The title of Chief Information Security Officer, or CISO, emerged during the 1990s as the first large-scale cyber attacks started to occur. Since then, it's become a near-ubiquitous role in any large ...

Information has always been a form of currency in society—from buying favors to building connections and generating financial gain. Businesses rely on information; now more than ever. The more data ...

Cybercrimes are increasing at an accelerated rate. To put things into perspective, by 2025, the cost of cybercrime is predicted to hit a whopping $10.5 trillion annually. Statistics like these reveal ...

To safeguard enterprise data in hybrid cloud environments, organizations need to apply basic data security techniques such as encryption, data-loss prevention (DLP), secure web gateways (SWGs), and ...

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End-of-life data management, be it deletion of what is no longer required, or data removal from hardware before it’s decommissioned, may not get the attention that data loss through breaches generates ...