Data Security Blog

A secure and compliant work environment is what data protection regulations worldwide mandate your business to build and maintain. It must be secure enough to mitigate as many risks as possible and be compliant with every single rule/guideline listed in the regulation. The most important aspect to remember is that these regulations take into consideration…

Over the last few years, we have seen several tech companies, such as Buffer, Todoist, and Help Scout, to name a few, switch to a fully remote or partial work setup. Most of these companies spent months preparing for the switch by training their employees, setting up remote work policies, and ensuring the necessary infrastructure…

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed everything about the world as we know it. Just as we started embracing new practices like sanitizing, social distancing, and remote working, the pandemic has also forced us to embrace systemic changes in the ways we deal with cyberthreats. The FBI has reported an increase in cyberattacks to 4,000 per…

Complying with ​data privacy and protection ​regulations wouldn’t give several business owners sleepless nights if it only meant installing a predefined list of security solutions. Compliance goes way beyond this and for good reason. In principle, regulators, local or international, want businesses to: assess the type of data they store and manage gauge the potential…

Global data protection regulations (new or updated) are being enforced aggressively, resulting in a tsunami of hefty fines and penalties handed out to violators. The majority of these violations are a result of the failure to conduct regular ​risk assessments​, which form an integral part of the ‘appropriate measures’ a business must take to ensure…