AI-driven DLP

Precision Meets Intelligence: How GTB’s Hybrid Detection Model Delivers Data Security That Works Executive Summary Even today, with all the advanced technology, there’s still a need to protect sensitive data across the cloud, endpoint, SaaS, and hybrid environments.  Most Data Loss Prevention (DLP) / Data Security vendors offer enterprises a [...]

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DLP to Comply with Amazon DPP

Complying with Amazon’s DPP: Why You Need Real DLP, Not Just Alerts How to Use DLP to Comply with Amazon’s Data Protection Policy (DPP) with GTB Technologies® If you’re a seller, developer, or logistics provider handling Amazon customer data, you’ve likely encountered Amazon’s Data Protection Policy (DPP). And if you haven’t, [...]

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GTB the Data Centric Control Point

GTB: The Data-Centric Control Point Enterprises Need In today’s hybrid environments, control has become fragmented. Security decisions are scattered across identity platforms, CASBs, cloud-native tools, and endpoint agents—each offering partial visibility, inconsistent enforcement, and plenty of false positives.  But data is the common denominator. It flows across every identity, every [...]

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Best DLP

Eliminating Triage: GTB Technologies Approach to Accurate Data Loss Prevention

Eliminating Triage: The GTB Technologies® Approach to Accurate Data Loss Prevention   Executive Summary In today’s threat landscape, most data loss prevention (DLP) systems are burdened by imprecision, triggering floods of false positives and necessitating human triage layers. This model is inefficient, costly, and error-prone. GTB Technologies’ DLP that Workstm  suite changes [...]

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Bridging the Gap: How GTB Technologies® Unifies Data Security with DSPM, DLP and Data Security Platforms

How GTB Technologies ® Unifies Data Security with DSPM, DLP, and Data Security Platforms In today’s digital landscape, data is one of an organization’s most valuable assets. However, this value brings significant risk. Data breaches, unauthorized access, and compliance failures can have severe repercussions, making effective data security crucial. Enter [...]

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Safeguarding Intellectual Property with GTB Data Security That Works®: The Power of Real-Time Code Detection

Safeguarding Intellectual Property with Data Security That Works® The Power of Real-Time Code Detection In today’s digital landscape, intellectual property (IP) is one of the most valuable assets a company can possess. From groundbreaking software algorithms to innovative design codes, protecting this IP from unauthorized access and potential theft is [...]

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The Problem of False Positives in Traditional DDR and DLP Solutions

Navigating the Complexities of Securing Unstructured Data Challenges in Securing Unstructured Data Unstructured data, encompassing emails, documents, multimedia files, and more, poses unique security risks due to its decentralized nature and varied formats.   Traditional security approaches often struggle to monitor and safeguard this data effectively, leaving organizations vulnerable to data [...]

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Cybersecurity Failures Due to AI

AI’s Impact on Cybersecurity: Unintended Consequences The Double-Edged Sword of AI in Cybersecurity Artificial Intelligence (AI) has revolutionized many aspects of our digital world, bringing unprecedented advancements in automation, data analysis, and threat detection. However, like any powerful tool, AI also has a dark side, particularly in the realm of [...]

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Unveiling the Flaws in Data Loss Prevention: Rethinking Data Security with GTB’s “Data Security that Works®” Solution

Unveiling the Flaws in Data Loss Prevention: Rethinking Data Security with GTB’s Data Security that Works® Solution In today’s digital age, safeguarding sensitive information is non-negotiable. With the escalating cyber threats, organizations are turning to Data Loss Prevention (DLP) solutions to fortify their defenses. These solutions promise to shield against [...]

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What is the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification CMMC?

What is the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification CMMC? Understanding CMMC and Enhancing Cybersecurity with GTB’s Data Security that Works® Currently, the ability to guarantee strong cybersecurity measures is paramount, particularly for organizations handling sensitive information, especially those operating within the defense industrial base (DIB). The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) [...]

