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Data Protection Legislation Around the World in 2021

January 8, 2021October 11, 2023 Compliance Data Loss Prevention

2020 brought several major developments in the world of data protection legislation. Most notably, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) came into force in January in the United States and the Court of Justice of the…

Work from Home Overview 2020

January 6, 2021January 6, 2021 Data Loss Prevention Work From Home

2020 was a dramatic year for the work landscape, with the COVID-19 pandemic forcing companies to adopt work from home policies to keep their employees safe and support national efforts to fight the spread of the virus. Sectors…

China’s Personal Information Protection Law: What We Know So Far

December 23, 2020December 24, 2020 Compliance Data Loss Prevention

On 21 October 2020, China’s Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress published the first draft of the Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL) for public comment. The PIPL is China’s first attempt to integrate…

Macs in the enterprise: macOS now on AWS

December 21, 2020April 5, 2021 Data Loss Prevention Macs in the enterprise

In an exciting turn of events for Apple developers, Amazon has announced that, for the first time, macOS will be available on its Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. As of 30th November 2020, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)…

A Look at Data Breach Statistics in 2020

December 11, 2020April 13, 2021 Compliance Data Loss Prevention

2020 has proved to be a challenging year from all points of view. With the health crisis brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic disrupting the worldwide economy and crippling both large and small businesses, cybersecurity …

The Endpoint Protector 5.2.0.9 Series: What’s New in eDiscovery and Enforced Encryption?

December 10, 2020 Data Loss Prevention Encryption

After introducing the Device Control and Content Aware Protection modules’ improvements, here comes the third and last part of our series presenting the updates of the eDiscovery and Enforced Encryption modules. Our latest…

How DLP Helps Media Companies

November 30, 2020May 11, 2022 Compliance Data Loss Prevention Media

The advent of global online streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime have boosted media productions across the world. Original content is being created for the platforms not only in the US, but in places as wide…

The Endpoint Protector 5.2.0.9 Series: What’s New in Content Aware Protection?

November 27, 2020November 27, 2020 Content Aware Protection Data Loss Prevention

Our major product update, Endpoint Protector 5.2.0.9 has been released, bringing compatibility with Apple silicon processors, a new kextless agent and zero-day support for macOS Big Sur, as well as introducing new key…

Singapore’s Amended Personal Data Protection Act Passed in Parliament

November 20, 2020 Compliance Data Loss Prevention

On 2 November 2020, the Singapore Parliament passed amendments to the country’s Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA). It was the first time the law was reviewed and changed since it was enacted in 2012. At the time, it was one…

The Endpoint Protector 5.2.0.9 Series: What’s New in Device Control?

November 20, 2020November 8, 2023 Device Control

We’ve recently released a major product update, and we thought it’d come in handy to let you know more about the improvements added to Endpoint Protector 5.2.0.9. In this article, we’ll cover the upgrades of the Device Control…

Australian Government Kicks off Privacy Act Review

November 18, 2020 Compliance Data Loss Prevention

On 12 December 2019, the Australian Government announced that it would conduct a review of the Privacy Act 1988 as part of its response to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s (ACCC) Digital Platforms…

Zero-Day Support and Kextless Agent for macOS Big Sur by Endpoint Protector DLP

November 13, 2020 Data Loss Prevention Macs in the enterprise

First introduced in June 2020 at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, macOS Big Sur (version 11.0) was officially released yesterday. The seventeenth major release of macOS, brings not only a refined new design but…

Endpoint Protector Supports Apple Silicon

November 11, 2020November 11, 2020 Data Loss Prevention Macs in the enterprise

During the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2020, Apple announced its intention to transition Macs from Intel chips to its own Apple silicon processors starting in late 2020. Similar to the A-series chips used in…

We’ve just released a major product update. Check out Endpoint Protector 5.2.0.9

November 9, 2020December 15, 2020 Data Loss Prevention

An important upgrade of Endpoint Protector, our enterprise-grade Data Loss Prevention (DLP) solution for Windows, macOS, and Linux computers, is officially out. The latest version of our multi-OS solution, Endpoint…

DPO vs. CPO: Compliance Roles at Glance

October 30, 2020February 18, 2026 Compliance

While compliance and data protection have been around for some time, especially in fields such as finance and health, they have always been bundled together into legal and information security roles. The rise of increasingly…

Macs in the Enterprise: How to Secure Data at Rest

October 26, 2020May 12, 2022 Data Loss Prevention Macs in the enterprise

Data at rest refers to all data stored on devices that are not transferred from network to network or device to device. It includes data saved locally on computer hard drives, archived in databases, file systems, and storage…

The Cost of a Data Breach in 2020

October 16, 2020March 25, 2026 Data Loss Prevention

The global average cost of a data breach decreased slightly in 2020, reaching $3.86 million/breach, down 1.5% from 2019, according to the Cost of a Data Breach report 2020 released by IBM and the Ponemon Institute. Companies…

How Does Encryption Help to Protect Business Data

October 12, 2020September 2, 2022 Data Loss Prevention Encryption

Protecting sensitive data has become a requirement for most organizations around the world as data breaches have become increasingly common, and legislation spearheaded by the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation…

Endpoint Protector at the First-Ever Virtual JNUC 2020

October 8, 2020December 10, 2020 Events

The biggest conference for Apple administrators, the Jamf Nation User Conference (JNUC) 2020 took place last week, between September 29 – October 1, 2020. Relaunched as a complimentary virtual event over the original…

Brazil’s LGPD is now in effect

October 2, 2020August 26, 2021 Compliance

In a surprising turn of events, Brazil’s Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados (LGPD), Latin America’s first major data protection law, went into effect this month after hopes that the COVID-19 pandemic would push the introduction…

What is Deep Packet Inspection? How it Works and Why It Is Important

September 25, 2020February 18, 2026 Data Loss Prevention

Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) analyzes the contents of network packets to detect threats, manage traffic, and enforce security policies beyond basic header filtering. When combined with Data Loss Prevention, DPI helps…

How Endpoint Protector Keeps Data Secure on DaaS Platforms

September 18, 2020January 6, 2021 Data Loss Prevention Work From Home

The COVID-19 pandemic took many organizations by surprise. Faced with the need to quickly scale-up their remote work capabilities in a cost-effective way without compromising security and performance, many companies…

What are the Privacy Challenges of Cloud Computing?

September 14, 2020March 24, 2022 Data Loss Prevention

Cloud services have become an integral part of business operations. In an increasingly interconnected world, they support real-time collaboration, access to files, and the use of applications from anywhere, as long as…

Endpoints, the New Data Security Frontier in the age of WFH

September 7, 2020December 1, 2023 Data Security

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,…