Learn how Fortra's Data Classification Suite can facilitate compliance with GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS, SOX, and other prominent data privacy regulations.

Electronically Stored Information (ESI) refers to any data created, modified, communicated, or stored in digital form. This includes emails, documents, databases, instant messages, audio and video files, social media content, and more—essentially any information that resides in electronic systems. As digital communication and data storage have become the norm, ESI plays a pivotal role in legal...

What Is a Purple Team?In cybersecurity, a purple team is a group that combines offensive red team capabilities with defensive blue team insights to provide a truly collaborative, well-balanced security posture. “Purple teaming” is more than a work group; it should be a philosophy.If you’re familiar with offensive security, red and blue team structures are well known. To review:Red Teams: Perform...

MedusaLocker, the ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) group that has been active since 2019 is openly recruiting for penetration testers to help it compromise more businesses. As Security Affairs reports, MedusaLocker has posted a job advert on its dark web leak site, which pointedly invites pentesters who already have direct access to corporate networks to make contact."If you don't have access,...

Data erasure, or data wiping, is a software method that securely overwrites and destroys all electronic data on a disk drive or digital media.

AI data privacy refers to the ethical collection, storage, and usage of personal data by artificial intelligence systems.

Data backup involves creating and storing copies of data separately to restore it in case of loss from crashes, viruses, deletions, or disasters.

Data anonymization removes or encodes personally identifiable information in data sets, ensuring individuals described remain anonymous.

Data optimization transforms, restructures, and improves data for efficient processing, storage, and access.