(by Todd Feinman, CEO and Founder of Spirion) My team thought others would be interested in a memo that I sent to some friends and colleagues. The memo follows: I have received an overwhelming number of requests for information about what to do since the Equifax leak of 143 million SSNs was disclosed. I’ve tried to summarize those questions to help you protect yourself, your family, and your business. If…
(by Todd Feinman, CEO and Founder Spirion) Equifax allowed 143 million Social Security Numbers (SSN), Names, Date of Birth (DOB), and other personally identifiable information (PII) to be stolen. This affects most of us personally because we all have financial accounts (e.g., credit card, bank account, mortgage, car lease) and it’s highly likely Equifax was the recipient of your SSN from a bank who ran a credit report on you…
(by Cory Retherford, Spirion user) Greetings! I am a Solution Engineer for Spirion, LLC. My adventure using the data security software began in 2007 as the Indiana University Technology Services Manager for Student Enrollment Services. We had an organizational mission to provide a solution that would allow a better understanding of our data footprint and the types of data existing on our workstations, servers, and websites. As it happens, fate guided me to the…
Following Spirion’s presentation at RSA 2017, “The Impact of Data Discovery and Data Classification in Information Security” Dr. Larry Ponemon of the Ponemon Institute discusses some of the key findings from “The Importance of DLP in Cybersecurity Defense” Ponemon report. The report, which was published in February of 2017, found significant differences between responses of those that are using a manual approach to mitigate or curtail the leakage of sensitive…
At the 2016 RSA Conference in San Francisco, CA, Todd Feinman, CEO and Gabriel Gumbs, VP of Product Strategy presented on Sensitive Data Management Maturity – The DLP Missing Link. As a company and with the help of industry professionals, we created a Sensitive Data Maturity Model to help organizations identify where their data is, who owns it, what should be done with it, and how much of it exists….
In 2016, we announced Sensitive Data Manager 9.0, our Data Loss Prevention (DLP) solution. In addition to offering the highest accuracy of data discovery and data classification, this release adds powerful, custom data discovery capabilities that reduce the burden on IT Security by allowing organizations to locate their unique sensitive data. Sensitive Data Manager 9.0 increases automation of classification and DLP security controls, reaching deep into cloud environments to further data…
Forrester recently released an insightful report Understand The State Of Data Security And Privacy: 2015 To 2016, based on hundreds of discussions with security experts. The in-depth research of the data security industry highlights which core data security technologies are in demand for 2016 and how our behaviors and motivations make data loss inevitable. It also covers why safeguarding the customer experience is essential for building trust, and why a…
An effective data protection program minimizes your sensitive data footprint and helps keep business-critical and regulated data secure and out of the hands of attackers. The best way to develop and maintain such a program is to think of it as a process, not a project. Here are ten steps to help you put your process in place. Adopt a logical approach to a data protection strategy First, make sure…
Locating credit cards, personally identifiable information such as SSNs and drivers licenses is a staple of our AnyFind® technology. AnyFind narrows the likelihood of a positive match and eliminates false positives through a series of validations while looking for those discrete pieces of data the way a human would. For example, when looking for a Social Security number, if you simply look for a 9-digit number you get a lot…
SC magazine released its review of classification solutions and weighed in on its importance in DLP strategies. The full review can be found here At the risk of stating the obvious, the core mission of Information Security is about protecting sensitive data. Sensitive data means a lot of things to different people. And thus it is about accurately classifying data into what is sensitive and what does not pose…