Social security numbers, credit cards, email addresses, phone numbers. When it comes to data, what's the difference between sensitive and personal data?

Data fulfills its purpose and potential when deployed for the right uses. This often requires moving data across systems, platforms, and networks to the target endpoints where it is utilized.

Digital watermarking is a potent tool for protecting intellectual property and copyrighted material. It is a marker embedded in digital content material, typically used to identify the source and ownership of copyrighted material. This article will explore the concept of digital watermarking, how it works, and the different types of digital watermarking.

Enterprise organizations must secure access to business-critical data based on layered security that also controls the scope of access permitted for legitimate users.

Data is the cornerstone of the digital economy, but its constant generation creates challenges for organizations. One such challenge is storing and managing the data securely throughout its lifecycle–namely–creation, storage, processing, archival, and disposition.

Organizations use various types of data security controls, along with their corresponding implementation methods, to safeguard their digital assets. This article delves into the main types of data security controls, their associated technologies, and how to implement them for maximum impact.

Preventing data loss is extremely important for any business. Without implementing certain procedures, your company could lose sensitive, important data.

Data loss prevention (DLP), especially in the cloud, will help keep your organization’s private data secure while it’s being used and shared.

What does it mean when digital content is DRM protected? We explain how DRM works and protects intellectual property in this blog.

Digital rights management and DRM encryption go hand in hand; however, understanding how they work together is key to keeping your media protected.

Enterprise is necessary for your business if you handle intellectual property or other sensitive information you want protected.

Enterprise file sharing, or enterprise file sync and sharing (EFSS), can help secure your documents and data when shared throughout your company.

Information rights management may become the last line of defense when a hacker tries to gain access to your document. Will your security hold up?

Intellectual property protection requires more than filing a patent or submitting a copyright; you have to train your staff to be diligent in IP protection.

Learn about digital rights management and why it is important in Data Protection 101, our series on the fundamentals of information security.

Intellectual property theft involves stealing information, trademarks, inventions, ideas, copyrights, patents, and other intellectual property from a person or company and then, usually, using them for their own gain.

Whether digital or physical, a watermark is an excellent tool for discouraging counterfeiting and establishing the ownership and veracity of a document.

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.