Month: August 2024

Data Loss Prevention

Your Comprehensive Guide to Data Loss Prevention

In 2017, Equifax, one of the largest credit reporting agencies in the US, reported a Data breach. The breach went undetected for months and exposed the personal information of 147 million consumers, nearly half the United States population.  What was the cause? A single unpatched vulnerability in the web application. This oversight allowed hackers to…
Aug 26, 2024
Operational Risk Management

Operational Risk Management: Is Your Business Sitting on a Landmine of Risks?

Be it the Stone Age or the Digital Age, the stakes have always remained high. The only difference is that back then, we fought to save our lives; now, we fight to save our data. From headline-grabbing data breaches to the quiet erosion of efficiency through manual and outdated processes, operational risks are often silent…
Aug 23, 2024
How to Perform a Cybersecurity Audit

Cybersecurity Audit: What Is It and How to Conduct One?

Technology has made significant advancements in just the last decade as we went from smartphones to smart homes. We’re more connected than ever before but we’re also more vulnerable than ever before. Cyberattacks occur every 39 seconds on an average, affecting 1 in 3 Americans every year. That’s why cybersecurity has had a paradigm shift…
Aug 23, 2024
Understanding Recovery Time Objective (RTO): Importance, Calculation, and Business Impact

Don’t Get Caught Off Guard: How to Calculate Your Recovery Time Objective?

Did you know that more than 72% of businesses are not equipped to fulfill their Recovery Time Objective (RTO) expectations? Incidents and disasters can occur at any time and derail businesses quite easily. And organizations must safeguard themselves against theft, power outages, corrupted hard drives and servers, ransomware, cyber attacks, and natural disasters.  But how…
Aug 23, 2024
SIEM use cases

SIEM use cases: How to bulletproof your business? 

A Gartner report indicates that the primary driver for organizations implementing or upgrading Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems is the need for rapid detection of data breaches and targeted attacks. Modern SIEM systems can collect and process massive amounts of information regarding log data generated within organizations’ IT environments. This enables them to…
Aug 23, 2024
Understanding Data Governance: Its Importance and Impact on Business

What is data governance and how to implement it?

“Data is the new oil.”  Organizations have been pushed to introduce data governance policies because of digital transformation initiatives and the increase in big data. The sheer volume of data that is generated as organizations take advantage of Internet of Things technologies is staggering. According to Cisco, the daily data production amounts to about 402.74…
Aug 23, 2024