challenge, more regions, localities, and countries will implement additional data privacy laws in the coming years to ensure the safety of individuals’ data.

Imagine doing business in a bubble. You are an international company only allowed to make decisions using data collected within your country and by your business unit (BU). You also cannot share data with subsidiaries or third parties. It would be challenging to conduct day-to-day business, let alone innovate and grow. Fortunately, this isn’t the state of business today. Organizations transfer trillions of data points across borders daily.

Are you still relying on legacy backup systems to protect your business from cyber attacks? If so, you might want to think twice. Cyber attacks have become so common that 98% of security and IT leaders reported that they dealt with at least one in the last year. Relying on legacy backups as a defense against cyber attacks is not only ineffective but also obsolete in today's rapidly evolving threat landscape.

Recently, archTIS worked with fellow Microsoft Intelligent Security Association (MISA) member, Thales to integrate NC Encrypt with CipherTrust Manager. MISA members are top experts from across the cybersecurity industry with the shared goal of improving customer security. Both companies offer advanced data security for the Microsoft Purview Information Protection suite and worked together on a joint solution for customers aiming to achieve digital sovereignty.

The Nightfall platform is lauded by customers for its high accuracy detection of sensitive data across a variety of cloud environments. This helps users save time by only surfacing the most relevant and most critical instances of sensitive data exposure. We’re always looking for ways to continue to build value in this area, and many of our feature updates like our new PHI detector and enhanced secrets detection releases accomplish this.

For the last two years, we’ve been quietly building a new kind of static application security testing (SAST) solution that allows security and engineering teams to assess, prioritize, and remediate security risks and vulnerabilities in their code by what matters most - sensitive data. Today, we are officially announcing its release as an Open Source project, Bearer.

archTIS is proud to announce we have been recognized as a Microsoft Security Excellence Awards Privacy and Compliance Trailblazer Finalist for our unique solution for solving Defense requirements for the safe handling of and application of visual markings for sensitive, Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) and classified data.