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CISOs Enable Business Growth With This Strategy

by Laureen Smith March 19, 2020March 19, 2020 | CISO Perspectives

Can you blame the CISO who wants to quash any tool, system, or process that invites risk into the organization? CISOs face embarrassing data breaches and unceremonious terminations when employees...

Why a Telephone Might Be the Best Tool to Stem Third Party Cyber Risk

by Laureen Smith March 12, 2020March 18, 2020 | CISO Perspectives

Compliance checklists and attestations only go so far in mitigating cyber risk. They demonstrate a partner’s commitment to cybersecurity awareness however they only capture a snapshot in time. A vendor,...

Protect Third Party Workflows With Security Infrastructure Integrations

Protect Your Third Party Workflows With Security Infrastructure Integrations

by Cliff White March 3, 2020March 3, 2020 | Cyber Security

CISOs must use every tool at their disposal to protect their PII, PHI, and IP. Most security-first organizations spend millions of dollars on security tools from firewalls and hardened networks...

Strengthen Security and Governance with Metadata

Strengthen Data Security and Governance with Metadata

by Cliff White February 5, 2020February 5, 2020 | Cyber Security

If you want to protect the sensitive data you share with third parties, you need to know everything you can about that data. What data is being shared? Who’s sharing...

Lock Down Your Sensitive Data With Powerful Data Encryption

by Cliff White January 7, 2020February 5, 2020 | Cyber Security

If you owned a big, expensive diamond ring, would you leave it on the dashboard in an unlocked car or would you keep it locked in a safe and insure...

Successful CISOs Use This Essential Tool Sparingly

by Joel York December 16, 2019December 16, 2019 | CISO Perspectives

If you think looking for a needle in a hay stack would be tough, imagine looking for a needle in a needle stack. Not just any needle, but a very...

Maintain control of your sensitive content with a private or on-premises cloud

Maintain Control of Your Most Sensitive Content With a Private or On-Premises Cloud

by Cliff White December 12, 2019February 5, 2020 | Cyber Security

Anyone who has ever manufactured and sold a product in a competitive market will attest to Benjamin Franklin’s truism, “the bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price...

Want to Be a CISO? Know This First.

by Joel York December 9, 2019December 9, 2019 | CISO Perspectives

From the outside looking in, the CISO career appears pretty glamorous: lots of responsibility, lots of influence, and lots of technology. The reality unfortunately is quite different. Sure, there’s lots...

Unify Access to All Your Enterprise Content Repositories

Protect Your Digital Assets with Unified Access to Enterprise Content Repositories

by Cliff White December 4, 2019February 5, 2020 | Cyber Security

A highly secure downtown office building has multiple layers of security. Employees must show identification in order to get through the front door and their badges only grant them access...

For CISOs, a Zero Trust Security Model Won’t Work Until You Do This First

by Jerome Bei December 2, 2019December 2, 2019 | CISO Perspectives

When it comes to safeguarding organizations and the valuable digital assets they produce, hold, and share, a Zero Trust security model is considered par-excellence. But zero trust comes at a...

CISOs: Focus On These Fundamentals For Long-Term Success

by Laureen Smith November 20, 2019November 20, 2019 | CISO Perspectives

CISO’s clearly have an appetite for complexity. They secure and monitor an expansive ecosystem filled with sanctioned and unsanctioned systems, solutions, and devices. Most of these technologies generate, store or...

Larry Whiteside, Veteran CISO and Cybersecurity Thought Leader

For Healthcare CISOs, There’s No Risk Quite Like This Risk

by Laureen Smith November 11, 2019November 11, 2019 | CISO Perspectives

On one hand, smart devices are a blessing to healthcare, producing valuable data that fuels healthy lifestyles and improves patient care. On the other hand, these devices are a nightmare,...

Secure and Empower Employee Workflows With Enterprise Application Plugins

by Cliff White November 5, 2019February 5, 2020 | Cyber Security

There’s a fine line between protecting sensitive information from data leaks and making that information easy to share with trusted partners. Make the process too difficult for employees, and they...

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Think Your Data Is Hard to Protect? These Assets Are Even Harder.

by Joel York October 28, 2019October 28, 2019 | CISO Perspectives

In terms of sensitive information like PII, PHI, and IP, I’ve frequently said you can’t defend what you can’t see. It’s quite common for organizations to have customer data, financial...

Control Third Party Communication Apps to Protect Your Third Party Workflows

by Cliff White October 23, 2019February 5, 2020 | Cyber Security

Much like a busy office building with employees and guests coming and going, it’s impossible to monitor all information leaving and entering your organization. Everyday third party communication apps, such...

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