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Topics: Data security

Data Loss Prevention in Logistics

In the logistics sector, DLP plays a pivotal role in securing the multiple data streams involved in supply chain operations. Learn how you can protect your data in logistics with Safetica.

Securing Slack: The Power of Data Loss Prevention

Slack has become the go-to cloud-based collaboration tool for companies of all sizes. Read how to secure Slack with Safetica.

Data Loss Prevention in Government

Governments house a wealth of sensitive information, from classified data to citizens' records. Explore the complex world of government data breaches and learn how data loss prevention protects governmental institutions.

Data Loss Prevention in Education

As schools increasingly turn to digital tools, keeping educational data safe becomes crucial. Read how educational institutions can implement data loss prevention (DLP) strategies to protect the privacy of their students, alumni, and staff.

Exploring Crypto Privacy: Safeguarding Your Cryptocurrency and Personal Information

Maintaining the trust of customers is one of the crucial activities for crypto providers. Protecting their sensitive data is key to sustainable business growth and customer satisfaction. Read more about the challenges in the crypto sphere and how to protect your data.

Data Loss Prevention in the Automotive Industry

What are the unique challenges that the automotive industry faces? Learn how to mitigate them and keep your data safe.

Data Loss Prevention in Fintech

Let's delve into the challenges fintech faces in keeping data secure and what steps companies can take to safeguard customer information.

Australian Privacy Principles: The Scope, Purpose, and How to Comply

The 13 Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) are the cornerstone of the country’s privacy protection framework under the Privacy Act 1988 and regulate the collection, usage, and disclosure of personal data, applying to both government and private sector organizations within Australia.

Data Loss Prevention in Insurance Institutions

Read about what insurance companies should be doing to prevent data loss and data regulations and compliance in the insurance industry.

Why Should the Manufacturing Industry Use DLP? Top 4 Reasons

In this article, we will give you valuable insights and actionable information that can help you make informed decisions about implementing DLP measures.

BYOD Security Policy: Top Risks, Pros & Cons, and Best Practices

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) is a business policy that allows employees to use their personal devices, such as laptops, smartphones, and tablets, for work purposes. Read how to create BYOD security policies.

The Dark Side of ChatGPT: How AI Poses a Threat to Data Security

In this article, we’ll explore some of the ways ChatGPT is used to help businesses, how it can be a threat to data security, and provide tips on how businesses can protect themselves.

Why Should Healthcare Institutions Use DLP? Top 4 Reasons

In this article, we'll explore why healthcare institutions need DLP solutions to keep up with the latest technical developments and ensure that patient data is secure.

Data Loss Prevention in the Manufacturing Industry

As manufacturers embrace digitization, cybercriminals are increasingly creative when targeting this high-value sector. From data loss to intellectual property theft, the damage can be severe and can affect both business operations and reputation. What can your business do to increase data loss protection?

Departing employees: How to set offboarding processes and policies

The risk posed by departing employees is often overlooked, yet it can be significant and detrimental to a company's data security. What should you consider in the employee offboarding process?

Teal Organisations and the Importance of Data Loss Prevention

Teal organizations are unique in that they prioritize self-management, wholeness, and evolutionary purpose over traditional hierarchical structures and top-down decision-making. Read how to protect data in Teal organizations.

Protect Your Business: Why Smaller Businesses Must Prevent Data Loss

SMBs tend to underestimate cyber security, however, data loss can have a devastating impact on these businesses. Implementing effective data protection strategies is easier and more cost-effective than ever before.

Dedicated DLP vs. Integrated DLP: Which makes most sense for your organization?

While researching DLP solutions for your organization, you might’ve come across two different variants: dedicated DLP (also known as enterprise DLP) and integrated DLP. In simple terms, a dedicated DLP is a dedicated data loss prevention system. An integrated DLP is an extension to an already existing program used within the organization. Read more.

The Top 6 Biggest Data Leaks of 2022

Last year, that the average global cost of a single data breach was USD 4.35 million – a 2.6% increase from 2021. Read about the top 6 biggest data leaks of 2022, and find out why data protection is so much needed.

Top 4 reasons why financial institutions should use Safetica

One of the most vulnerable industries in the data protection realm is financial services. In the financial industry, the estimated average cost of a data breach was $5.97 million – the second highest only after the healthcare industry. That's not a small amount!

How to educate your employees about data security

Your employees need to live and breathe in a security-first mindset while they are working because that’s the only way to protect your organization’s, your partners’, and suppliers’ sensitive data. Let’s take a look at how to educate them effectively.  

Data Loss in Healthcare

There are a few best practices that companies from the healthcare sector can use to boost their data security (and patient trust) straight away, though – you’ll learn about those in this article. 

