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How to Protect Structured and Unstructured Data

Security Boulevard

Every effective PII protection effort addresses three critical imperatives – data discovery, access governance and risk mitigation. IT teams grappling with privacy mandates need to consider these factors across their unstructured and structured data contexts.

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

eSecurity Planet

When assessing the overall security of cloud storage and choosing a solution tailored to your business, it helps to determine its features, potential risks, security measures, and other considerations. CSP collaboration improves the security environment where there’s a need to mitigate the emerging risks quickly and comprehensively.

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Data Governance Trends Report Reveals Securing Customer Data is Top IT Priority, Content Sprawl is Major Concern

CyberSecurity Insiders

Companies are struggling with how to get a handle on the vast amounts of unstructured data they generate, and this is going to continue as the new hybrid work model proceeds into 2022. They also rate these among the hardest to secure. 25% of all IT leaders say this is their biggest worry.

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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. Ensure robust cybersecurity measures and protocols.

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Predictions for 2023 API Security

CyberSecurity Insiders

Hackers have identified APIs as the Achilles heel in organizations’ cybersecurity posture and are using them to steal data, commit fraud, and create havoc in the marketplace, among other aims. More than half of all data thefts were traced to unsecured APIs as of 2020, according to Gartner – and the problem is only getting worse.

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Five Key Points When Preventing Cybersecurity Attacks in a World of Hybrid Working

Security Boulevard

From an operational perspective, this will make for a happier and more productive workforce, but it does throw up some additional cybersecurity challenges. There are many things to consider for cybersecurity teams when protecting a hybrid working environment, but these are our top five: . The nature of hybrid working. Featured: .

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7 Step Data Loss Prevention Checklist for 2021

CyberSecurity Insiders

Being an essential part of data protection, the process of data inventory involves data discovery and data classification, helping organizations to understand, remediate, and manage privacy risks. Understand when data is at risk. You need to know what actions increase the risk of data loss.