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Insights and opinions on data protection, privacy and cybersecurity contributed by thought leaders from around the world.

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Cyber Security Insights

Shining Light on NIST and Its Influence on SaaS Security

July 3, 2023

NIST’s Guide to a Secure Enterprise Network Landscape released in November 2022 examines the shift from on-premise networks to multiple cloud servers. Although the guide doesn’t address SaaS applications directly many of the principles it discusses can be applied to the SaaS ecosystem.

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Cyber Security Insights

Overcoming the Challenges of Securing Unstructured Data

July 5, 2023

Securing an organization’s unstructured data can be a significant challenge. Unstructured data is more difficult for an organization to monitor and track and is commonly in formats designed to move freely in and out of the organization.

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Cyber Security Insights

Defending Your Organization Against Internal Threats

July 7, 2023

Insider threats are on the rise. What's worse, these threats often fly under the radar for months before they're caught. To prevent an insider threat is to proactively identify and mitigate insider risks. Data and user monitoring tools can be critical by revealing how insiders use data in real-world workflows.

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Data Privacy Insights

The Age Verification Law That Could Change Social Media in the US

July 10, 2023

Age verification laws will require social media platforms to collect more of your personal information, from your birth certificate to your school records to biometrics. The process may expose you to more privacy threats, such as potential data abuse, data leaks, and identity theft.

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Cyber Security Insights

Why Mobile App Security and Monitoring Are Vital for Mobile App Developers and Publishers

July 11, 2023

Mobile app developers are realizing that with in-app security they can exceed third-party on-device security that relies on blacklists by only allowing the app to communicate with whitelisted servers. Mobile apps need constant monitoring and closeknit, developer-driven protections against today’s clever cybercriminals.

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Cyber Security Insights

The Importance of Effective Asset Management in Today’s Cloud Environments

July 12, 2023

By prioritizing asset management, organizations can enhance their security posture, optimize existing security investments, and meet compliance requirements, ultimately safeguarding their digital assets and operations in the cloud, on-prem, or hybrid environment.

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Cyber Security Insights

New Security-by-Design and -Default Guidance Consolidates Best Practices

July 14, 2023

CISA's new security-by-design and security-by-default guidance was released in collaboration with multiple other security agencies in the US as well as ones in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, Germany, and the Netherlands, formalizing the principles at an international level for the first time.

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Cyber Security Insights

The New Cybersecurity Is Data Security

July 17, 2023

Data security has increasingly become a key aspect of cybersecurity because of the large amounts of data being generated, stored and shared by both individuals and organizations. The shift from cybersecurity to data security indicates a more holistic approach to protecting sensitive data in organizations.

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Cyber Security Insights

What Do We Do Now? The Immediate Aftermath of Declining Ransomware Demands

July 19, 2023

Declining a ransom payment demand can leave the business at a standstill. Companies achieve better outcomes when they have a strategy and pre-defined path to act instantly and decisively to restore systems, resume operations, and defend against additional actions.

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Cyber Security Insights

Addressing Mobile Spyware Will Take More Than a Broad Federal Ban

July 21, 2023

Mobile spyware is not a threat that will lessen anytime soon. Mobile devices present an attack surface that is ripe for threat actors. To mitigate the mobile security risk at its root, organizations need to employ an agent on the devices they manage that analyzes applications installed and the SDKs within them.

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Insights

Overcoming the Challenges of Securing Unstructured Data

Defending Your Organization Against Internal Threats

Why Mobile App Security and Monitoring Are Vital for Mobile App Developers and Publishers

New Security-by-Design and -Default Guidance Consolidates Best Practices

The New Cybersecurity Is Data Security

What Do We Do Now? The Immediate Aftermath of Declining Ransomware Demands

Addressing Mobile Spyware Will Take More Than a Broad Federal Ban

Lead EU Cybersecurity Agency to Receive Early Access to Mythos AI

Who Will Break Who: Microsoft or Mythos?

Commercial Location Data Used to Track Deployed U.S. Military Across Theaters of Operation

Carnival Cruise Data Breach Exposes Nearly 6 Million People in Cyber Attack Linked to ShinyHunters