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...

Securing Healthcare Data and Applications

The healthcare industry is quickly growing as a sweet spot for hackers to steal large amounts of patient records for profit. The US Department of Health and Human Services breach tool reports over 340 data breaches in 2017 impacting more than 3 million individuals, and 176.5 million individuals...

Build-Your-Own Data Masking. Yes or No?

A lot of organizations are taking great strides to protect their sensitive data with a multi-layered strategy—one that includes data masking. We’ve even seen many tackling this critical data security component in DIY fashion, often tasking one resource with developing and implementing scripts to...

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...

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...

3 Steps to Protecting Sensitive Data

Cyber criminals, compromised insiders, malicious users, hacktivists. It seems like everyone is getting in on the threat game. In fact, despite efforts to prevent them, last year the U.S. experienced a 40% increase in data breaches according to a report by the Identity Theft Resource Center and...

Apache Log4j CVE-2017-5645 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Description Apache Log4j is prone to remote code-execution vulnerability. Successfully exploiting this issue allows attackers to execute arbitrary code in the context of the affected application. Failed exploits will result in denial-of-service conditions. Apache Log4j 2.0-alpha1 through 2.8.1 ar...

Get Going on Your GDPR Plan [Infographic]

General Data Protection Regulation GDPR enforcement begins May 2018. Are you ready? While enforcement may seem a way off, you don’t want to get derailed by last-minute planning efforts. Organizations should revisit their security and compliance strategies today to ensure they’re prepared to meet...

Apache Groovy CVE-2016-6814 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Description Apache Groovy is prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability. An attacker can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code within the context of the user running the affected application. Failed exploit attempts will result in a denial-of-service condition. Apache Groovy 2.4.4...

[Vega v1.0] Web Application Security Scanner

Vega is an open source platform to test the security of web applications. Vega can help you find and validate SQL Injections, Cross-Site Scripting XSS, inadvertently disclosed sensitive information, and other vulnerabilities. It is written in Java, GUI based, and runs on Linux , OS X , and Window...