Data classification and protection now available for structured data in SQL

This post is authored by Gilad Mittelman, Senior Program Manager, SQL Data Security. Data privacy and data security have become one of the most prominent topics in organizations in almost every industry across the globe. New regulations that formalize requirements are emerging around these topics...

Configuring Imperva SecureSphere for GDPR Compliance: Part One

Time is running out. 23 days until GDPR enforcement The GDPR effective date is less than a month away and, given the significant risk and potential costs associated with a failure to comply, organizational readiness efforts continue to mount. GDPR non-compliance penalties can be severe up to 79...

Critical Actions to Finalize Your GDPR Compliance Program

Starting May 25, 2018, enforcement begins for the new EU General Data Protection Regulation GDPR and its heightened principles and requirements regarding data privacy, data processing, and data security. The newly revised regulation applies to organizations doing business in the European Union or...

How to Tune Your Database Security to Protect Big Data

As digital information and data continues to accumulate worldwide, new big data solutions grow more and more popular. The introduction of IoT into our lifestyle, which turns appliances into smart data logging machines, along with organizations tracking behaviors for data science and research...

Data Security Solutions for GDPR Compliance

Enforcement of the new EU General Data Protection Regulation GDPR adopted in 2016 starts on May 25, 2018. It requires all organizations that do any business in the EU or that collect or process personal data originating in the EU to comply with the regulation. Organizations that do not have a...

Professional Services for GDPR Compliance

The GDPR effective date is less than seven months away and the stakes are high. GDPR non-compliance penalties have the potential to be quite significant up to 79 times higher than existing guidelines, and GDPR applies to any organization of any size that collects or processes personal data...

GDPR Requirements: Get Started with Classifier

The GDPR requires that organizations exhibit commitment to individuals’ data privacy by implementing a data protection by design and by default approach, meaning organizations need to build privacy and protection into their products, services, and applications. GDPR also mandates that organizatio...

Three Ways to Use Data Classification Scan Results

In July we launched Classifier, a free data classification tool that allows you to quickly and easily uncover sensitive data in your databases. Since its launch, the tool has been widely used around the globe, which comes as no surprise given the heightened focus on data protection. Furthermore,...

Addressing Data Across Borders for the GDPR

Most enterprises today do business across the globe, have databases in multiple countries and DBAs or users in different regions who have access to those databases. With GDPR mandating privacy requirements for personal data of European Union EU residents and visitors, it is important for an...

Uncover Sensitive Data with the Classifier Tool

Understanding what sensitive data resides in your enterprise database is a critical step in securing your data. Imperva offers Classifier, a free data classification tool that allows you to quickly uncover sensitive data in your database. Classifier contains over 250 search rules for popular...

7 Steps to Protect Your Data From Insider Threats

Like it or not, your greatest risk is already on the payroll. When internal users with trusted access to data are careless, become compromised or have malicious intent, enterprise data is exposed. Just ask the CIA. Detecting insider threats, however, is challenging for organizations due to the...

Is Your Security Team Setup To Fail?

The ingredients for strong cybersecurity aren’t a secret. In fact, they haven’t changed significantly over the past 20 years—the ingredients are available to almost every organization out there. On the surface, doing security isn’t that hard: | Patch quickly and frequently. Use reasonable securit...

Database Activity Monitoring: A Do’s and Don’ts Checklist for DBAs

In a previous post, we looked at the limitations of native audit, the free tool often used by database administrators DBAs for logging database activity. While it has its appeal—it’s already part of the database server and does not require additional cost for third-party appliances or...

Top 3 Focus Areas that can help you in Data Loss Prevention

One of the most intimidating issues that gives nightmares to IT teams across organizations is data breaches or data loss. Typically, data loss happens when security is compromised and corporate sensitive data is accessed. It might fall under any of these categories: Unauthorized, intentional or...

Information Governance: Get Data Classification Right First

Data classification is one of the most crucial elements of an effective information governance process--yet its also one that many companies fail to implement well. In its simplest terms, data classification is the process of categorizing data based on its level of sensitivity. When done properly...