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MY TAKE: The no. 1 reason ransomware attacks persist: companies overlook ‘unstructured data’

The Last Watchdog

All too many companies lack a full appreciation of how vital it has become to proactively manage and keep secure “unstructured data.”. One reason for the enduring waves of ransomware is that unstructured data is easy for hackers to locate and simple for them to encrypt. A few takeaways: Outside a database.

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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. It contains elements of both organized and unorganized data.

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Predictions for 2023 API Security

CyberSecurity Insiders

Prediction #2: Leaders will see APIs as representing both security and business risks. The need to protect business operations, customers, and data will be a key driver for organizations to implement API security platforms. Prediction #4: Organizations will right-size data storage to reduce risks.

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Best Encryption Software for 2022

eSecurity Planet

Trend Micro Endpoint Encryption encrypts data on PCs, Macs, laptops, desktops, USB drives, and removable media. It is available as a separate agent and combines enterprise-wide full disk, file/folder, and removable media encryption to prevent unauthorized access and use of private information. Trend Micro. Key Differentiators.

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Top Threat Intelligence Platforms for 2021

eSecurity Planet

What sets FireEye apart from the competition is how its platform tailors strategic intelligence to an organization’s corporate risk management and business goals by providing highly-contextual data so users can align security strategies to respond to the most likely threats taking aim at an organization. AT&T Cybersecurity.

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Microsoft just upgraded Sentinel with an AI-powered data lake - here's how it works

Zero Day

Microsoft Sentinel , a proprietary Security Incidents and Event Management (SEIM) platform, which debuted in 2019, now comes with a data lake -- that is, a centralized repository that can store structured and unstructured data without any kind of reformatting. 

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Avoid these seven sins to stay out of data privacy hell

SC Magazine

Organizations need complete visibility into all sensitive data and where it gets stored to protect it and avoid privacy breaches, compliance risk, fines, and penalties. Data constantly changes and infrequent manual data mapping approaches with spreadsheets and emails are error-prone and time-consuming.