White Papers in Governance & Risk Management > Data Masking & Information Archiving

Beyond FTP: Securing and Managing File Transfers

FTP made its first appearance in 1971, and it hasn’t changed much over the years. Although it has become the standard for business-to-business file transfers, poor FTP implementation practices have left many businesses with severe security and management issues. There’s a better way. Download the white paper to...

How Aligned Is the Industry to NIST and HICP Best Practices?

As healthcare organizations introduce new technology into their environments, questions often arise as to how and where to allocate resources in order to best reduce cyber risk. This report—a collaboration between KLAS and the American Hospital Association (AHA)—is intended to provide high-level insights into the...

The Value of True File Integrity Monitoring: A Critical Control for Protecting Data Integrity

File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) is a technology that monitors for changes in files that may indicate a cyberattack. In many organizations, however, FIM mostly means noise: too many changes, no context around these changes, and little insight into whether a detected change actually poses a risk. Download your copy...

How Multi-Cloud Enables Data Strategy

Do any of these statements apply to your organization? Initially, you relied heavily on on-premises data centers. Then, the need to scale and innovate brought you to the cloud, but not without challenges. Your workloads are predominantly on-premises, but you're moving some of your data, apps, and services to the...

Leveraging Multi-Cloud to Defy Data Gravity

Organizations continue to move their workloads to multiple cloud providers and face a number of challenges. Whether it be infrastructure concerns or avoiding dreaded data silos that can lock business intelligence away from the center of the organization, even enterprises that carefully plan their implementations can...

Understanding the Importance of Data Stewardship

Download this white paper to learn about the trust gap and how to bridge it and the relationship between data stewardship and trust.

How Government Agencies are Improving their Data Collection Processes

Download this guide to learn how to digitize and consolidate forms into one central platform and uphold security and compliance standards in government.

7 Best Practices for Secure Enterprise Log Management

Log management is fundamental to enterprise cybersecurity, but many log management solutions are out-of-date or were never intended to address today’s security challenges in cloud and hybrid environments. Organizations need to quickly identify and resolve incidents from vast log repositories, discovering threats...

Data Access Governance for Securing the Modern Data Mesh

Learn how to embrace data democratization and be data driven, while efficiently managing the security of your data mesh.

CISO Perspectives: Data Security Survey 2022

The backdrop of this study is: Cloud migration. Remote work. Security at the edge. These are some of the many ways that the COVID-19 pandemic has permanently changed cybersecurity. At the same time, data security threats continue to rise. Whether it’s new social engineering attacks or the risk of sensitive data...

Splunk Data Security Predictions 2022

Our security experts predict an action-packed year, and suggest you buckle your seatbelt. Get the latest on key trends, including: Ransomware + supply chain = big new challenges. Are cloud providers too ripe a target? Threat intel is in for a makeover. Most of what you need to know about security you’ve...

Making the Move to Cloud-Based Archiving: A Step-by-Step Guide

Our digital world is generating a massive explosion of data coming from multiple communication channels. Legacy archiving systems are struggling to keep up. To ensure compliance, easily legal e-discovery and reduce risk, many enterprises are looking to migrate to a modern cloud-based archiving solution. It's a big...

Finding & Eliminating Sensitive Data in Logs

What do Facebook, Twitter, and Github all have in common? Data exposure incidents in recent years where even though they had locked down their data stores, credentials leaked into their log files creating painful, public security incidents. Modern software development practices, from microservices to CI/CD, make it...

TLS Versions: North-South and East-West Web Traffic Analysis

Shocking but true: 44 percent of East-West traffic is not encrypted. If you ever needed a reason to evaluate your own network, our new TLS research report is jammed with more numbers that will motivate you to do so. Researchers studied 275 billion data flows to reveal real-world metrics of SSL/TLS protocol usage, and...

5 Epic Fails in Data Security

Data security is on everyone's mind these days, and for good reason. The number of successful data breaches is growing thanks to the increased attack surfaces created by more complex IT environments, widespread adoption of cloud services and the increasingly sophisticated nature of cyber criminals. This paper...