A Data leak pandemic in the making?

The healthcare industry leads the way in data breaches For 11 years running, the healthcare sector has succumbed to the costliest data breaches of all sectors. Its total average data breaches in 2021 alone cost US$9.23 million and to worsen matters, the number of data breaches is increasing year on year. From 2020 to 2021, […]

Evaluating encryption with the NIST Protect framework

IT Security Today and How We Think About It A variety of cyber security frameworks exist to help organisations in different sectors to go about IT security in a rigorous and controlled manner. To name a few, there’s ISO IEC 27001/ISO 27002, the US NIST Cyber security Framework and the UK NIS Regulations Cyber Assessment […]

Using Transparent Encryption to Defeat 12 Common Data Breaches

The New Cyber Security Perimeter Securing the network perimeter has long since been recognised as insufficient. With today’s environment of local networks, networked devices and cloud applications, organisations use security techniques such as Zero Trust, the Software Defined Perimeter and Microsegmentation to cope. These approaches and related technologies are designed to block unauthorised access to […]

Data Security for Banking – It’s Time to Think Differently

Executive Summary It is a given that financial institutions are well-versed in security; banks have been around for centuries. They are proficient at protecting transactions and deposits, making security part of their DNA. The modern financial institution continues to apply this DNA to contemporary technologies. Data security has traditionally been structured around storage repositories. We […]

Cybersecurity for SMEs – applying a Data-centric lens

When Cyber Risk Becomes an Existential Threat When a small business experiences a data breach or cyberattack, it rarely has the resilience to recover—let alone survive long enough for the incident to make headlines. For SMEs, the loss or compromise of data is not an inconvenience; it is often an existential event that determines whether […]

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Databases, a hot spot for data leakage – Close Your Security Gaps with a simple and complete solution

Database security is paramount With businesses becoming ever more data-driven and data-reliant, databases have become their default digital asset storehouse, providing immense benefits of organisation, retrievability, and analytical insight. Covid-19 and the move to remote or hybrid work have only intensified the demand for databases, particularly those distributed through cloud technology. But that concentration of […]