The battleground between threat actors and network defenders is increasingly coming down to one thing: data. It could be the sensitive personal...
Sep 8, 2022 l Data Protection, Data Breaches
Mitigating the Threat to Sensitive Data from Malicious Third Parties
Jul 28, 2022 l Data Protection, Data Breaches, Research, Trends, and Predictions
Report: Data-Centric Security Could Save Breached Firms Over $750K
Organizations are investing more than ever in cybersecurity. Recent research reveals that mean spending was up 60% year-on-year to reach $5.3m, and...
Jun 2, 2022 l Data Protection, Data Breaches
The Top Five Sources of Data Breaches and How to Reduce Their Impact
Corporate IT security teams are often accused of being too reactive in their approach to threat defense. Yet it’s unfortunately all too easy to fall...
May 12, 2022 l Data Protection, Data Breaches
Why Data Protection is the First Step to Mitigating Insider Risk
Much is written about the corporate threat from shadowy remote hackers. A cybercrime economy worth trillions has certainly made this disparate bunch...
May 6, 2022 l Data Protection, Data Breaches
As Ransomware Threats Mount, Focus Should be on Data-Centric Security
In the cybersecurity industry, ransomware has been the story of the past few years. Despite being around for over a decade or more, attacks...
According to IBM's Annual Cost of a Data Breach Report 2021, the average cost of a data breach is around $4.24 million. In the United States and...
We all make them. Silly, simple human errors and oversights. Call it a foible in human nature, but often it just exemplifies our inability to keep...
Jan 25, 2022 l Data Protection, Data Breaches
Supply Chain Attacks on the Rise - How can they be Prevented?
As 2021 wound down, many of us in the cybersecurity industry made predictions about continued attacks against targets positioned within supply...
The other day, my colleague Brett Bicker, who heads up comforte’s enterprise market development team, and I were on a Zoom call ready to record our...