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Data Classification: Enabling Compliance with GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS, SOX, & More

Learn how Fortra's Data Classification Suite can facilitate compliance with GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS, SOX, and other prominent data privacy regulations.
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Top Ways Employees Make Their Employers Vulnerable

The people factor is still the biggest variable in cyber resilience. Firewalls, EDR, and Zero Trust help, but everyday choices shape outcomes. The top ways employees make their employer vulnerable often come down to habits formed under pressure: clicking quickly, sharing widely, and trusting implicitly. Understanding those patterns — and changing them at scale — requires focusing on human risk...
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Human Error Meets Data Exposure: The Breach Vector No One Talks About

Human error now plays a role in 95 percent of data breaches, making it more critical than ever for security teams to treat it as the substantial threat it is. In some cases, employees intentionally expose sensitive data for personal gain. But the most pervasive insider threats aren’t malicious — they’re accidental. This challenges the notion that an organization can become invulnerable if only it...
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Billions in Cybersecurity Undermined by a Single User. Why People Security Management Is Vastly Underrated

It was the most significant breach ever reported, but its origins were not uncommon. The 2024 Change Healthcare ransomware attack, which affected 190 million individuals and came with a price tag of $2.6 billion (and counting), started with an unauthorized intrusion.We spend billions of dollars annually on the best cybersecurity equipment innovated to date, but more and more, attackers are skating...
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What Is ESI Data? Understanding Electronically Stored Information

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...
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What Is Data Erasure? Secure Deletion Explained

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

AI data privacy refers to the ethical collection, storage, and usage of personal data by artificial intelligence systems.
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What Is ISO 27001 and How Can It Help Your Organization?

What Is ISO 27001?ISO 27001, also known as ISO/IEC 27001, is a widely recognized international standard that defines best practices for implementing and managing information security in an Information Security Management System (ISMS).Since it was first developed, the goal of the standard has been to provide a model for establishing, implementing,...