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The History of Data Breaches

By Juliana de Groot on Mon, 11/12/2018
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.
Compliance
Data Protection Act (DPA)
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
Data Protection
Ransomware
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HSBC US Customers Hit by Data Breach

Wed, 11/07/2018
HSBC, one of the largest banks in the world, confirmed this week that some of its US customers' bank accounts were hacked in October, possibly by stolen credentials.
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Arcserve Zero-Day Disclosure

Fri, 10/19/2018
We are disclosing four previously undisclosed vulnerabilities within the Arcserve Unified Data Protection platform. The vulnerabilities can open the door for potential compromise of sensitive data through access to credentials, phishing attacks and the ability for a hacker to read files without authentication from the hosting system.________________________________________TitleDDI-VRT-2018-18 -...
Vulnerability Management
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Network Scanning for Complicated, Growing or Distributed Networks

Sun, 10/07/2018
Upgrade Your Network ScannerFree scanners are great – up to a point. That point is when your network reaches a critical size, your assets have acquired a critical value or your company, industry (or Uncle Sam) has set new compliance requirements that those freebee tools just can’t handle.Running multiple network scanning tools is a painEveryone has a half dozen network scanners sitting around and...
Vulnerability Management
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Port Scanning Tools VS Vulnerability Assessment Tools

Sat, 10/06/2018
Port scanning tools – just the first step to network securityYour port scanning tools are nice, but...When your network reaches a critical size, your assets have acquired a critical value or when new compliance standards hit, your port scanning tools may have reached their limit. It’s the job of vulnerability assessment and management tools to combine port scanning with the investigation of...
Compliance
Vulnerability Management
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The Solution to IP Scanning Headaches

Wed, 09/26/2018
IP scanning for growing or distributed networksYour IP Scanner more problem than help?When your network reaches a critical size, your assets have acquired a critical value or you have new compliance requirements - your freebee IP scanner just can't handle it. beSECURE (now part of Fortra Vulnerability Management) can. It your best step up into the corporate vulnerability assessment and management...
Vulnerability Management
hybrid IT infrastructure monitoring
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Tips for Managing Physical, Virtual, Cloud Environments

By Per Bauer on Thu, 08/30/2018
IT infrastructure is complex today. On-prem. Off-prem. Virtualization. The cloud. It’s up to IT to build this infrastructure, then distribute resources from its many miscellaneous parts to various services in the most efficient way possible. With so many different environments to track—many of them walled off from one another in data silos—service issues can be difficult to diagnose and...
Infrastructure Management
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Better Together – Microsoft AIP and Fortra's Data Classifier

Thu, 08/23/2018
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...
Data Classification
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