It seems that the data security landscape is constantly changing. Every day, new threats arise and fresh best practices emerge to keep companies at the forefront of protecting sensitive information. PKWARE’s staff of experts in data security share their thoughts in our blog, highlighting the most current topics on data security, management, and reduction. Check back frequently and join the conversation.

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It may not be easy to go back and closely look at what went wrong following a data breach. No one wants to be the employee that lost a flash drive or failed to meet a compliance requirement. However, acting within an effective information security framework requires organizations to do exactly that ...
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Technology experts have long warned organizations against the threat of the potential aftermath of a data security incident. The good news is that the majority of organizations have listened to those concerns. However, recent research suggests that there is a disparity between data security fears an...
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Some business leaders may be surprised to discover that the biggest risk facing organizational data is not from individual hackers or even large groups of cybercriminals. Those high-profile breaches do have a tendency to make headlines, but there is a much quieter threat that all organizations must ...
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Hackers have turned to automation as a way to efficiently orchestrate attacks against a large number of targets. Combined with increasingly sophisticated malware, organizations have reason to be a little concerned about the effectiveness of their traditional, perimeter-based defenses such as firewal...
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Alarming Research According to the 2010 Annual Study: U.S. Cost of a Data Breach by Poneman Institute, a Michigan-based research center that studies privacy, data protection and information security policy, security breaches cost $214 per compromised record and average $7.2 million per data breach ...
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