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How Data Protection Applies to Zero Trust

Protecting data in the context of zero trust means moving beyond perimeter-based defenses to a model where no user, device, or application is inherently trustworthy. As a result, every access request is verified, continuously monitored, and limited to the minimum necessary permissions needed to perform a job function. This approach reduces the risk of insider threats, compromised credentials, and...
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The Definitive Guide to DLP - Healthcare Edition

As healthcare organizations struggle to keep up with non-stop threats coming from every angle, security professionals in those organizations are increasingly looking to data loss prevention (DLP) to protect their patients' personal health information (PHI). This comprehensive guide provides what you need to understand, evaluate, and succeed with DLP...
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5 Practical Tips to Protect Manufacturing Trade Secrets

Executives, security professionals, plant managers, and research scientists in the manufacturing sector have come to realize that their organizations' intellectual property (IP) and trade secrets are a hot commodity among cybercriminals. Whether it's a criminal organization, foreign government, a hacktivist, or an unsuspecting company insider, cyber...
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Achieving NYDFS Cybersecurity Compliance

Cybersecurity requirements for organizations regulated by the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) went into effect on March 1, 2017. The regulation established requirements that duplicate federal data protection obligations in some respects, but that also go beyond federal requirements in some important areas and “will likely...
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The White House's 2023 National Cybersecurity Strategy

The Biden Administration's 2023 National Cybersecurity Strategy is full of purposeful, forward-thinking ideas and objectives that, while well-intentioned, may feel like a daunting plan for organizations to interpret and implement. In this eBook, we break down what we consider to be the five pillars of the strategy:Defending critical...
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Definitive Guide To Protecting IP & Trade Secrets for Manufacturing Organizations

In the threat landscape of the past, organizations' mainframe environments often consisted of a single access point, one network, and a locked down ecosystem with a few logins, making data protection relatively straightforward.But today, the rate at which your employees are sharing confidential data often outpaces your team’s ability to patch the...
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2023 Zero Trust Security Report

Fortra's 2023 Zero Trust Security Report, in collaboration with Cybersecurity Insiders, reveals how enterprises are implementing zero trust security in their organizations, including key drivers, adoption trends, technologies, investments, and benefits. Some of our key findings include:...
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Dynamic Data Protection for Financial Services

When looking for industries with digital transformation-related woes, the financial services sector is often the poster child. Gartner’s predicts that by 2030, 80% of heritage financial firms will have gone out of business or have been completely commoditized. Moreover, for those that do survive, the rate of data breaches within financial services has...
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How to Protect Unstructured Sensitive Data

An organization’s sensitive information includes intellectual property, trade secrets, consumer information, and financial data. While protecting data from misuse is difficult, unstructured data types are often the hardest to manage. Unstructured data resides in documents, spreadsheets, and email messages, unlike structured data in databases and fixed...
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A Data-Centric Approach to Federal Government Security

For many cybercriminals, government agencies are the ultimate target. Agencies possess top-secret information on weapons systems, government contracts, and other sensitive information, including the personal data of individuals inside and outside those agencies. This guide outlines a data-centric approach to data protection for these agencies and...
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Meeting Stringent HIPAA Regulations

For nearly a decade, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has been increasingly aggressive in bringing enforcement actions against healthcare organizations who have had PHI compromised through data breaches.This guide outlines how an appropriate Data Loss Prevention solution can help healthcare organizations prevent hefty Health Information Portability...
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Data Protection Security Audit Checklist

Sophisticated cybercriminals have identified third parties as a lucrative back door to steal organizations' sensitive information. As a result, this sensitive data is now more at risk that it's ever been before, and organizations now increasingly need to prioritize completing security audits of any third-parties they work closely with.This Security...
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The Definitive Guide to Data Security

Your data security policies and processes have gaps—places where sensitive information can go astray and end up in the wrong hands. Today, most businesses construct information security as a series of metaphorical walls—protections and defenses surrounding applications, devices, networks, and online identities. Beyond those walls, we rely on each...
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The Ultimate Guide to Data Protection

The 5 Key Questions of Data Protection We live in a data-driven world. Some have dubbed data as the new oil. As the amount of data generated, mined, and stored grows at unprecedented rates, so increases the tolerance of leaving this data unprotected. Every security and privacy regulation, law, or standard includes requirements and best practices for data protection. This simple guide attempts to...