More employees are working from home and causing additional security challenges. In a recent Wall Street Journal article citing information concerning Apple.
5 reasons why organizations are switching
Health Share of Oregon, the state's largest Medicaid coordinated care organization, exposed personally identifiable information (PII) of 654,362 of its members, including names, addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, and Medicaid ID numbers.
Source code breaches are occurring daily with damaging consequences. Uber and Google made headlines when a former Google engineer easily exfiltrated 9 GB of source code and hundreds of Waymo trade secrets. Tesla source code was breached by an employee, exfiltrating over 300,000 files for personal gain. Apple and Samsun
CSC needed to ensure that their source code was not stolen or lost. A costly virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solution, was implemented to prevent misuse and add accountability for developers working with source code.
Data loss prevention (DLP), the antiquated data protection model, takes a ‘manage by rule’ approach where all data flows freely unless the security team has written a rule to specifically protect the data.
The second flavor of ransomware should only be an annoyance to organizations as a proper backup system should be able to restore to a point in time prior to the ransomware infection.
Over a week ago, security researchers Vinny Troia and Bob Diachenko uncovered four billion records on 1.2 billion people on an unsecured Elastisearch server.
With SecureCircle’s DASB, organizations can eliminate unauthorized application threats.
Cisco Systems sued former senior employees for stealing thousands of files containing confidential information.
A year ago, digital hygiene recommendations would have been updating your password, backing up your data, making sure all your apps & operating systems were upgraded.
FSC has been mandated to protect sensitive financial and personal information for mandatory compliance requirements. In particular, FSC wants to protect and track sensitive data as soon as it is accessed from their SQL databases and transformed into flat files stored on their file servers.
The secure solution to grant access to the house without giving up control requires a broker to decide when the door should be unlocked. With today’s modern physical security tools, biometrics grants access.
Today we can experience a whole new world of encryption due to a man who led the way in cryptography. Thanks to Whitfield Diffie and his invention of public-key cryptography, we started down a path to provide privacy over digital communications and commerce.
SecureCircle measures successful implementation in days and weeks. Our customers have complained that DLP and Information Rights Management (IRM) solutions have taken quarters to years to implement, if at all.
By deploying an opt-out, protect by default solution, organizations can reduce the amount of time spent on maintaining DLP solutions and reduce data breaches caused by incomplete, insufficient, outdated, or conflicting policy rules. SecureCircle's DASB prevents data breaches and insider threats.
One of the largest Original Design Manufacturer (“ODM”) companies in the world with design and manufacturing sites worldwide.
The New York law firm of Grubman Shire Meiselas and Sacks that serves some of the many well-known celebrities such as Lady Gaga, Madonna, Mariah Carey, and U2 appears to have fallen into a REvil ransomware attack.
CISOs and IT departments have growing demands and limited budgets. Free up money and resources by selecting the proper DLP solution.
SecureCircle's unique features and overall approach to data loss prevention allow organizations to protect data without impacting end-users or changing business workflow. Organizations can support a wide range of use cases such as accidental and malicious insiders, and more.
Mathway, a popular app to assist students with math, suffered a massive data breach. More than 25 million user records have potentially been sold on the dark web by hackers known as the ShinyHunters.
The New York City council demands an investigation to determine how the mayor's daughter's arrest record was released on Twitter. They believe there are two guilty parties; those who committed the privacy breach from NYPD and those who knew about it and did not notify any city officials.
The rate of internal threats is on the rise, leaving many organizations at risk. In some industries, they occur way more frequently whether it's accidental or malicious. The healthcare industry is one of the most commonly threatened.
Companies need to enable their teams to work remotely across the world, including work from home. Remote distributed workforces have grown 44% over the last five years.
VPNs (Virtual Private Networks) made headlines last week after the National Security Agency (NSA) warned corporations could be vulnerable to cyber-attacks if not correctly secured. The warning comes as organizations adapt to office closures, and employees continue to work from home.
CISOs and CTOs have almost given up on the idea that protecting the company crown jewels - source code - is possible. Legacy data protection solutions encumbered developers to the point developers refused to work.
Brazil initially passed LGPD (Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados) in 2018 to go into effect in February 2020. The implementation date pushed to August 16, 2020, which is about a month away. Is your company ready?
Millions of designers rely on Adobe Creative Cloud to share and collaborate with others on their work. Without proper protection, many designers risk their work being leaked to the public. This would allow anyone to view and claim the designs as their own.
Large enterprises have always been targets for hackers. Most hackers are mainly attracted to the massive amounts of capital and the customer base of large enterprises. According to the 2020 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, almost two-thirds of data breaches involved larger enterprises.
Often the terms data security and data privacy are misused or interpreted as the same thing. Since data security and data privacy are both essential components of data protection, it is vital to know the difference between the two. Think about it this way. You protect your house with a door. If the door is glass, does
The 2020 IBM Security Cyber Resilient Organization Report surveys more than 3,400 IT and security professionals from all over the world to determine their ability to detect, prevent, contain, and respond to cybersecurity incidents.
For an average hacker, small enterprises can be the perfect target. Many small enterprises tend to have less sophistication in their company's cybersecurity or assume that they are too small even to attract hackers.
Many of our customers have budgeted projects to improve or replace existing data protection solutions, so the ROI (return on investment) case has been made upfront.
Once again, a massive ransomware attack causes a global outage. Garmin, a sport and fitness tech giant reportedly paid millions of dollars in ransom after shutting down from the attack. The attack put Garmin’s wearables, apps, websites, and call centers offline for several days. The payment was presumed to be around $1
With all of the unexpected changes occurring in 2020, some things remain the same. For its 15th year, the Ponemon Institute has conducted research to produce the annual Cost of Data Breach report published by IBM Security. This report provides a detailed view of the financial impacts, and risks security incidents can h
When engaging with customers, we focus heavily on finding ways to help them on their journey to implementing a Zero Trust security strategy. We often hear concerns about ransomware protection. Our customers tell us that they see value in how we deliver security that persists with data regardless but ask how this helps
In today's world, it is ubiquitous for employees to abandon ship to board another one. It is also common for these employees to take confidential data with them when leaving. Data loss can become very damaging for the company, especially when the employee leaves for a competitor. Three former employers of McAfee left a
For many students, back to school session is right around the corner. Under the new circumstances of remote learning, students need to become aware of the importance of data security. School districts in the United States already have many cybersecurity shortcomings. Many lack the funding and skilled personnel to provi
Yet again, another case of leaked data has hit the web. Intel, the largest chipmaker in the United States is investigating a data breach that leaked 20 GB of internal data. The assortment of documents included some marked as confidential, under NDA, and unrestricted secret. Till Kottman, a swift software engineer share
