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...
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a new global standard designed to codify and extend the rights of data subjects. The GDPR comes into force on May 25, 2018 and will replace the European Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC (DPD) effective now. GDPR fines can reach 10 million euros...
1 December, 2016 |
Alex Vovk
The recent announcement that up to 20,000 of Tesco Bank’s customers have had their money stolen during a sophisticated cyber-attack is a warning sign for the entire industry. This is probably the largest data breach that the UK’s banking sector has ever faced, which may have far-reaching...
17 November, 2016 |
Russell Smith
Windows Information Protection (WIP) provides organizations with a set of features to support a Mobile Device Management (MDM) system and enable separation of corporate and personal data to prevent leaks. In this article, I'll explain how WIP works.
Why Use WIP?
As corporate data becomes...
