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2023 Zero Trust Security Report

Fortra's 2023 Zero Trust Security Report, in collaboration with Cybersecurity Insiders, reveals how enterprises are implementing zero trust security in their organizations, including key drivers, adoption trends, technologies, investments, and benefits. Some of our key findings include:...
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Dynamic Data Protection for Financial Services

When looking for industries with digital transformation-related woes, the financial services sector is often the poster child. Gartner’s predicts that by 2030, 80% of heritage financial firms will have gone out of business or have been completely commoditized. Moreover, for those that do survive, the rate of data breaches within financial services has...
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How to Protect Unstructured Sensitive Data

An organization’s sensitive information includes intellectual property, trade secrets, consumer information, and financial data. While protecting data from misuse is difficult, unstructured data types are often the hardest to manage. Unstructured data resides in documents, spreadsheets, and email messages, unlike structured data in databases and fixed...
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A Data-Centric Approach to Federal Government Security

For many cybercriminals, government agencies are the ultimate target. Agencies possess top-secret information on weapons systems, government contracts, and other sensitive information, including the personal data of individuals inside and outside those agencies. This guide outlines a data-centric approach to data protection for these agencies and...
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Meeting Stringent HIPAA Regulations

For nearly a decade, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has been increasingly aggressive in bringing enforcement actions against healthcare organizations who have had PHI compromised through data breaches.This guide outlines how an appropriate Data Loss Prevention solution can help healthcare organizations prevent hefty Health Information Portability...
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Data Protection Security Audit Checklist

Sophisticated cybercriminals have identified third parties as a lucrative back door to steal organizations' sensitive information. As a result, this sensitive data is now more at risk that it's ever been before, and organizations now increasingly need to prioritize completing security audits of any third-parties they work closely with.This Security...
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The Definitive Guide to Data Security

Your data security policies and processes have gaps—places where sensitive information can go astray and end up in the wrong hands. Today, most businesses construct information security as a series of metaphorical walls—protections and defenses surrounding applications, devices, networks, and online identities. Beyond those walls, we rely on each...
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Why Zero Trust Needs Data Classification to Work

Zero Trust has been one of the cybersecurity industry's favorite buzzwords for a few years and for good reason; it's emerged as a legitimate strategy that—assuming the correct groundwork is laid—can help effectively guard against threats and strengthen an organization’s security posture....
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The Ultimate Guide to Data Protection

The 5 Key Questions of Data Protection We live in a data-driven world. Some have dubbed data as the new oil. As the amount of data generated, mined, and stored grows at unprecedented rates, so increases the tolerance of leaving this data unprotected. Every security and privacy regulation, law, or standard includes requirements and best practices for data protection. This simple guide attempts to...
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MSP Vendor Evaluation Toolkit

This toolkit is designed to help you navigate the vendor selection process quickly and efficiently, so you have the information you need to select the solution that best fits your organization’s unique requirements.What can you do with this toolkit?Identify the critical problems that your MSP solution needs to solve.Identify which tasks you would like to manage in-house and which tasks you would...
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5 Steps to Effective Data Protection

Every day, businesses create more and more data. Data gets saved, employees move on, data gets saved, but then that data becomes forgotten and gets lost. Valuable information sits on your file servers and document stores, unprotected and unrecoverable because no one knows where to find it. Using a data classification solution helps regain control over your unstructured data. By involving your...
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6 Cybersecurity Thought Leaders on Data Protection

If you were asked to tally up the value of every asset in your organization, while it might be a daunting task, it would be relatively achievable. Every asset has a tangible value, whether it's the office furniture or equipment, right down to the fixtures. Even employee salaries can be calculated against sunk costs, depreciation, and amortized value. However, the value of the data on which the...
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How Digital Guardian Helps Organizations Overcome 7 Data Protection Challenges

As the world faces cyber challenges previously unknown, the field of data protection needs to keep pace with the exploits of today. The burgeoning of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and large language models has created new obstacles in an already complex environment filled with hyperconnected machines, hyperdistributed workflows, and an infinitely expanding attack surface.Many...