Tagged: sensitive data

Hangout: Dealing with data security in a BYOD world

Brian Jackson

Published: August 22nd, 2013

WatchGuard adds data loss prevention service to appliances

Seattle-based unified threat management (UTM) solution provider WatchGuard Technologies is unveiling a data loss prevention (DLP) service for its appliances today, the company announced. XTM Data Loss Prevention is intended to help keep

Published on: July 29th, 2013 Brian Jackson

‘Frienemies’ at work – is your data safe?

If you have children or are young enough to remember back to your school days, the term “frenemy” might be familiar – the concept that someone inside your group of friends might be

Published on: February 7th, 2013 Brian Jackson
Route1 offers secure remote access in a USB key

Route1 offers secure remote access in a USB key

A Toronto-based identity management firm released a new product to securely access sensitive data from a Mac OS X or Windows-based computer, the company announced today.Route1 Inc. is releasing version 2.0 of its

Published on: September 25th, 2012 Brian Jackson
Top 10 smartphone security risks and how to handle them

Top 10 smartphone security risks and how to handle them

As vice president of IT at Windsor Foods in Houston, Stephan Henze has to stay one step ahead of the latest IT trends. That's why he's spending a lot of time thinking about

Published on: January 20th, 2010 Mary Brandel
How to prevent unhappy employees from stealing company data

How to prevent unhappy employees from stealing company data

The insider threat has always existed, but in an era of economic upheaval and uncertainty, the problem is only magnified. A recent Ponemon Institute LLC survey of 945 people who were laid off,

Published on: April 29th, 2009 Ellen Messmer
Hard drives bought on e-Bay contain sensitive personal, corporate data

Hard drives bought on e-Bay contain sensitive personal, corporate data

A New York computer forensics firm has found that 40 per cent of the hard disk drives it recently purchased in bulk orders on eBay contained personal, private and sensitive information – everything

Published on: February 11th, 2009 Lucas Mearian and Sharon Fisher
Full encryption drives to become standard on all PCs

Full encryption drives to become standard on all PCs

The world's six largest computer drive makers today published the final specifications(download PDF) for a single, full-disk encryption standard that can be used across all hard disk drives, solid state drives (SSD) and

Published on: January 29th, 2009 Lucas Mearian