A successful anti-phishing campaign: What happens and how a DLP can help

Phishing is one of the top data breach originators, with losses caused by it in 2020 estimated at USD 1.8 billion, and putting in place a data loss protection solution should be a priority in every organization.

10+1 Tips to Secure Your Company’s Data on Business Trips

Do not forget about data security when you go on a business trip. Read our 10+1 tips and make sure your data and devices are safe.

5 Tips for IT Professionals: How to Help your Employees Work Safely

With the new approaches such as BYOD, hybrid workspace, and remote work, it is more likely to experience a data breach. Learn how you can help your employees to protect your data.

10+1 Tips to Secure Your Company’s Data while Traveling

It is now more common to work from abroad. Do not forget about data security while exploring new countries.

Differences between SaaS DLP and legacy on-prem Data Loss Prevention solutions

It can be too complex and heavyweight for small and midsized companies handle legacy DLP solutions. Luckily there’s an alternative – cloud-native SaaS DLP.

The Great Resignation as a Threat to Data Security

The Great Resignation is trend in which large numbers of employees have voluntarily been resigning from their jobs. Read how to prepare for the Great Resignation and not lose any data.

Safetica awarded 5 badges in the G2 Spring 2022 Reports

We are excited to announce that Safetica received 5 badges in the G2 Spring 2022 Reports. Find out more.

Ponemon Institute Study 2022: Data incidents caused by insiders up 34 percent from 2020

Ponemon Institute released its ​2022 Ponemon Institute Cost of Insider Threats: Global Report commissioned by the security company ProofPoint.

Data protection: All you need to know about data and why to protect it

Do you know where all your company’s data is and how it flows through your operations and processes? Read more about data protection – why it is important and how to do it best. 

Data Loss Prevention, Guide for 2022

Data is a company’s most precious asset, from copyrights and client lists to sensitive information about employees. Most data is now in electronic form. It is created and accessed through software, databases, and other tools, making it vulnerable to loss and theft.

2021 DLP Data Quadrant led by Safetica

SoftwareReviews named Safetica as award winner in 2021 Data Loss Prevention Data Quadrant. Get the in-depth report with DLP vendors comparison bellow.

DLP: How to prevent company data loss

How Safetica can help you to make sure your sensitive data such as personal data, strategic plans, customer databases, contracts etc. will not leave the company?

E-book: Protect Company Data in a Hybrid Work Environment

Companies use digital workspaces, flexible and remote work, and agile principles. Read our e-book and find out how to secure your data.

Download the Radicati Group Report: DLP Market Quadrant

Download the full report today, find out why Safetica is a proven leader and how its DLP solutions will help you prevent data loss and future-proof your business.

Using Messenger for company communication is a big risk

Read an interview with Zbyněk Sopuch, CTO of Safetica, about the risks of messaging platforms for businesses.

"Sometimes it is as much psychology as IT"

Zbyněk Sopuch, CTO of Safetica, explains how the DLP software is developed and what are the most important issues DLP needs to solve.

Broad home office exposes your company data

On average, one in ten companies in the Czech Republic has experienced sensitive data leaks. Learn how to prevent them during the epidemic.  

CCPA – the new data protection rules for California

Companies have only 3 months to adapt to the new rules for data protection brought by CCPA (The California Consumer Privacy Act).

What did 2018 bring and what security challenges will we face in the coming year?

We may no longer be afraid of GDPR, but data leaks are still scary. What important lessons did we learn in 2018? What are our predictions for online security for 2019?

Data Loss Prevention 2017 and 2018 in numbers

The year 2017 has seen countless attacks on sensitive data, a huge buzz around GDPR, as well as new threats.

State of cyber security in 2017 and what to expect in 2018

The year 2017 has seen countless attacks on sensitive data, a huge buzz around GDPR, as well as new threats. Let’s look back at what the year brought us in security and get a glimpse at what 2018 has in store for us.

Ransomware spreads across Europe. You never know when it can attack. How to defend?

Once a ransomware is inside the system it is very difficult to get it out. And expensive. But actually it is quite easy (and not that expensive) to protect the company data from such attacks.

38 questions and answers about GDPR

What does GDPR mean for my company? Who is the processor and the administrator? What about video records? We are answering your most pressing concerns about GDPR regulation...

The risk of external devices

USB flash drives, external drives, cameras or mobile phones make it easy and comfortable to transfer important data. On the other hand, they also bring a couple of security problems that we shouldn’t overlook.

How to protect IT against user mistakes

Ransomware, phishing, or data theft... a big part of present-day attacks relies on an ordinary user to open, intentionally or unintentionally, a door into the system for the attacker.

GDPR - the new data protection rules for EU

Companies have only 15 months to adapt to the new rules for data protection brought by GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). What does it mean for your company and how can Safetica help?

What IT security brings in 2017?

