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Data-Centric Approach Starves Data-Hungry Cybercriminals

Data-Centric Approach Starves Data-Hungry Cybercriminals
  • In a slideshow recently published in IT Business Edge, breaches within healthcare organizations hit an all-time high in 2015. With healthcare records growing in value, cybercriminals have realized they can get a quick payout by hacking this confidential information and selling it to other malicious actors or groups. Healthcare organizations have become easy targets because they tend to place more emphasis on compliance rather than important security measures. Meeting the letter of the law...
  • In a slideshow recently published in IT Business Edge, breaches within healthcare organizations hit an all-time high in 2015. With healthcare records growing in...
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STOP, Collaborate and Listen: Where Employee Vulnerabilities Put Data at Risk

STOP, Collaborate and Listen: Where Employee Vulnerabilities Put Data at Risk
  • Ron Arden, Executive Vice President and COO of Fasoo, Inc., recently drafted a byline for InfoSec Island that highlights the risks employees pose in their most natural environment – the office – through collaboration with their co-workers.  Email, instant messages, file transfers, and digital downloads can all expose vulnerabilities to an organization’s high-value data yet in an office environment these tasks are constantly happening.  These behaviors can put sensitive data at risk. Some organizations...
  • Ron Arden, Executive Vice President and COO of Fasoo, Inc., recently drafted a byline for InfoSec Island that highlights the risks employees pose in...
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Sometimes Employees Are Just As Much of a Risk as Malicious Attackers

Sometimes Employees Are Just As Much of a Risk as Malicious Attackers
  • Data from our Ponemon study, “Risky Business: How Company Insiders Put High Value Information at Risk,” was recently cited in Tara Seal’s Infosecurity Magazine article, “US House Recommends ‘Zero-Trust’ Model for Insider Data Access.” The article referenced the statistic that 72 percent of surveyed organizations are not confident in their ability to manage or control employee access to confidential documents and files. This leads to the actions of careless employees being the primary cause...
  • Data from our Ponemon study, “Risky Business: How Company Insiders Put High Value Information at Risk,” was recently cited in Tara Seal’s Infosecurity Magazine...
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Concerned about Print Security?

Concerned about Print Security?
  • Information security is a tough business.  As technologies evolve and businesses seek to use technology advancements as a competitive edge to be more productive, more efficient and to provide better service to their customers, the bad guys are also innovating with more ingenious ways to get at valuable digital business information.  Security postures are often re-evaluated to add new layers of technologies to deal with new and existing threat gaps. As this process dynamically...
  • Information security is a tough business.  As technologies evolve and businesses seek to use technology advancements as a competitive edge to be more productive,...
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Halting the Threats Within

Halting the Threats Within
  • The headlines today still focus on hackers and other malicious outsiders trying to steal your sensitive data or disrupting your business, but the reality is that insider threats are the biggest challenge to enterprise security. People with knowledge of your network and systems have a decided advantage when it comes to deliberately or accidentally sharing information with unauthorized users.  Whether it’s a dissatisfied employee looking to make a buck, a retiring worker copying files...
  • The headlines today still focus on hackers and other malicious outsiders trying to steal your sensitive data or disrupting your business, but the reality...
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Keep Your High-Value Information Close, and Your Employees Closer

Keep Your High-Value Information Close, and Your Employees Closer
  • I recently wrote an article for Corporate Compliance Insights that focused on the importance of organizations taking proactive steps to safeguard high-value corporate data from internal and external vulnerabilities. High value information such as trade secrets, product designs, financial data and customer data can change hands often within an organization, including among people who may not need access to this confidential material. It is the sole responsibility of that organization to protect the data...
  • I recently wrote an article for Corporate Compliance Insights that focused on the importance of organizations taking proactive steps to safeguard high-value corporate data...
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You Really Need Persistent Data Protection

You Really Need Persistent Data Protection
  • Despite significant security investments made by organizations, data breaches of sensitive information continue at an alarming rate. There are many contributing factors to this situation such as the ever increasing rate of data collection as well as cloud computing, outdated security standards and controls, and flawed applications with security vulnerabilities. Today’s bad guys are well funded, skilled and organized. When they set their sights on something like personal health information (PHI) or intellectual property...
  • Despite significant security investments made by organizations, data breaches of sensitive information continue at an alarming rate. There are many contributing factors to this...
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Fasoo Presents to Ponemon RIM Council

Fasoo Presents to Ponemon RIM Council
  • Bill Blake, President of Fasoo, Inc., joined Dr. Larry Ponemon in a presentation on July 20, 2016 to the Ponemon RIM Council of the findings from the recent Ponemon Institute survey “Risky Business: How Company Insiders Put High Value Information at Risk”.  Bill and Larry discussed numerous points highlighted in the survey including how to deal with careless acts by employees and contractors that can ultimately result in a data breach. The Ponemon RIM...
  • Bill Blake, President of Fasoo, Inc., joined Dr. Larry Ponemon in a presentation on July 20, 2016 to the Ponemon RIM Council of the...
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EU-US Privacy Shield and the Future of Data Protection

EU-US Privacy Shield and the Future of Data Protection
  • The European Commission adopted the EU-US Privacy Shield on July 12, 2016 as a replacement for the Safe Harbor rules that were overturned by the European Court of Justice in October 2015.  This new framework protects the fundamental rights of anyone in the EU whose personal data is transferred to the United States as well as bringing legal clarity for businesses relying on transatlantic data transfers. The new EU-US Privacy Shield is an example...
  • The European Commission adopted the EU-US Privacy Shield on July 12, 2016 as a replacement for the Safe Harbor rules that were overturned by...
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