7 data privacy solution features your organization needs to have

The worldwide data privacy regulation landscape is changing National laws and state/provincial laws continue to be enacted and strengthened to ensure their citizens’ data is protected and give individuals more control over how personal data is collected, used, and shared. No matter what industry...

Google for OpSec data discovery

Following last months post about what OpSec is and how it can benefit your company I wanted go a step further, and look at some of the ways you can super charge your searches to find interesting data about your company. Basic search parameters As I mentioned last month, one of the most useful too...

Gaining Insights Is Fundamental for API Security

As enterprises continue their digital transformation journey in this Post-COVID era, applications are the engine that drives their business growth. Whether it’s a digital-first enterprise or one that is accelerating its digital transformation initiatives, APIs are not only opening up systems so...

Automating and operationalizing data protection with Dataguise and Microsoft Information Protection

This blog post is part of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association guest blog series. Learn more about MISA. In technical literature, the terms data discovery, classification, and tagging are sometimes used interchangeably, but there are real differences in what they actually mean—and each...

Automating and operationalizing data protection with Dataguise and Microsoft Information Protection

This blog post is part of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association guest blog series. Learn more about MISA. In technical literature, the terms data discovery, classification, and tagging are sometimes used interchangeably, but there are real differences in what they actually mean—and each...

CVE-2020-8588

Clustered Data ONTAP versions prior to 9.3P20 and 9.5P15 are susceptible to a vulnerability which could allow unauthorized tenant users to discover the existence of data on other Storage Virtual Machines SVMs...

Vulnerabilities fixed in Clustered Data ONTAP

NetApp has fixed two vulnerabilities. An unauthorized malicious party can use the vulnerabilities to discover the presence of data, which is stored outside his authorizations. stored. NetApp has released updates to fix the vulnerabilities in Clustered Data ONTAP. For more information, see:...

Imperva 收购 jSonar： 新一代数据安全

我很高兴地宣布，Imperva 已达成收购 jSonar 的协议！我们认为，jSonar 令人难以置信的产品和技术与我们保护数据和所有通往数据的路径的使命完美契合。合并之后，我们将能够提供一种全新的数据安全方法，帮助企业满足当前和未来的需求。 Imperva，数据安全的先驱 Imperva 成立于 18 年前，其理念是通过融合应用程序和数据安全来保护组织的数字资产和信息。2020 年，全球最大的公司告诉我们一个道理，所有的安全性（包括网络和应用程序）最终目的都是为了保护数据。从长远来看，网络的存在是为了把人们带到应用程序中，而应用程序则负责读写数据。Imperva...

CISO Stressbusters: Post #2: 4 tips for getting the first 6 months right as a new CISO

In your first six months in a new Chief Information Security Officer CISO role, you will often be tasked with building a security program. For some of us this is the most exciting part of the job, but it can also be stressful. You’re probably working under a deadline. Plus, it can be difficult to...

Oracle January 2020 Critical Patch Update Multiple Vulnerabilities

Description Oracle has released advance notification regarding the January 2020 Critical Patch Update CPU to be released on January 14, 2020. The update addresses 333 vulnerabilities affecting the following software: Oracle Database Server, versions 12.2.0.1, 18c, 19c Oracle Communications Design...

SQL Server 2019 Security Tool Inadvertently Reveals Where Sensitive Data is Stored

The first step in protecting your data and ensuring your database is compliant with security benchmarks and privacy regulations such as SOX, PCI, HIPAA, and GDPR is to understand what sensitive information resides in that database. Microsoft’s SQL Server 2019 introduces a new tool SQL Data...

Don’t Skip Data Discovery During Your Compliance Program

If your business collects customer data of any kind, it’s safe to assume you’re also aware of the multitude of new privacy and security mandates. While these regulations are an ideal driver of investment for bolstering your security programs, it’s important not to forget about one of the most...

Key Compliance Concepts for Financial Services

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act SOX was introduced following a number of financial scandals involving huge conglomerates and obliges companies to establish internal controls to prevent fraud and abuse, holding senior managers accountable for the accuracy of financial reporting. The financial crisis in 200...

ActiveReign - A Network Enumeration And Attack Toolset

Background A while back I was challenged to write a discovery tool with Python3 that could automate the process of finding sensitive information on network file shares. After writing the entire tool with pysmb, and adding features such as the ability to open and scan docx an xlsx files, I slowly...

PasteHunter - Scanning Pastebin With Yara Rules

PasteHunter is a python3 application that is designed to query a collection of sites that host publicly pasted data. For all the pasts it finds it scans the raw contents against a series of Yara rules looking for information that can be used by an organisation or a researcher. For setup...

Take these Five Steps to Really Mitigate your Data Breach Risks

Data breaches are a CSO/CISO’s worst nightmare. And they’re getting bigger and more damaging all the time. It’s no longer just hundreds of millions of users whose personal data is stolen at a time, but billions of users. That’s translating into ever-growing financial repercussions. The irony,...

Microsoft and Imperva Collaboration Bolsters Data Compliance and Security Capabilities

This article explains how Imperva SecureSphere V13.2 has leveraged the latest Microsoft EventHub enhancements to help customers maintain compliance and security controls as regulated or sensitive data is migrated to Azure SQL database instances. Database as a Service Benefits Platform as a Servic...

Monitoring Data & Data Access to Support Ongoing GDPR Compliance – Part III: Tools

The new European Union EU-wide General Data Protection Regulation GDPR was signed into law in late April 2016, and the compliance deadline came into effect on May 25, 2018. The Regulation is expansive and covers a variety of subject areas, provisions, and actions in the form of documented Article...

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...