The need for secure email attachments The massive work from home shift many of us experienced this year brought an elevated wave of cyber crime. We turned to home networks, and sometimes Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), for work, school and community interaction. And, we relied on email as a universal platform for sharing some of …
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It’s time for the biggest cybersecurity conference in the world. RSA 2020 runs next week at San Francisco’s Moscone Center. VERA is once again excited to be a part of this definitive annual gathering of leading-edge minds who are advancing solutions to cyber threats. VERA gets to the heart of why security professionals come to …
As we close out National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM), there’s one final element of this year’s theme to explore. How do you protect all of your data regardless of where it resides in applications and on devices without sacrificing business productivity? The answer is found in prioritizing data with advanced security controls. Security becomes increasingly …
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October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM). Now in its 15th year, this annual event is an important reminder about our personal and professional cyber hygiene and the technology that now forms the foundation of society and life as we know it. This year’s NCSAM theme is Own IT. Secure IT. Protect IT. — and …
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We’re excited to be showcasing VERA at BoxWorks 2019 October 3-4th in San Francisco! Cloud-based content is central to any successful digital business, and Box is a leading platform in cloud content management. That’s a perfect match for VERA’s data-centric content security solution. Any modern business relies on collaboration – internally as well as with …
This week we saw a huge uptick in data breaches caused by misconfigured cloud and network storage servers. The most recent incident was reported by Davey Winder at Forbes. The files included credit card and medical data, as well as intellectual property patents, and were discovered by the Digital Shadows researchers across the cloud, network-attached …
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A New Decade Brings a Focus on Privacy and More Privacy Laws The month of May brings us the anniversary of GDPR and there is no shortage of more privacy laws that are in the works. The California Consumer Privacy Act takes effect on January 1, 2020, and has the potential to make big changes …
This week’s “weekly top 5” is a special edition, highlighting the anniversary of GDPR. It’s now been one year since GDPR took effect and there is no evidence of it slowing down. In fact, it’s caused a ripple effect as more data privacy legislation is being brought forth in an attempt to better manage the …
Cisco Data Privacy Report With the onset of more stringent regulatory compliance around data privacy, like GDPR, it’s refreshing to see such an in-depth report on the subject. This report doesn’t just talk about the importance of adhering to regulatory requirements, but the fact that companies should go beyond compliance and actually care about protecting …
Here’s a quick round-up of this week’s top data security news There is a lot going on in data security news this week. We saw another ElasticSearch database that was left open and it exposed several million data points of personally identifiable information (PII). This is one of the numerous breaches of ElasticSearch just in …
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