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How A Renowned Healthcare Institution Protects Patient Data In The Cloud

Executive SummaryA world renowned healthcare institution wanted to use the cloud to dramatically improve the ease and speed of sharing information — across their multiple campuses and with their associates around the world — to deliver better patient care. This could not be done without also ensuring the protection of Protected Health Information (PHI).Fortra™’s Digital Guardian® for Cloud Data...
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Digital Guardian Enables Secure Office 365

Protect Sensitive Data in your Office 365 EnvironmentMicrosoft Office 365 is more than just email, it includes communication, storage, and productivity solutions, all of which integrate with your existing business systems, processes and data. Migrating to Office 365 means users can create, access, manage, and transmit business related information from...
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Mitigating the Risks of GenAI: Secure Your Data While Empowering Your Workforce

Over half of employees use AI to automate or augment job tasks. Even though there are many benefits as a result of these tools — employee enablement, productivity, time and resources saved — they also pose great risk to your sensitive and private data. AI platforms like ChatGPT and Google Gemini, collect the data submitted by end users to train their models. Any proprietary data submitted to these...
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Data Firm Left Records on 48 Million Individuals Online

LocalBlox, a data firm that bills itself as "a powerful, scalable and distributed data acquisition platform" is the latest company to mistakenly leave data out in the open on a publicly accessible Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 bucket. The company, based in Bellevue, Wash. left a slew of data online; 48 million records containing information on tens of millions of individuals including names, addresses, and dates of birth. The dataset also included data apparently scraped from Twitter handles, along with LinkedIn and Facebook profiles. Data from Zillow, a popular real estate site, has also been scraped and composited into the dataset. The company was notified of the unsecured bucket by researchers with UpGuard, a Mountain View firm that's had a knack for uncovering data sets like this as of late. The firm notified LocalBlox on February 28 and the bucket was secured later that day, UpGuard said Wednesday. The bucket contained a single 151.3 GB compressed file that decompressed to a 1.2 terabyte Newline Delimited JSON file. According to researchers, who combed through the dataset when they first came across it in a subdomain, “lbdumps,” on February 8, each record is in JSON format.