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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 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,...
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Fortra’s Data Classification Suite for Outlook on the web built on the Office Add-in platform

Fortra’s Data Classification Suite for Microsoft Outlook on the web is a security and governance add-in that enables organizations to ensure consistent and prudent handling of Outlook emails in real time.Fortra’s Data Classification Suite helps Outlook on the web users:Identify and classify emails based on data sensitivityAutomate warnings, viewing...
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Better Together – Microsoft AIP and Fortra's Data Classifier

Following on from our first post of the series, What is AIP?, this week we look at how AIP is better when paired with Fortra's Data Classifier, and the business value you will get from this partnership. In the world of enterprise data protection and data classification, the requirement for flexible solutions combining best-of-breed functionality with sophisticated policy support is viewed as...
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Enhancing Microsoft AIP: What is AIP?

Microsoft Azure Information Protection (AIP) provides a data security infrastructure across Microsoft applications, as part of the MS Azure subscription package. AIP is a cloud-based solution which allows you to classify and label Office files and Outlook emails, which in turn drives Microsoft Azure Rights Management (RMS). The underlying aim of AIP is to help organizations capitalize on the...