Data Security Blog

2021 continues to be a year of training for businesses of all sizes regarding their IT Asset Management and IT Asset Destruction processes. The new threats from a workforce now working remote have forced many companies to wonder, quite frankly, who is touching their stuff. The dangers of not knowing could be anything from negligent…

Personally Identifiable Information (PII) refers to any information maintained by an agency that can be used to identify or trace a specific individual. In other words, it includes data points, such as social security number, date of birth, mother’s maiden name, biometric data, tax identification number, race, religion, location data and other information, that can…

Data protection regulations require your business to assess all possible threats to the sensitive data your business stores or manages. While most businesses tend to focus most of their attention on external threats, they often overlook insider threats that exist right under their collective noses. Although the market is flooded with cybersecurity solutions that promise…

Insider threats are among the most dangerous cyberthreats out there. Yet, organizations of all sizes seem to be either reluctant or negligent when it comes to fighting them. Over 50 percent of organizations don’t have an Insider Risk Response Plan and 40 percent don’t assess how effectively their technologies mitigate insider threats.1 Even though 59…

The year 2020 witnessed an unprecedented onslaught of cybersecurity threats across the world as the global workforce underwent a forced transition to remote working. However, not all cybersecurity threats come from the outside. In a study conducted by Bitglass, 61 percent of businesses surveyed reported at least one insider-related cybersecurity incident in the last year.…