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How to “Time-bomb” a Confidential File with Fortra Secure Collaboration

By Cybersecurity Experts at Fortra on Tue, 06/02/2015
Self-destructing messages are certainly attention grabbing, but there are many legitimate reasons to limit someone's ability to view or edit a file, by time, by usage, or even by role. We have customers today using this capability to manage job offers and term sheets that expire after a specific date. Some are even managing the lifecycle of business records and classified data types that must be destroyed after a certain number of days, weeks, or months.
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FCC, AT&T Reach $25M Settlement Over Insider Data Breach

By Cybersecurity Experts at Fortra on Tue, 04/28/2015
The FCC announced that AT&T Services has agreed to pay a $25 million civil penalty to resolve investigations into consumer privacy violations at AT&T call centers. In the incident, AT&T call center employees in Mexico, Columbia, and the Philippines accessed and disclosed customer records without authorization. These records revealed customer names and full or partial Social Security numbers for...
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Vulnerability Assessment vs Vulnerability Management – What is the Difference?

Tue, 03/03/2015
I recently came across a post on LinkedIn, asking about advice related to vulnerability management (VM) and specifically as it relates what elements should be included in the process. I found many participants giving advice which was more assessment related, as opposed to VM related. Seeing this confusion out there, I felt it important to share my views on the differences. So what is the...
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Hardened Mac Configuration Tips & Recommendations

Tue, 03/03/2015
Given the popularity of the Mac and the ever increasing number of users, we thought it would be good to share insight that everyone, regardless of what they use their Mac for, should do to protect their system and their data. This list is not all inclusive; however, it does give most users much more control over the security and privacy of their data. Under System Preferences >> Security &...
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