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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...
Datasheet

IP Protection, Secure Collaboration, and Massive Scalability

About The CustomerA Fortune 50 company invested heavily into intellectual property to design and manufacture energy generation machinery. Employees used this to build the company’s competitive advantage. The company relied on “trust-based” access under the assumption that all employees were trustworthy. When a privileged user was caught attempting to steal proprietary data, it became obvious a ...
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Go Beyond One-Size-Fits-All Data Classification - Protect What Your Business Cares About

In today’s cybersecurity market, we are seeing more vendors than before offering solutions which claim to cover all your security needs under one roof.Sure, from a business efficiency point of view this may seem like a very tempting offer – but in reality is it all too good to be true? Many of the tools in a “one-size-fits-all” platform are essential, but packaged as they are for the standard...
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Data Classification to Get Ahead of Compliance

Information security leaders struggle with allocating scarce resources. Without accurate guidance on what data is sensitive (confidential intellectual property or regulated data), or public, (product data sheets) this can be a guessing game. Data classification serves as the strategic road map to define and implement your compliance, security, and business strategy.Join Digital Guardian to learn...
Blog

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.