Dark data — masses of unstructured emails, social media posts, documents, photos and more — has bogged down companies for decades, yet it oftentimes remains overlooked. Extracting and eradicating non-value dark data will help make your organization less exposed to risks and liability in the event of a breach.
The 2021 Data Governance Trends report from Egnyte ranked security leaders' concerns around unchecked data growth, citing the danger of dark data repositories like company email accounts, messaging sites and cloud-based storage.
Reiknistofa Bankanna (RB), an IT service provider for Icelandic financial institutions, recently overhauled its security infrastructure with an array of physical security technology including cameras, access control, and video analytics through one unified interface.
A team of cybersecurity researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) has demonstrated that valuable user information can be exfiltrated by tracking smartphone touch movements to impersonate a user on compromised, third party touchscreens while sending emails, conducting financial transactions or even playing games.
The 2018 IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Index has found the number of records breached dropped nearly 25 percent in 2017, as cybercriminals shifted their focus on launching ransomware and destructive attacks that lock or destruct data unless the victim pays a ransom.
Last year, cybercriminals attacked the California-based Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, encrypting files crucial in running the hospital’s operating systems and demanding a ransom to restore them to working order.
