In the wake of evolving work arrangements, the spotlight often falls on remote and hybrid employees as potential threats to data security. Yet, our latest research uncovers a surprising twist in the narrative. It’s the in-office employees, traditionally considered the safest bet, who are now leading the charge in corporate data exfiltration.

On Wednesday, March 6th, 2024 the US Attorney’s Office of Northern California announced that a federal grand jury had indicted Linwei Ding on four counts of trade secrets theft. Ding was arrested in Newark, California and now faces up to 10 years in prison and a fine of $250,000. We did a deep dive into the indictment to understand what happened and help security leaders and practitioners apply lessons to their own information security practice. Read on to learn more!

Welcome to our Data Security Innovators series, where we talk to security practitioners who are navigating the frontiers of security with novel processes and technologies. In this episode, we speak to Kheun Chan, Principal Security Architect at Iron Mountain. Iron Mountain is renowned as one of the world’s best secure information storage and management services, with 95% of the Fortune 1000 as customers of the company.

The AI revolution that kicked into overdrive last year has taken the world by storm, and as the development and productization of Large Language Models and other AI technologies continue – the revolution shows no signs of slowing down.

To celebrate the end of 2023 and the beginning of 2024, we are happy to announce a collection of product updates to more robustly and securely protect your company’s data. Read below to discover what’s new!