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Unmasking Unstructured Data Security: The Challenge of Inaccurate Classification Labels

Unmasking Unstructured Data Security: The Challenge of Inaccurate Classification Labels   In the realm of data security, unstructured data poses a significant challenge. As organizations strive to fortify their defenses against potential threats, the implementation of data classification tools has become a common strategy. However, a critical issue arises when [...]

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Mastering Data Protection: Halting Data Loss by Addressing Employee Behavior with GTB Data Security Solutions as your Guide

Mastering Data Protection: Halting Data Loss by Addressing Employee Behavior with GTB Data Security Solutions that Workstm as your Guide In the era of digital vulnerabilities, data loss poses a significant threat to organizations. Embark on a journey with GTB Data Security Solutions as your guide, discovering the essential steps [...]

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Strengthening Cloud Data Security

Strengthening Cloud Data Security withData Loss Prevention (DLP) In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, cloud computing has emerged as a cornerstone of modern business operations. As organizations increasingly adopt cloud services to enhance efficiency, scalability, and collaboration, the importance of robust cloud data security cannot be overstated. Recent news highlights [...]

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Data Security and Decision-Making

The GTB Data Protection Platform’s Role inInsider Threat Defense, Risk-informed Choices, Malicious Data Exfiltration Prevention, and Compliance In the dynamic realm of cybersecurity, businesses encounter multifaceted challenges in upholding the integrity of their sensitive information against insider threats, meeting regulatory standards, and empowering staff to make judicious choices. The GTB [...]

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Machine Learning False Positives

How inaccurate is machine learning? Machine Learning is Very inaccurate The accuracy of machine learning models can vary depending on various factors such as the quality and quantity of training data, the complexity of the problem being solved, the algorithm used, and the tuning of hyperparameters. In general, machine learning [...]

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The Achilles Heel of Data Protection

What is the Achilles Heel of DLP & Data Discovery Solutions? Answer: The detection accuracy    A virtual zero false positive rate is found to be key to the success of Data Loss Prevention (DLP) systems for several reasons: Data protection: DLP systems are designed to identify and prevent the unauthorized [...]

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How does Accurate Sensitive Data Detection Improve Data Governance

Data Governance & Accurate Detection Accurate sensitive data detection plays a critical role in improving data governance. Data governance refers to the overall management of data assets within an organization, including their security, privacy, availability, and usability. Sensitive data, such as personally identifiable information (PII), financial information, and health records, [...]

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2023 Gartner Market Guide for Email Security

The 2023 Gartner Market Guide for Email Security The Gartner Market Guide for Email Security[1] is a comprehensive report that provides insights into the current state of email security solutions, their effectiveness, and the latest trends in the market. The report is an essential resource for organizations seeking to improve [...]

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Insider Threat and DLP

Insider Threat and DLP Insider threat refers to a security risk posed by individuals within an organization who have access to sensitive information or systems. This could include employees,  third-party vendors,  contractors and malware. Insider threats can occur unintentionally (e.g., through careless actions or by falling for phishing scams) or [...]

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What are the Next DLP Market Disruptions

What are the next Data Loss  Prevention (DLP) Disruptions? Data Loss Prevention (DLP) is a technology used to prevent sensitive or confidential data from being shared or accessed by unauthorized parties.  While others need to play catchup in the below categories, GTB DLP has led the way in: Artificial Intelligence [...]

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2022 Market Guide for Data Loss Prevention (DLP)

Industry thought leader Gartner recently published its July 2022 Market Guide for Data Loss Prevention (DLP)[i]. In the thirteen-page report, Gartner laid out the most pressing needs of business networks, the data security challenges they face, and the most effective solutions. Problematic Trends The researchers first turned to the more [...]

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Business Email Compromise (BEC)

Fighting business email compromise (BEC) has become one of the top challenges for enterprise security professionals. The cost of falling victim to BEC incidents has been on a sharp uptick for years, with hackers discovering more and more exploits in an increasingly vulnerable domain. This pattern began to be noticed [...]

