Data Breaches

In today’s digital, mobile world, law firms must be extra vigilant when it comes to protecting and securing clients’ critical data. Protecting such sensitive data without utilizing remote data management is almost impossible. With the increased use of mobile devices in law firms, influenced by BYOD, the odds of important client information being lost or stolen have increased dramatically. In our new whitepaper, “Remote Data Management a Necessity at...

2013 was a big year for mega-breaches, and unfortunately it's getting bigger. While you may have been shocked by the 40 million confirmed accounts breached by the Target hack, it appears both that the breach was underestimate and that they were not the only retailers affected.

According to the US Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR), there were over 100 HIPAA privacy breaches affecting 500 or more individuals in 2013. When the numbers were crunched two months prior to the end of 2013, there had been 730 data breach incidents recorded by the OCR between 2009 and 2013. As of January 8, 2014, that number is now 773. More...

Absolute Software acquired Palisade Systems in 2013, in the process adding on data security and data loss prevention (DLP) assets. Our new DLP capabilities fit in well with our existing endpoint GRC offering, Computrace, offering expanded GRC offerings to not only remotely invoke security commands to prevent and mitigate data breach scenarios, including data delete, data retrieval and device freeze, but also to now proactively monitor and manage data at...

Earlier this month, I wrote an article for CIO Review, “Government IT – The Data Debate,” on the information security challenges faced in the government sector. Nowhere is there a more regulated space within which IT must work to protect large amounts of sensitive data and guard against security incidents that may put the data (and the organization) at risk. All on an ever-diminishing budget, of course. I spent the early...