11 June, 2019 |
Ryan Brooks
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...
6 June, 2019 |
Ryan Brooks
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...
12 March, 2019 |
Ilia Sotnikov
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...
29 November, 2018 |
Ryan Brooks
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...