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Why Accuracy is Critical to Your Data Security Strategy

With digital advancement, data privacy and protection is crucial. Comprehensive data protection strategies are effective when businesses have complete visibility and transparency into data. Enhancing data privacy accuracy is critical for improving your organization’s overall security posture. Many organizations are unable to accurately detect sensitive data when on-premise or syncing [...]

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SASE Blindspots – Endpoint DLP

SASE on the Edge The new global business reality has created a slew of new challenges on the data protection front. Changes to network configuration and norms in company system access have made many traditional security models inefficient if not completely obsolete.   Trends in global commerce adapting to the [...]

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Data Risk, Intelligence and Insider Threats

Data Risk, Intelligence and the Insider Threat When it comes to securing networks in today’s business environment, the single biggest challenge firms must contend with is that of the insider threat. While the term is typically associated with corporate espionage or perhaps disgruntled workers, this threat is mostly not caused [...]

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UBA, ITM and Enterprise DLP

User Behavior Analytics, or UBA, is one of the most important developments in digital data protection to emerge in the past several years. UBA is an advanced cybersecurity process designed to detect insider threats, primarily those connected to targeted attacks, financial fraud, and especially data exfiltration. By analyzing regular patterns [...]

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Cloud Office Security

Cloud Office Security   With the large-scale shift to the cloud in recent years, new challenges have arisen in the arena of data loss protection.   Companies have had to adapt their DLP and data security protocols to suit their evolving approaches to data storage.   Gartner Advice   While [...]

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A Gartner Cybersecurity Report

Cybersecurity is really a Business Decision   Back in February Gartner produced published a cyber risk assessment entitled “The Urgency to Treat Cybersecurity as a Business Decision”[1] In this paper, Gartner senior analyst Paul Proctor describes many important trends within the cybersecurity side of business, as companies are being forced [...]

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Compliance for Cyber Liability Insurance

Compliance for Cyber Liability Insurance With the threat of data breaches now firmly part of today’s operational risk, data security insurance has become increasingly sought after by businesses. Insuring the data-sphere is now a rapidly expanding field and is on the fast track to becoming a multi-billion dollar industry. Data [...]

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CCPA, COVID-19 and Data Security

CCPA, COVID-19 and Data Security In January, the CCPA went into effect, but enforcement was delayed until California’s Attorney General Xavier Becerra finalized the underlying regulations, or July 1, 2020.  On June 1, the Attorney General of California submitted the final regulation package for the state’s comprehensive data protection law, the [...]

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Law Firms Breached!

In one of the more sensational data breaches in recent times, media and entertainment law firm Grubman Shire Meiselas & Sacks was hit with a cyberattack that affected some of its most high profile clients.   According to a Variety report, the breach compromised some 756 gigabytes’ worth of information [...]

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The Public Cloud  Is it Secure?

The Public Cloud.  Is it Secure?   In today’s business environment, data is everything. With data volumes increasing exponentially, the cloud has become the go-to for many companies to store their vital information. Offloading data storage and management has worked wonders. Firms no longer have to rely on in-house storage [...]

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False Promise of Blanket Encryption

The false promise of blanket encryption Why data needs to be inspected before its put under lock and key With cyber-attacks on the rise and compliance with regulatory regimes like HIPAA and GDPR becoming more urgent, businesses have been turning to encryption as a catch-all tactic to assure IP and [...]

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What is Data Loss Prevention Shelfware?

What is Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Shelfware? With the huge volume of sensitive data companies must deal with today, it’s no wonder data loss protection (DLP) still tops the list of administrator concerns. Despite the attention, however, it seems that getting DLP right remains easier said than done. Even major [...]

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Supply Chain Risk and Cybersecurity

Supply Chain Risk: The importance of vetting 3rd party vendors and their data protection tools   Modern organizations are increasingly interconnected, with complex supply chains extending across continents and categories. While this brings a range of business benefits, it also brings risks. Cyber-criminals understand how data is shared between links [...]

