Security News

Data loss prevention strategies for long-term remote teams
2021-02-05 06:00

Employees commonly and inadvertently compromise company data through poor password hygiene, accidental data sharing, improper technology use, phishing scams, and more. Some employees will also act maliciously, intentionally stealing company data for profit, retribution, or fun.

NVIDIA Gamers Face DoS, Data Loss from Shield TV Bugs
2021-01-20 20:45

NVIDIA has newly disclosed three security vulnerabilities in the NVIDIA Shield TV, which could allow denial of service, escalation of privileges and data loss. The NVIDIA Shield TV is a set-top gadget that acts as a hub for the smart home, streams PC games from a gaming PC to a TV; and allows local and online media playback and streaming.

Mozilla Firefox disabling backspace key to prevent data loss
2021-01-06 17:25

Mozilla Firefox is disabling the browser's backspace key to prevent users from accidentally losing data typed into forms. In 2014, Google removed the ability to go back to a previous page by using the backspace key as it could cause the loss of data entered into forms on the current page.

CipherCloud helps prevent unintended cloud misconfigurations that lead to data loss
2020-12-15 02:00

This new offering enables CipherCloud customers to prevent unintended cloud misconfigurations that lead to data loss, while enabling more consistent compliance with industry standards such as GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA and PCI. Delivered as an integrated component of the market-leading CASB+ solution, CipherCloud CSPM and SSPM directly address the leading cause of cloud security and data breaches - unseen cloud configuration errors. In the Gartner 2020 "Magic Quadrant for Cloud Access Security Brokers" CipherCloud was highlighted for market-leading CSPM/SSPM capabilities suitable to replace stand-alone tools.

Veeam Backup for AWS 3: Minimizing the risk of data loss for data on AWS
2020-12-09 01:30

Veeam Software announced the general availability of new Veeam Backup for AWS v3 - a fully automated and native backup and disaster recovery solution built on Amazon Web Services, designed to effortlessly provide additional protection and management capabilities for Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute and Amazon Relational Database Service. Veeam Backup for AWS, a standalone AWS backup and recovery solution for protecting data on AWS. Veeam Backup & Replication, unifying AWS backup and recovery with other cloud, virtual or physical data and unlimited data portability to, from and across clouds.

Palo Alto Networks introduces Enterprise Data Loss Prevention
2020-11-11 02:00

Palo Alto Networks introduced Enterprise Data Loss Prevention-a cloud-delivered service that brings a fresh, simple and modern approach to data protection, privacy and compliance. "Data breaches are a huge and growing problem worldwide, but the existing legacy and point solutions are not accessible, appropriate or effective for many of the companies that need them," said Anand Oswal, senior vice president and general manager, Firewall as a Platform, Palo Alto Networks.

Armorblox, Box and Slack to stop targeted attacks and data loss across cloud office platforms
2020-06-19 01:30

Armorblox, a cloud office security platform that protects inbound and outbound enterprise communications, announced the availability of integrations with Box and Slack to stop socially engineered attacks and data loss across email, messaging, and file-sharing services. In addition to API-based integrations with Office 365, G Suite, and Exchange, these new integrations extend Armorblox capabilities beyond email to prevent targeted attacks and sensitive data disclosures across cloud office applications.

Dell: Cost of data loss per organization surpassed $1M in the past year
2020-03-12 13:00

Within the last 12 months, the total cost of data loss has reached an average of more than $1 million per organization, Dell Technologies found. Despite businesses managing nearly 40% more data than they were a year ago, the majority of professionals said their current data protection solutions aren't good enough.

Preventing insider threats, data loss and damage through zero trust
2019-11-25 07:00

With the proliferation of mobile devices and BYOD, ubiquitous and always available internet connectivity and the widespread use of private, public and hybrid cloud solutions, eventually all...

Code42’s Data Loss Protection solution now integrates with Box
2019-10-04 01:00

Code42, the leader in data loss protection, announced its Code42 Next-Gen Data Loss Protection solution includes a new integration with Box, a leading cloud content management platform. Code42’s...