Cliff White, Author at Accellion

Protect Sensitive Content but Make it Easy to Share

Six Principles for Securing Sensitive Enterprise Content in a Hyper-Connected World

by Cliff White March 21, 2019March 21, 2019 | Cyber Security

To succeed in today’s hyper-connected world, businesses, governments and NGOs must enable easy online collaboration across the extended enterprise. Employees, suppliers, partners, investors, customers, doctors, patients, constituents and other stakeholders...

Build a Holistic, Proactive Defense Around Your Business Workflows

by Cliff White February 14, 2019February 14, 2019 | Cyber Security

Complete protection against external workflow threats requires a holistic defense that spans the entire threat surface. Every external file transfer must be routed through a secure conduit that extends across...

Keep Malicious Actors Out of Your Private Business Workflows

by Cliff White February 7, 2019February 11, 2019 | Cyber Security

External file threats introduce a malicious file into the organization under the guise of an everyday workflow, generally with the help of an end user. A phishing email with a...

Preserve IP and PII With Dynamic Governance Over External Workflows

by Cliff White January 31, 2019February 11, 2019 | Cyber Security

Internal file threats entail a breach of sensitive information from secure content stores to unauthorized third parties. To prevent them, you must ensure that all sensitive files are saved to...

Lock Down Your Sensitive Enterprise Content to Prevent a Data Leak

by Cliff White January 24, 2019February 11, 2019 | Cyber Security

Your enterprise content is everywhere. Literally everywhere. On laptops, phones, in on premise servers, and in the cloud. Employees can access content – much of it sensitive – from any...

Achieve Data Security with Strong Internal and External Perimeters

by Cliff White January 9, 2019February 11, 2019 | Cyber Security

Securing your organization’s most sensitive content is analogous to securing a busy office building. If you’re in charge of security in an office building, you must protect your tenants amid...

Visualize Workflow Threats to Avoid Data Breaches

Visualize Everyday Workflow Threats to Prevent Data Breaches

by Cliff White December 5, 2018February 11, 2019 | Cyber Security

Do you know where your organization keeps its PII, PHI or other IP? Are they on-premise or in the cloud? Do you know who has access to them? Are all...

5 Strategies to Protect Sensitive Content in a Dangerously Connected World

5 Strategies for Protecting Sensitive Content in a Dangerously Connected World

by Cliff White November 28, 2018February 8, 2019 | Cyber Security

The modern enterprise spends millions of dollars on cyber security, yet the modern CISO can’t say in any specific detail what information is entering and leaving the firm. How sensitive...

Ransomware Protection in the Age of WannaCry: How to Limit the Impact of an Infection and Speed Recovery

by Cliff White May 24, 2017November 27, 2018 | Cyber Security

If you read IT security news (or, quite frankly, any news at all), you’re familiar with the global WannaCry ransomware attack that was launched recently. It’s a sobering lesson in...

Healthcare Data Breaches Are Common, Putting Patient Data and HIPAA Compliance at Risk

by Cliff White October 11, 2016November 27, 2018 | Cyber Security

Healthcare data breaches, and HIPAA compliance violations from those data breaches, are increasingly common. That’s one of the stark conclusions from the Ponemon Institute’s sixth annual study on the state of security...

Developers Beware: Poor Coding Practices Results in Poor Mobile App Security

by Cliff White March 23, 2015November 27, 2018 | Cyber Security

Enterprise organizations interested in developing their own mobile apps would benefit from reading HP Security Research’s new Cyber Risk Report 2015. The report presents an in-depth look at enterprise IT security...

Lost and Stolen Mobile Devices Are Leading Cause of Healthcare Data Breaches

by Cliff White February 23, 2015November 27, 2018 | Cyber Security

A lost or stolen laptop, tablet, or smartphone can complicate a healthcare data breach, as a recent story from Texas makes clear. The thief who burglarized the headquarters of Sunglo Health...

Remote Wipe: a Must for Mobile Security

by Cliff White October 15, 2014November 27, 2018 | Cyber Security

As more employees use smartphones and tablets to share sensitive information, remote wipe – the remotely controlled deletion of some or all of the content on a mobile device –...

Partner Data Breaches: You’re Only as Strong as Your Weakest Partner

by Cliff White March 10, 2014November 15, 2018 | Cyber Security

A security system is only as strong as its weakest link. That’s one of the lessons your enterprise IT team can learn from the recent spate of partner data breaches....

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