Data Security != IT
At the start of spring media outlets started to report leaked classified US documents appearing online. Timelines suggest as early as March these highly classified documents were found on a platform known as Discord. Discord is a social media platform popular with online gamers, so not the type of place they’d typically be circulating data […]
New Year, New DLP Strategy?
Happy 2023, Happy Lunar New Year, welcome to the year of the rabbit. To all readers I hope it’s a year that brings health and prosperity to you, your loved ones, your clients and your data! Humans use events like a new calendar year to re-evaluate and reset, to set new goals or reinstate old […]
Have you seen the mail I just sent?
In 1971 the first ever One Day International cricket match was played; the Nasdaq stock exchange was founded, and Led Zeppelin first played Stairway To Heaven. It was also the year the first electronic mail was formalised in the Request For Comment (RFC) 196 through what became known as the Mailbox Protocol. Ironically, this protocol […]
Axiomatics and HANDD Business Solutions Partner to Deliver Dynamic Authorization
Axiomatics, the leader in delivering award-winning, next-generation authorization, today announced a reseller partnership with HANDD Business Solutions (HANDD), a UK-based independent specialist in global security. The partnership extends Axiomatics’ Orchestrated Authorization strategy to reach HANDD’s customer base across 27 countries worldwide. Axiomatics’ award-winning attribute-based access control (ABAC) enables organizations to ensure access decisions are made in real-time. Leveraging this platform, […]
How to Close Critical Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Gaps in Microsoft 365
Over a million businesses worldwide use Microsoft 365, with 731,000 companies in the United States alone. That represents a big juicy audience for hackers, bad actors and others. And although Microsoft 365 provides foundational rule-based data loss prevention (DLP) and data classification to address compliance requirements, it falls short when protecting against data loss caused by […]
PKWARE and HANDD Partner to Deliver Complete Suite of Data Security Solutions
Partnership will extend PKWARE’s PK Protect suite to HANDD’s large, global customer base December, 2021 – PKWARE, a global leader in automated data security, today announced a reseller partnership with HANDD Business Solutions (HANDD). The partnership will extend PKWARE’s data security solutions to reach HANDD’s 700 customers across 27 countries worldwide. PKWARE’s PK Protect suite provides all […]
The Reason Your Cloud Platform Needs Policing
According to recently published data from the UK based ISP Zen Internet, up to 89% of technology is soon to be hosted “off-premiseâ€. For anyone who’s not lived in a cave for the past few years this is hardly surprising. Cloud operations suited so much of our business needs and wants pre-2020, but without a […]
It’s Time to Get SASE
Who doesn’t love a new acronym? IT practitioners and those in security particularly enjoy using acronyms and abbreviations, so much so that to the uninitiated we could be construed to be conversing in a differing language. This particular acronym has the benefit of being shortened to something which, in other walks of life, means something […]
Policing in the Shadows, from home!
2020 – 2021 was a dream year for cloud computing and the hyperscalers; their profit margins describe that in a far better way than I ever will. So much so that I’m sick of talking about working from home, not working from home, the inevitable small talk when you meet the in-laws… “Are you back […]
Enterprise Data Classification: Why you need best-of-breed data classification
The data protection landscape and its associated compliance environment changed fundamentally with the implementation of the European-wide GDPR in May 2018, with many other privacy regulations following suit around the globe. It is no longer about what organisations think they need to be doing in order to control their data, but that they are being […]