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Why Is a Data Classification Policy Absolutely Important?

Today, data is a valuable commodity. Without it, company executives cannot make well-informed decisions, marketers won’t understand their market’s behavior, and people...

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Data Breach

Foxit PDF Software Company Suffers Data Breach—Asks Users to Reset Password

If you have an online account with Foxit Software, you need to reset your account password immediately—as an unknown attacker has compromised...

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News

Google, Microsoft, Intel Join Hands With Linux Foundation To Protect Your Data

Major tech companies including Google, Microsoft, Intel, Alibaba, Arm, IBM, Red Hat, Baidu, etc., have come together to form the Confidential Computing...

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Data Security

What Is DCAP Gartner?

A term used by Gartner, DCAP means Data-Centric Audit and Protection. The main goal of DCAP Gartner is to protect the data...

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Privacy

3 Cases Against Google, Settled Out-of-Court

Google, together with its parent company Alphabet is one of the richest companies with the deepest pockets in existence today (maybe only...

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Data Breach

Sprint Data Breach Due To Samsung.com Bug Revealed

U.S. telecom giant, Sprint has recently revealed that a certain number of Sprint customer accounts were taken over by unauthorized users using...

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Privacy

Why PCI DSS Compliance Is Important For Smartcards?

As more and more people are conducting their everyday financial transaction needs through the use of smartcards, that is the reality on...

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Data Security

Windows 10 & Office 365 banned in schools and colleges in Germany for privacy issues

IT security services specialists report that the German Commission for Data Protection and Freedom of Information has stated that Microsoft services Windows...

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Data Breach

The Biggest and Most Affected Data Breach

There were many data breach 2016. It seemed like there was a new one in the news every other week during that...

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News

What Is a SaaS Company Business Model and Benefits

We’ve often heard about it, but what is a SaaS company? SaaS means “Software as a Service,”so basically, this is an organization...

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Privacy

Defining Role-Based Access Control, or RBAC

Role-Based Access Control, or what is simply known as RBAC, provides the ability to restrict access to certain systems based on the...

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News

TD Bank and Ford Internal Files Exposed On the Internet

TD Bank and Ford are just a few of the companies whose data was exposed by three Amazon S3 cubes that belong...

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Infosec

Most Important Checklist for Security Leakage Before Initiating Data Migration in Your Organization

Security leakage is a great concern when it comes to data migration. It not only hampers organizational reputation but can jeopardize the...

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Data Breach

Data Breach Hits Desjardins, 2.7 Million People Affected

A data breach that hit the Desjardins Group has affected around 2.7 million people. Reports say that more than 40 percent of...

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Data Breach

MongoDB 4.2 Introduces End-to-End Field Level Encryption for Databases

At its developer conference held earlier this week in New York, the MongoDB team announced the latest version of its database management...

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Privacy

What is HIPAA Compliance?

HIPAA Definition The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is a bill that was signed by then-President Bill Clinton in 1996....

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Ransomware

The Feasibility Of Tape Backup Against Ransomware

As ransomware continues to become complex year-after-year, there is only one weapon to overcome the challenge raised by cybercriminals – backup system....

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Incidents

Massive personal and financial data leaking in a major U.S. financial company

Web applications security specialists reported the discovery of millions of records on the servers of a major financial services company. Exposed information...