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.

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We countdown 20 information security tips for payment processors in Data Protection 101, our series on the fundamentals of information security.

Learn about the Chief Risk Officer role in Data Protection 101, our series on the fundamentals of information security.

Learn about the Chief Compliance Officer role in Data Protection 101, our series on the fundamentals of information security.

The PCI Security Standards Council released a new tool Tuesday designed to help small merchants better protect their customers' payment card data.

Federal agents apprehended a former Apple employee last week suspected of stealing intellectual property, including engineering schematics on the company's secret self-driving car technology.

California passed a sweeping data privacy bill on Thursday believed to be the strictest in the nation. The law will give consumers the ability to ask what data companies have on them and to sue over data breaches.

Learn what the NIST Cybersecurity Framework is, who it impacts, and how to implement it in Data Protection 101, our series on the fundamentals of information security.

Tesla filed a lawsuit against a former employee this week after it learned he made changes to company source code and exported gigabytes of proprietary data to unknown third parties.

The PCI Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) deadline to disable SSL/early TLS protocols and better protect payment card data is less than two weeks away.

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According to a recent survey 40 percent of companies said they won't be compliant with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) when it goes into effect next month.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released a new version of its popular Cybersecurity Framework last week.

Learn about the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the requirements for compliance in Data Protection 101, our series on the fundamentals of information security.

Whether malicious or negligent, insider threats pose serious security problems for organizations. Forrester Senior Security Analyst Joseph Blankenship offers some insight into common early indicators of an insider threat.

Global cybercrime costs could reach $2 trillion by 2019. That’s up 3X from 2015, which was only a paltry $500 billion by comparison. Surprisingly, though, hackers should be the least of your worries.

Securing PII is a critical component of many data privacy regulations as well as a valuable way to gain customer trust – here are 10 steps to help keep PII protected within your organization.

Part 5 of our Top Challenges of GDPR series provides tips for implementing a key requirement of GDPR: privacy by design and default.

This is the twelfth installment in our How-To series: an ongoing set of product posts full of tips and tricks for getting the most out of Digital Guardian Secure Collaboration. Public. Restricted. Top Secret. You know the drill. If you’re like most organizations, you have a similar schema to classify confidential data. But how do you add additional protections to your most sensitive content? And how do you make sure competitors can’t access your strategic plans if they do get their hands on them? We recently announced dynamic, two-factor authentication for highly sensitive data. With native two-factor authentication and out-of-the box integrations into RSA SecureID and Duo Security, we’re giving our customers the ability to add an on-demand, two-factor challenge for users accessing highly confidential secure content. The best part: it’s really simple. And it’s an incredibly powerful way to let your team know they’re working with confidential content and protect against compromised credentials. Here’s a quick breakdown of how to enable two-factor authentication on confidential documents with Digital Guardian Secure Collaboration: Build a “Top Secret” Security Policy with Two-Factor Authentication In the Admin portal, create a security policy to classify documents as Top Secret. This security policy will not only label your data as Top Secret, it will allow your team to secure and control how recipients work with classified content, wherever it travels. For highly confidential documents, we recommend a security policy that disables editing, saving and printing on your data. Quickly add two-factor authentication by selecting Require Authentication > Secondary when building the policy. You can choose either native Digital Guardian Secure Collaboration two-factor authentication via Twilio or plug-and-play integrations with RSA SecureID and Duo Security. It’s an effective way to help you consistently manage authentication across your business. Secure Data with your “Top Secret” Policy When you secure a document with our product, you’re ensuring your Top Secret security policy sticks to your data throughout its life cycle - even if it’s downloaded, duplicated or moved offline. To manually secure a document, right-click the file and select “Top Secret.” Alternatively, automatically secure and apply the Top Secret policy to any email leaving your organization, automatically secure files with sensitive keywords stored in local SMB drives, Box, Dropbox, or OneDrive/SharePoint. Challenge Recipients with a Two-Factor Authentication Token What happens when recipients get a Digital Guardian Secure Collaboration secured document? Recipients can easily access secured content without installing our software, proprietary software or clunky plug-ins. Our product will first validate their email address and then challenge them with a two-factor authentication challenge. See screenshot below for our native two-factor authentication via Twilio. And that’s it! You’ve now added additional checks and balances to prevent leaks and ensure your most confidential content is in the right hands - no matter where it travels after it leaves your network and moves to untrusted environments. We’re here to talk to you anytime and show you our Secure Collaboration functionality if you have any questions.