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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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What Is a Health Information System?

Learn what a health information system (HIS) is and how they're key to managing healthcare data, along with HIS benefits, best practices, and more.
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What Is HIPAA Compliance?

Learn about the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the requirements for HIPAA compliance in Data Protection 101, our series on the fundamentals of information security.
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What Is Data Compliance? Top Regulations You Need to Know

Embracing data compliance can help organizations maintain best practices. Let's look at some of the challenges and benefits of data compliance, along with some of the top regulations.
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3 Data Masking Techniques and How to Implement Them

Data masking or data obfuscation has become a popular way to modify data to make it difficult to ascertain what's authentic vs. what's been modified. In today's blog we look at three different data masking techniques.
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What To Look for in a HIPAA-Compliant Email Provider

Whether you work for a doctor's office, healthcare organization, or just find yourself handling protected health information or ePHI, this blog breaks down what to look for in a HIPAA-compliant email service provider.
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Key Considerations in The Ever-Evolving Data Privacy Landscape – DLP or Data Classification First?

Enza Iannopollo, principal analyst at Forrester, recently answered some of the pressing questions we’ve received when it comes to data security, and more importantly building the foundations of your data security strategy. Today we’re looking at what Enza had to say when it comes to implementing DLP and data classification, and if one should come...
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Data at rest versus data at creation: It’s not a choice you should make – secure them both

As part of your defense against an external cyberattack, you’re ready to tackle the enormous task of securing all the data sitting on your servers, desktops and external drives.If you’re like most organizations, you’ve got tons of it because no one throws anything away these days. And if you’re working at an enterprise, it’s an exponentially larger...
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How do you handle the ticking time bomb of dark data?

Organizations of all sizes face a similar challenge: the ticking time bomb of old data.2020 is expected to be a period of exceptionally rapid data growth, with the growth in demand outstripping growth in storage supply solutions, according to Harvard Business Analytics.Adding to the complexity: 80% of all data organizations generate daily is...
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The History of Data Breaches

As the wave of data breaches continues to crash down on companies, let’s take a look back at some of the largest and most damaging data breaches on record. Read on for a historical walk through breaches over time as well as resources for preventing data breaches.