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​​In the past few years, India has experienced rapid digitalization and increased mobility, resulting in numerous benefits. However, this has also expanded the scope of threats and vulnerabilities. The increasing number…

Data security safeguards digital information from unauthorized access, theft, and misuse through access controls, encryption, and DLP. It differs from data privacy, which governs how data is collected and shared. Effective…

Internal threats cause nearly half of data breaches and often stem from human error or negligence. Common risks include phishing, data mishandling, shadow IT, unauthorized device use, and theft of company hardware. Training,…

Linux has come a long way since its humble beginnings as Finnish student Linus Torvalds’ pet project. With over 27.8 million lines of code to its name and its rise as the OS of choice for servers, public cloud, and supercomputers,…

Nowadays, most businesses work with a mixture of device types and operating systems. Cross-platform Data Loss Prevention (DLP) solutions help to diminish cybersecurity vulnerabilities in heterogeneous IT environments…

Accounting firms routinely collect sensitive information from both clients and employees. This data often includes personally identifiable information (PII) such as social security numbers, national ID numbers,…

The adoption rate of Mac computers in the enterprise has steadily increased over the last decade as companies began introducing choose-your-own-device (CYOD) and bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies. According…

In the last decades, digitalization efforts have forced businesses to build increasingly complex systems to manage the mounting number of computers and devices operating on office premises. These company networks have,…

Health information is among the most sensitive categories of data. Collected in high volume and stored in systems that are often vulnerable, health data has become an attractive target for malicious outsiders. The rise…

New data protection regulations require organizations a much stricter focus on data security and make data inventory a critical component for ensuring compliance. The amount of digital data continues to grow exponentially,…

In the last decade, as digitalization efforts swept all sectors, data, and sensitive data, in particular, have become an increasingly valuable commodity, attracting the attention of both cybercriminals and legislators.…

As companies around the world scramble to roll out remote work strategies in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, some organizations are better prepared for it than others. The tech sector, in particular, has long embraced…

As social distancing and self-isolation become the norm across the globe in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, companies are encouraging their employees to work from home. While some have long adopted remote work strategies…

Since it was launched in 1985, Microsoft Windows has been the dominant operating system for endpoints the world over. And while its popularity has waned in recent years, as macOS pushed into the enterprise and Linux released…

As macOS gains ground in the enterprise due to the increasing adoption of bring-your-own-device (BYOD) and corporate-owned personally-enabled (COPE) policies, the security of the devices running it is often overlooked.…

The beginning of the New Year is a time when many companies consider the most pressing issues they have to solve in the upcoming year. With 2017 turning out to be one of the most taxing years for data security in memory, 2018 will…

When it comes to data protection and regulatory compliance, most of the organizations are not taking into consideration all risk factors that could hinder the security process. The lack of awareness and preparation can…

We use the word “enterprise” for a good reason. Big companies or enterprises with more than 500 employees represent complex ecosystems with incredible resources, structures and more importantly, substantial know-how…

With actual real-life successful implementations in many industries, we have to stop talking about the Internet of Things as an innovation of the future, a next generation technology. IoT is already here, it is changing…

Black Friday is that day of the year when consumerization is at its peak. Everybody is searching for bargains, many even take a day off and, in many US states, it has been declared a public holiday. That means something. The shopping…