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Why You Should Care About the NY DFS Cybersecurity Regulation

In an already highly regulated industry like financial services, adding another compliance requirement should have little effect. However, when the New York Department of Financial Services (NY DFS)

Special Announcement: Atakama Releases Encrypted File Transfer

Atakama has released its newest feature, Encrypted File Transfer, which allows users to send encrypted files to third parties! Emailing files to third parties is essential for every business. But

Phishing: Not Just One Kind Of Attack

Phishing attacks utilize a wide range of ever-evolving techniques to steal data, from impersonating companies and executives to targeting and duping unsuspecting employees. This useful explainer

How to Eliminate Your Company's Cloud Security Exposure Risks

Data breaches, insider threats, inadequate cloud security, and misconfiguration represent just several ways in which network intrusions occur. CISOs and IT professionals work diligently to prevent

Eliminate the Threat of Exfiltrative Extortive Ransomware

In its initial iteration, ransomware used encryption to lock down a victim’s data and extended the “courtesy” of notifying victims that an exploit has occurred and demanded payment in exchange for

Go Beyond the Limitations of Multi-Factor Authentication to Protect Your Data

Multi-factor authentication (MFA) was built on the construct of checking your credentials in a way unique to you with something only you know, something only you have and something only you are. On

Atakama’s File Encryption Will Prevent Ransomware Exfiltration Threats

Ransomware attacks today look a lot different than in the recent past. They have expanded in magnitude, frequency, and severity. Past attacks were much smaller in scope and significantly less

Granular File Encryption Without Passwords

Threshold cryptography exists in obscurity relative to more widely exposed concepts in security: encryption, digital signatures and certificates, for example. Although academic cryptography experts

The New Normal and New Security Challenges Created by the Work From Home Model

Identity and Access Management: Good for Cybersecurity, Not So Much for Information Security

Let’s begin with the premise that cybersecurity and information security are not the same thing:

Render Zero-Day Attacks Useless on Your Network

Without fail, the daily headlines feature an organization suffering a security breach or a software vendor informing the public about vulnerabilities in their product. But perhaps the most

4 Root Causes of Data Breaches

Recent studies from the Ponemon Institute and IBM have found that the cost of a data breach for enterprises has increased 6.4% to $3.86 million per event. Meanwhile, the average cost of a data breach