Tag: Data breach

Data breach prevention is a top priority for organizations of all sizes and across all sectors. A breach of sensitive information — whether it’s personal information like credit card and Social Security numbers, or proprietary information like intellectual property or financial forecasts —...

Financial services company Capital One suffered a breach that exposed the data of roughly 100 million individuals in the U.S. and approximately 6 million people in Canada. The breached data included 140,000 U.S. Social Security numbers, 80,000 bank account numbers, and 1 million Canadian Social...

Data breaches are all over the news, and organizations are acutely aware that even if they have achieved PCI compliance or SOX compliance, new compliance  regulations like the GDPR demand more stringent data security controls. To help you improve your security and compliance posture, we have put...

Many businesses rely on innovation and knowledge to beat the competition and achieve success. Their intellectual property (IP) is often their most valuable asset, and they consider it to be highly sensitive information. There are different types of intellectual property; they include copyrights,...

More than ever, digital data security is on the agenda in many organizations. The focus on protection of sensitive or critical data, such as intellectual property and personal data, is a result of growing cyber risks and increasingly stringent data security regulations. Today, protecting...

The Netwrix 2018 IT Risks Report presents new research into the security threats organizations are facing and the actions they are taking to minimize IT risks. The report explores six IT risks: physical damage, intellectual property theft, data loss, data breaches, system disruptions and compliance...

Persuading non-IT personnel to respect information security policies and report on incidents has always been a challenge. Unfortunately, new research shows that there is still no cooperation between regular workers and IT departments in the UK. Overall 60% of respondents consider their colleagues...

In late January, we learned that millions of financial records were leaked from Texas-based data firm Ascension because its contractor, a New York-based document management startup, had misconfigured several Elasticsearch and Amazon S3 storage servers, leaving them with no password...

Data breach definition and types A data breach, or data leak, is a security event in which protected data is accessed by or disclosed to unauthorized viewers. A data breach is different from data loss, which is when data can no longer be accessed because of a hardware failure, deletion or other...

Originally published April, 2018 and updated June, 2019 The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a global standard designed to codify and extend the rights of data subjects. It came into force on May 25, 2018, replacing the European Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC (DPD) effective...