Data Security

Apps used to be fun add-ons to get the most out of your phone. Today, they’re vital to our everyday communication, work and play. Sadly, it seems like every week, there’s another list of bad apps causing headaches or putting your security at risk. Phony cryptocurrency and financial apps are scammers’ latest grift. Tap or click for red flags that the app you’re about trust your money with is a sham.

As a 23-year-old, I’d circle the names of much older CEOs who worked at companies like IBM, EMC, Alcatel or Nortel to learn more about what they were doing. The companies were building mainframe-to-server replication technologies, IP switches and nascent web/security services on top. Flash forward 22 years and, in...

Users should not ultimately be the ones responsible for protecting their data, as the long, cryptic privacy settings on many apps suggest, researchers conclude in a new study. In reality, we have almost no power over our data and who uses it for what, according to the study. The entire...

Encrypt all devices — because work is an activity, and people are on the move. People are working from anywhere and often use their own devices for work purposes. As a part of our series about “5 Things You Need To Know To Optimize Your Company’s Approach to Data Privacy and Cybersecurity”, I had the pleasure of interviewing Santosh Devaraj, CEO and founder TrustGrid Pty.

The powerful 3 features upgrade user’s password safety against theft, data breaches, and cyberattacks. As recent figures show that an alarming 90% of Internet users are worried about getting their passwords hacked. Data security company, IDStrong, launches three vital Identity Protection tools that help people check password strength, generate hard-to-crack passwords, and even scan the depths of the dark web to find out if their credentials have been stolen and/or sold on the black market.

In an ideal world, technology would maximize individual benefits while also protecting privacy. But in practice, the pivot to digital-first healthcare has sometimes left personal information vulnerable to attack – as evidenced by the recent spike in targeting of health systems. One example of this paradigm, says Dr. James Angle,...

Demonstrates Company’s commitment to data security, confidentiality, and availability. UiPath, a leading enterprise automation software company, today announced that it has successfully completed SOC 2 Type 2 System and Organization Controls (SOC 2) examination for UiPath Automation Cloud in accordance with attestation standards established by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA).

Andres Rodriguez is founder and CTO of Nasuni. We have entered an unusual new age of security. The Colonial Pipeline incident, which cut off a major source of fuel for the Eastern United States, was a reminder that bad actors are operating within our borders. They might not have physical boots on the ground, but malicious independent groups can access and disable critical systems. They can shut down major hospitals and infrastructure. They are here, and they are powerful.

The pandemic has resulted in a big shift in working practices with large numbers of employees abandoning their customary offices for kitchen tables, garden offices and spare bedrooms. For those organizations that had not already fully embraced remote working, home working and a more agile workforce pre-pandemic, there was a desperate scramble to deploy remote solutions, including SaaS, cloud, hosted or remote access to on-premise – or possibly a hybrid of all of these options.

When ransomware hit Colonial Pipeline’s networks in May, the whole world knew about it within days. Similarly, when meatpacking company JBS suffered a ransomware attack later that month, the news was made public almost immediately. It’s hard to hide cyberattacks that shut down fuel pipelines or meatpacking plants, but neither company had any legal obligation to report the intrusions as quickly or publicly as they did. In fact, in the United States, many cybersecurity incidents don’t have to be reported at all unless they involve the breach of personal information.

Half of CISOs say their organization’s desire for growth and rapid digitalization is detrimental to data security in the cloud. Netwrix, a cybersecurity vendor that makes data security easy, announced additional findings on cloud security challenges from its global 2021 Netwrix Cloud Data Security Report. The top challenges to securing...

Pre-pandemic, most organizations had digital transformation projects in place for migrating their workloads to more modern, cloud-based infrastructures. When the pandemic hit, these digital transformation projects didn’t necessarily change. However, the onslaught of acute challenges brought on by the pandemic caused organizations to dramatically accelerate their digital transformation and infrastructure modernization plans. Suddenly grappling with the necessity of remote work, thinner operating margins and evolving customer needs, organizations recognized a savior in fast, nimble and relatively affordable cloud technology.

Nowadays, blockchain and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are the two hottest topics to discuss. Both technologies have their issues and challenges to face but researchers and developers have been rolling out to find the solutions by combining AI with blockchain technology. If these technologies are applied together, there will be a...

Symmetry Systems, provider of cutting-edge Data Store and Object Security (DSOS), announced a $15 million Series A funding round led by Prefix Capital and ForgePoint Capital, two premier venture funds investing in foundational and transformative technologies. The investment will support the company’s rapid growth in revenue, customers, and employees. This...

“Keep your eyes on the goal.” Artificial intelligenceis a powerful tool that scares many people, mainly because of how Big Tech has used it in the past. However, when you design AI applications with privacy in mind, you see a whole new potential that this technology holds. It is innovation in its ideal form, not guided by profit or any ulterior motive.

Click to learn more about author Paolo Filippelli. A wealth of interesting technologies and methodologies has arisen in recent years under the “cloud-native” umbrella name, and their impact in our lives as developers has been very deep. We were once used to having big monolithic applications, hosted on enterprise application...

The fallout from the DarkSide ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline on May 7 caused apparent disruption in parts of the ransomware ecosystem. Several ransomware operators, including GOLD WATERFALL, the group behind DarkSide, announced suspensions or changes to its affiliate operations. Some underground forums, including RaidForums, banned discussion and promotion of ransomware.

Increased availability and adoption of 5G technology means a more connected world, which in turn means more users with a greater variety of devices. While this means that IT security teams will have more to manage, many of the leading security vendors have been planning for 5G for years. Organizations...