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What Is Data Privacy? Top Risks & Best Practices

Tue, 07/09/2024
Data privacy, or information privacy, concerns IT's aspect involving control over data sharing by individuals or organizations. Read this post to learn more about why data privacy is important, along with best practices to strengthen data privacy.
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What Is a Data Spill? How to Prevent and Manage It

Mon, 07/01/2024
A data spill or breach occurs when sensitive information is mistakenly disclosed or transferred to unsecured environments or unauthorized persons. Learn more about data spills, including how to prevent one, in this blog.
Data Loss Prevention
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Four Key Cybersecurity Highlights from Infosecurity Europe

By Steve Audsley on Thu, 06/27/2024
Infosecurity Europe 2024 saw a tightened focus on this year’s real security agenda: a holistic approach to data protection, scrutiny on the supply chain, and the ever-wary eye toward AI and its many uses. Fortra’s Steve Audsley, EMEA Solution Engineering Manager for Data Protection, shares his experience.
Data Classification and AI
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How Fortra's Data Classification Suite Leverages AI

By Piers Chivers on Mon, 06/17/2024
There's a lot of hype around the use of AI in all aspects of life, not to mention in cybersecurity. As you may have gathered, some of this hype is overblown and in the data protection space, akin to delivering a “magic bullet” to solve an organization’s content analysis problems.With this in mind, I thought I’d highlight how artificial intelligence is actually used within Fortra’s Data...
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Understanding The White House’s 2024 Cybersecurity Report

By Antonio Sanchez on Wed, 06/12/2024
To protect against mounting threats to national security via nation-state cyberattacks, domestic ransomware attacks, and threats to critical infrastructure, The White House issued its 2023 National Cybersecurity Strategy. This recently released 2024 report reviews progress made towards achieving those outlined objectives.
Vulnerability Research

Patch Tuesday Update - June 2024

By Mieng Lim on Tue, 06/11/2024
Fortra VM will include the Microsoft Patch Tuesday checks in the NIRV 4.44.0 and FVM Agent 2.8 releases.Microsoft addressed 51 vulnerabilities in this release, including 1 rated as Critical and 18 Remote Code Execution vulnerabilities.CVE/AdvisoryTitleTagMicrosoft Severity RatingBase ScoreMicrosoft ImpactExploitedPublicly DisclosedCVE-2024-30069Windows Remote Access Connection Manager Information...
Vulnerability Management
data access control
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What Is Data Access Control? A Quick Guide

Tue, 06/11/2024
The idea behind data access control is ensuring that only authorized individuals have access to certain data in a network or database. Learn more about data access control and why it matters for nearly every organization in this new blog.