Nov 02
Data encryption like a safe with a lock. Imagine if you had a big strong lock on the front door of your house. And inside, to protect your valuables, you had a big strong safe with all the latest security features. You’d probably feel pretty secure. You’d sleep well at night. Now imagine if the key to your front door and the key to your safe were one and the same key....
Oct 18
Businesses and associations need to take a broader look at cybersecurity, ensuring that the tools they deploy now are still viable solutions in 2020. Cybersecurity is now an issue on everyone's radar, from businesses to governments to consumers. This is great news, as the world has finally realized just how vulnerable their personal and corporate data really is -...
Oct 12
Data protection issues have come center stage as organizations move from legacy applications to those that store and manipulate data in a hybrid environment. Previously, IT security specialists sought to protect the boundaries of their networks and provide reliable perimeter security. Anything inside the perimeter was trusted and what was outside was not. This mindset led...
Jul 05
Personal data protection has quickly risen to the top of consumers' priority lists, as people around the world continue to witness or experience data breaches of increasing magnitude. Personal data protection has quickly risen to the top of consumers' priority lists, as people around the world continue to witness or experience data breaches of increasing magnitude. ...
May 11
People in charge of ensuring data privacy policies have an increasingly hard task. Your employees want to use mobile devices to access data. Data storage in the cloud is inexpensive and convenient. At the same time you want to keep customer and employee data secure and you face tough privacy laws. The conflicting issues directly affect your business. If competitors have...
May 11
Sensitive patient records held by healthcare organizations have to be stored and processed securely, both to guard the patients’ privacy and to comply with government regulations. As a healthcare provider responsible for patient information, you have to be able to detail what measures you are taking to safeguard patient data and you have to show that these measures are...
Mar 10
Mitigating the Risk of Data Breaches with Tokenization When handling sensitive data such as financial records or personal health information, companies must reduce the risk of data breaches to a minimum by addressing possible sources of risk. Without a comprehensive strategy for reducing data breach risks and mitigating their effect, companies risk damaging their...
Mar 07
Protecting your client data and be compliance with Data Privacy Laws is one of the main concerns for SMEs. SMEs face particular conditions when they set out to use IT to streamline their operations. Some key conditions are Their IT budgets are small, and they may not have very specialized manpower They may not have the capability to implement complex security solutions ...
Mar 01
Tokenization is the process of replacing a sensitive data element with a random equivalent, referred to as a token that has no extrinsic or exploitable meaning. The token is a reference that maps back to the original sensitive data through a tokenization system. Both original sensitive data and token are stored encrypted in a secure database. Reversing this process by...
Feb 28
As increasing amounts of critical and sensitive data comes to be stored with businesses and consequent to some situations where significant amounts of data have been lost or stolen, regulatory pressure to ensure protection of sensitive data continues to increase. As new threats are discovered, we can expect regulations to get tighter. Requirements will continue to change...
