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Best Encryption Software for 2022

eSecurity Planet

It’s been a couple of decades since data tapes delivered by trucks made encryption a standard enterprise cybersecurity practice. Yet even as technology has changed, sending and receiving data remains a major vulnerability, ensuring encryption’s place as a foundational security practice. What is Encryption?

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The Impacts of Data Loss on Your Organization

Security Affairs

Examples: Customer Personal Identifiable Information, transactional data, inventory records, and financial statements. Unstructured Data: Unstructured data, on the other hand, is characterized by its lack of organization and predefined format. Without adequate backups, the data they house can be lost forever.

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How to Keep Your Information Safe for Data Privacy Day 2020

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Namely, they should implement encryption, key management and identity and access management (IAM) to help preserve the privacy of their stored data. Encryption. An organization’s digital security strategy would not be complete without encryption. A Streamlined Data Security Strategy. Key Management.

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How Machine Learning Can Accelerate and Improve the Accuracy of Sensitive Data Classification

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Part of this process includes identifying where and how data is stored—on-premises, in third-party servers or in the cloud. While an organization might already know the location of structured data such as a primary customer database store, unstructured data (such as that found in stray files and emails) is more difficult to locate.

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How Secure Is Cloud Storage? Features, Risks, & Protection

eSecurity Planet

According to Unitrends’ 2019 cloud storage research, 62% of respondents had successfully recovered data from the cloud. This trend is expected to increase as Gartner projects a threefold rise in unstructured data capacity by 2026. The increased scalability of cloud storage can assist effective data recovery solutions.

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Best 5 Privacy Management Tools for 2024

Centraleyes

Hackers use more sophisticated methods to break network defenses and steal sensitive data on a large scale. Malicious actors target personal data because of its value. They use this data to steal identities and access corporate accounts. The consequences of data breaches go beyond financial impact.

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How to Comply with GDPR, PIPL, and CCPA

eSecurity Planet

Also Read: China’s Data Privacy Law Poses Challenge for International Companies. Organizations need to understand all of the data they store and collect as well as where they’re storing it. Categories for all of your organization’s data: Not every piece of information will be relevant to CCPA and require the same level of security.