The MGM Breach and the Need for Proactive Data Security: An Actifile Perspective
By Assaf Litai, Co-Founder and CTO of Actifile The recent cyberattack on MGM Resorts brings to the forefront an uncomfortable truth: no matter how large or established an organization is, it remains...
Taking a Proactive Approach to Insider Risk Management
Actifile takes a proactive approach to insider risk management by continuously monitoring user activity and behavior to detect potential threats before they can cause harm. By using advanced...
The Benefits of Using a Risk-Based Approach to Data Security
A risk-based approach to data security means that organizations prioritize their security efforts and investments based on the level of risk that specific data or systems face. This approach...
Sensitive Data Detection Beyond the Perimeter: Monitoring and Auditing
Importance of sensitive data detection and its security no matter where it is located The importance of securing ,sensitive data upon detection no matter where it is located cannot be overstated, as...
Data Privacy Maturity Models: Achieving Compliance
Data privacy maturity Globally, companies strive to fulfill their ,data privacy maturity models that are paramount for data security in the digital era. Governments globally have enacted laws to...
The Future of Data Security is Here: Actifile’s Data Security Platform
The importance of a DSP Data security has become more and more of a critical MUST HAVE for businesses in the current digital climate. It is more crucial than ever to make sure that sensitive data is...
Managed Service Provider (MSP) Toolbox for Data Risk Assessments
What are data risk assessments and why they are important? ,Data risk assessments are analyses of a company's information systems and procedures that try to spot security flaws and threats. These...
How File-Level Encryption Can Secure Sensitive Data from Ransomware Attacks
n The Rise of Ransomware and Its Business Impact “The economic downturn (caused by energy prices, inflation, sanctions, etc.) will lead more people to poverty, which always translates to increased...
Insider Threats Defined
In the chaotic world of ,data security, insider threats are security breaches that occur as a result of actions taken by authorized individuals within an organization. These actors can range...
Why DLP Deployments Tend To Fail
Data security is becoming a board level concern for most businesses that store or use sensitive data. Malicious third party actors are becoming more organized, more sophisticated and bolder in their...
Data Security Best Practices – What Startups Need to Know
When you’re planning to launch a startup, or are already taking the first steps towards expanding your new business, one of your most urgent priorities should be establishing a comprehensive data...
Data Security for the Healthcare Industry
How to meet healthcare data security challenges in a rapidly evolving high tech global healthcare industry. It is difficult to place an accurate financial value on the massive global healthcare...
Data Protection for Financial Services
Data security for financial services is an issue that concerns almost everybody who participates in the modern economy. Anyone using online banking, shopping online, or receiving any kind of...
Shifting from Event-Driven to Preemptive Data Security
Effective data protection is essential for any business or organization that stores sensitive client data, or that wishes to protect its own sensitive data against competitors. The potential...
The Advantages of a Data-Centric Approach to Security vs. File or User-Centric
Why workplace changes, and growing existential and insider threats to data protection, are driving a rapid transition to data centric security solutions. Effective data protection is one of the...
Data Security Features SMEs Should Ask From Their MSPs
Everything you need to know when you build small and medium-sized business data security plans. One of the most pressing issues facing small and medium-sized businesses is the need for an effective...
Actifile and CMMC (v2.0) Level 2: Producing the necessary evidence
Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) is used by the United States Department of Defense (DoD) to ensure that all contractors adequately protect sensitive information. CMMC is...
CMMC Compliance Explained
Choose the Right Tools to Become CMMC Compliant Cybercrime costs are projected to reach an astonishing $10.5 trillion by 2025. The US government is determined to standardize - and actively audit -...
Serving regulated industries as an MSP
With the rising threat of cyberattacks looming in virtually every part of cyberspace security has become every MSP’s concern. Besides the standard array of services that MSP provides to regulated...
Why and How to Balance Security & Usability
Why Balance Cyber Security & Usability Both user experience and security are essential for any system. Put simply, they can be thought of as complementary halves of a unified whole — the...
Actifile Announces a Sizable Investment Round to Accelerate the Company Growth
Actifile’s game-changing automated data security platform, which was designed for Small And Medium Size Enterprises (SMEs), protects sensitive and private data from malicious actors theft, or...
An interim twist to the CMMC story
While there is still some time to get onboard and prepare for the CMMC certification, the government released an interim requirement that becomes effective November 30th 2020. nSee...
A Practical Approach to Data Privacy and Compliance
Introduction to Privacy Compliance and Data Compliance Many MSPs are looking at becoming vCIOs for their customers. The main difference between the vCIO and the Network Admin is that the admin looks...
Recent Events Make Now The Right Time To Discuss Data Risk With Your Customers
Stop building more walls and locks, and start focusing on the data first Most of the security and compliance tools that are prevalent in the MSP marketplace focus on addressing network and endpoint...
The Zero Trust Architecture and MSPs
Zero Trust isn’t as new concept in the enterprise space. It was conceptualized in the mid-2000’s, tried by Google (which experience code theft at the time) in the “BeyondCorp” architecture,...
Data or Exploit? Focusing in on the risk.
MSPs leverage cybersecurity tool stacks (or integrated platforms) to address their customers threat landscape (viruses, malware, ransomware, vulnerabilities and exploits) and to help ensure that...
The risk-to-the-data Vs. the-risk-in-the-data.
It is intuitively accepted that when securing or insuring a jewelry store the security expenses and the premiums would be related to the Carat value of the jewels in the store. A fake jewelry store...
How does Actifile calculate the Data Privacy Risk?
Actifile’s Risk Portal displays risk as number of files, number of records and an estimated assessment of the monetary risk the data would pose if a data privacy incident were to happen.nOne...
IT Risks and Insurance
Insuring against IT risks in small and medium sized (SME) organizations is becoming more important: The move to the cloud makes the employee endpoints the data hub. Employees download, process and...
Playing the Odds
The odds that an unidentified (or unpatched) vulnerability in your network defenses will be exploited by ransomware are no longer negligible. This is dues to the porous nature of modern networks and...
MSPs: Sell better by focusing on DATA
The Blue Ocean for MSP sales and basis of compliance as well as sales in the future will be focused around the DATA. Think I am wrong? Ever since the CEO of Microsoft, Satya Nadella, repeated the...
Panasonic’s Data Breach Leaves Open Questions
Originally published on: https://threatpost.com/panasonic-data-breach-questions/176660/ Cyberattackers had unfettered access to the technology giant’s file server for four months. Consumer...
Hack exposes personal information of 400,000 Planned Parenthood Los Angeles patients
Originally published on https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-12-01/data-breach-planned-parenthood-los-angeles-patients A hacker accessed the personal information of roughly 400,000 patients...
Robinhood Data Breach Nightmare exposed personal information of 7 million customers
Originally published on: https://fortune.com/2021/11/08/robinhood-data-breach-7-million-customers/ Popular stock-trading app Robinhood revealed today that a recent data breach has compromised the...