As more insights continue to be unveiled from Verizon's DBIR report and a recently released report from the ONCD, governments and organizations are fighting to keep up with evolving threats. Get up to speed on these stories, the unmasking of LockBit's top admin, and more in this week's Friday Five.

Code hardening secures a system by minimizing vulnerability points where unauthorized access may occur, safeguarding data entry and extraction points.

Data risk management refers to the process through which an organization identifies, assesses, and mitigates data-related risks. Learn more about data risk management and some of the best data risk management practices in this blog.

Verizon's annual Data Breach Investigations Report topped this past week's headlines. Read about their findings, more on the fight to secure critical infrastructure, a malware threat impacting at-home workers, and more in this week's Friday Five.

Code protection refers to the measures and strategies used to secure and safeguard source code from unauthorized access, theft, and misuse.

In India, new CERT-In guidelines for security breaches have introduced new requirements for businesses to comply with, including one that requires organizations to report certain cybersecurity incidents to the office within six hours of discovery.

A major data privacy bill and proposed regulation have taken steps forward to becoming reality this past week. Meanwhile, China looms large as a significant cybersecurity threat and agencies are taking action to prepare. Catch up on these stories and more in this week's Friday Five.

An audit log is a document that records the activities within an application, system, or network. Learn more about audit logging in today's blog.

Catch up on all of this past week's headlines, including changes coming to water system cyber standards and personal data purchasing power, a familiar, yet updated malware threat, and more.

Data sanitization is the irreversible and permanent elimination of sensitive data from a storage device, rendering it unrecoverable or reconstructable.

Cybersecurity has become more critical than ever, with data protection being at the top of organizations' minds. Enter Secure Service Edge (SSE). Read on to learn more about the fundamentals of SSE, its key components, and how it can enhance organizations' data protection strategies.

The fallout of two major cyberattacks and the possibility of a federal data privacy bill took this past week's headlines by storm. Read about these stories and more all in this week's Friday Five.

Intellectual property risks refer to potential threats related to a company's IP, including patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets.

This past week, new cyber resources were shared for at-risk organizations, open source groups announced the development of new cyber standards, a new malware campaign leveraging Google Ads was called out, and more. Get up to speed with these stories and more in this week's Friday Five.

Today, companies need to demonstrate that they're making a “best effort” to manage the data they oversee; Digital Guardian's new SSE solution provides the information needed to manage data loss risk.

Too many cloud apps? Digital Guardian Secure Service Edge (SSE) can help organizations better understand and manage unstructured cloud sprawl.

While research suggests cybersecurity measures are mitigating Zero Day threats more effectively, threat actors are getting better at exploiting the threats that remain. Meanwhile, cyber threats related to AI continue to emerge, and CISA is refining its incident reporting requirements. Get up to speed on these stories and more in this week's Friday Five.

Code obfuscation involves modifying software code to enhance complexity, reducing readability to deter understanding and analysis.

More warnings about attacks against U.S. critical infrastructure surfaced this past week, along with global and domestic AI roadmaps, a new bill to protect Americans' data privacy, and more. Catch up on it all in this week's Friday Five.

Complying with International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) is key for U.S. government, manufacturers, exporters, and brokers of defense data. Learn how ITAR compliance works and what's regulated in this blog.