Whether it's a new legislation such as GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) or new trends concerning use of new technologies in companies, 2017 brings many changes and new risks that organizations should prepare for.

How we messed with boot-time drivers

One of our customers recently reported a problem with running our software in tandem with VMware vShield. Although the solution turned out to be quite simple, the investigation process revealed some interesting facts related to driver behavior at boot time.

6 key changes the new EU's General Data Protection Regulation brings

Although the Data Protection Regulation is not entering into force until 2018, taking steps to get your company protected against data leaks seems like a smart thing to do immediately.

How to write a highly scalable Windows Socket server (BBQ library is the answer)

Our developer Benny (Marek Strihavka) has put together a sample code showing you how to write a highly scalable Windows Socket server in C++.

Thin line between transparency and security

When a company starts to think about information security and protecting their sensitive data, there is very often a fear that new controls and technologies will have a negative impact on company culture.

Data security meets California Dreaming and Bohemian Rhapsody

Let's take a look at the new Czech cyber security legislation and how si California trying to be at the front of data protection. And also take some time to listen to relevant musical pieces.

Are psychologists better than geeks in stopping insider threats?

Behavioral psychologists could do better than IT professionals in stopping insider threats, said two IT security experts at a conference in JP Morgan’s London offices.

Central European investment to protect against data breaches

Analyst firm Gartner, in its current report on IT security in Central and Eastern Europe, predicts the accelerated implementation of systems to protect against data breaches.

Data leaks put Prague and Goldman Sachs on common ground

The ongoing case of Prague Integrated Transport with the computer firms of Xanthus and Aremic brings to mind the sordid example of Goldman Sachs, Sergey Aleynikov – and the Princess Bride.

Data protection, drunk driving, and the Florida Information Protection Act

The new Florida Information Protection Act (FIPA) passed this summer has a lot of commonality with efforts to reduce drunk driving -- even if the law does not elevate beverage consumption to the "special kind of personal data" level.

Verizon Data Breach Report: Finding methods to the security madness

The long-awaited Verizon 2014 Data Breach Investigations Report is out and it’s well worth reading.

Coders vs. actuaries in data protection showdown

Would you rather trust a coder or an actuary for your data security?  Getting an answer to this question has companies reaching for one of two very different approaches to data security: direct technology or risk hedging.

Data Loss Hero and Industry Buzzwords

The most influential person of the year is clearly Edward Snowden who set off a domestic and international avalanche as the public and governments reacted to knowledge about the US National Security Agency’s surveillance activities.

Would installing DLP/monitoring software have pushed the NSA out of its comfort zone?

The U.S. National Security Agency did not install the most up-to-date data protection systems at its Hawaii site before contractor Edward Snowden went to work and removed thousands of classified documents.

Hazards to setting up semi-free Wi-Fi in the workplace

Semi-free Wi-Fi is where a company gives almost free Wi-Fi access to its employees – along with a few monitoring safeguards over what employees can download, access, and upload with their smartphones.

Grinders won't delete your lost data

Under pressure from officials from Her Majesty’s government, the editors of the Guardian newspaper in the UK destroyed the hardrives and computer equipment that had been used in reporting on Edward Snowden and the wiretapping by the American National Security Agency.

Cyber-criminals take a closer look at small businesses

Small businesses reported faster growth in the rate of cyber attacks than their large, more visible competitors according to an Information Security Breaches survey by the UK's Department for Business, Innovation & Skills.

Social media in the office: Abstinence and “Be Nice” warnings are no cure

It's all about removing the uncertainty over social media use at the workplace. Social media isn't something to fight over. Feel free to use it, but just within the limits.

Pub(l)ic versus private data in the hospital

Huntington Memorial Hospital in California was fined $25,000 after an admissions clerk took a patient's mobile phone number and sent her a sex-based text message.

Striking a balance: Employees in social media and corporate cyber security

Our CTO Pavel Krátký discusses trust, Facebook, privacy, hacker breaches, and employee access to monitoring reports in Sri Lanka's business paper Daily FT.

Your data and the law

It's not enough to have a program that keeps your data from leaving the company. Sometimes you need to take hard evidence of employee misdeeds to court.

Edward Snowden: Where's the data?

It is not what Edward Snowden has said that has the United States government and its National Security Agency so nervous, it is what he has showed – or could still show – to other outside parties.

General disaster: What could have prevented Paula

Paula Broadwell, the paramour and biographer of CIA director David Petraeus, was found with large amounts of classified government documents. Could a military-grade Data Loss Prevention (DLP) solution have stopped this data breach from happening?

Data leaks in October: From foreign affairs to the IT department

There were over a half million instances of data loss during October, with much of the data leaking from traditional pillars of reliability such as governments, transit authorities, and banks.