Collaboration applications can be a data security problem
A new tool to provide easy execution of the FFIEC CAT framework [2019]
4 Steps CISOs Use To Optimize Data Security
All organizations that handle credit card or other types of payment card data must effectively and efficiently meet all of the various sections of PCI DSS 3.2 for PCI compliance and data security. Just like SOX or GDPR compliance, a failure to protect cardholder data can result in stiff penalties and fines as well as associated costs in settlements, legal fees and reputation loss. Many CISO’s have stated that a…
How CISO’s protect their sensitive data in the cloud
Today, all companies in every market segment face a perfect storm of risk as they are besieged by internal, external, regulator and reputational risk. Yet for CISO’s and ISO’s, getting the security budget to combat those threats can be a challenge. The newest report by Price Waterhouse Coopers (PWC)1 provides some undeniable facts that all CISO’s and ISO’s can use to support their security budget and receive the funding they…
What is Sensitive Data Classification? Sensitive data can be a number of things. The easiest way to think about it is to think of personal data you would not want to be shared with just anyone. There are several common pieces of sensitive data: Financial information – credit card numbers, bank account information, and social security numbers. Government information – any document that is classified as secret or top-secret, restricted,…
The easy answer to when you should classify new data is as soon as it is created. However, as data moves through each stage of the lifecycle, it is important to evaluate and update its classification, as necessary. As the data classification process is likely new to your organization, there will be data in each of these stages and it is important to classify data regardless of which stage of the data…