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Business Email Compromise

Business Email Compromise   Among the growing threats within today’s cyber-sphere, the trend of Business Email Compromise, or BEC, is certainly nearing the top of the list.   Broadly defined, BEC is a type of sophisticated scam targeting companies who conduct wire transfers, especially those with suppliers abroad.   The [...]

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Discover Dark Data

Information overload.   One of the key phenomena that has come to define the digital age.   The consequences of this information glut cover a wide spectrum.  From the analytical perspective, finding answers to important questions and identifying what constitutes relevant information, has become increasingly difficult for businesses seeking to [...]

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Air Gap Data Protection

Among all the methods for securing digital data, the policy of air-gaping is certainly the most extreme. Drastic Measures As it’s name would imply, air-gaping is a security protocol that physically isolates a machine from a network.   Air-gaping most commonly involves cutting off a computer from the World Wide Web, [...]

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NIST SP 800-171 CUI Compliance

How to stay compliant with NIST SP 800-171 If you’re part of the US federal government supply chain, at some point you’ll have heard of NIST. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) sets out data security mandates for government departments and agencies. In 2017 it implemented a sweeping [...]

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Big data, heavy data & DCAP

Big data, heavy data & DCAP With information volumes surging and compliance burdens growing, enterprises need a new approach to data security   By 2025 humans will have generated 180 zettabytes of data [i]– or 180 trillion gigabytes. That’s a lot, and well up from the mere 10 zettabytes we’d [...]

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Dangerous Cyber Attack Techniques Part 2

Dangerous Cyber Attack Techniques Part 2 Password Reuse and Weak Passwords The weak password is far the most common factor resulting in the compromise of networks worldwide   Research has shown than over 80 percent of all data breaches are caused by stolen passwords. And hackers manage to get their [...]

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Inaccuracies of Machine Learning

Inaccuracies of Machine Learning   Automation has found its way into every major technical industry.   And it’s no wonder why.   Streamlining operations with machines increases productivity and efficiency, especially for fields where large volumes of information are a factor.   When it comes to data loss prevention however, [...]

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2019 leader data protection

GDPR and CCPA Update

GDPR and CCPA, An Update A look at the compliance picture 3 months into the international year of privacy Now that we’re a few months into 2019 it’s worth taking another look at the impact of recent sweeping privacy bills, in particular the EU’s General Data Protection (GDPR) regulatory regime, [...]

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Data Security and Source Code Protection

Data Security & Source Code Protection As far as sensitive data goes, few pieces of information rank higher then program source code. Source code is highly sensitive proprietary information, making up the program instructions for any application in their original form. The More Sensitive, the Bigger the Risk For years, [...]

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2019 leader data protection

2019 The Year of Data Regulations

Data regulation is now a strong, permanent feature of the IT landscape. Over the past year, a series of sweeping regulations have come into force that have brought change on entire industries. Global business will have to operate in a new data environment in 2019.  With the year coming to [...]

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Addressing Insider Threats with Cybersecurity

IT Technology Our ever expanding IT technology is creating major changes in the way enterprises handle their data. While the expansion and diversification of computation tools has brought tremendous growth to the IT industry–as well as the business that utilize them–the new trends have come with a price. As organizations [...]

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Data Centric Auditing and Protection

Today is the era of big data.   The volume of information that requires storage, processing, and assessment is growing at an exponential rate.   What this means for enterprises, is that new methods for managing digital data are becoming a necessity.   Nowhere is this need felt more than when [...]

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Cloud Data Protection

The shift to the cloud.   It’s one of the IT world’s fastest growing trends. Cloud storage has brought about a revolution in data management, allowing enterprises to store and process large quantities of data without dealing with the costs and maintenance of on-site hardware. More importantly, the cloud has [...]

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Zero Trust Data Protection

Zero Trust Data Protection   Out with the Old Conventional security models, those based on firewalls, IDS, and the like, operate on the outdated assumption that “everything on the inside of an organization’s network can be trusted”.   The contemporary threat landscape facing IT has shown that this is simply [...]

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Blockchain the Pros and Cons

In an era where cyberattacks can paralyze entire networks, the need for effective, reliable IT security has become paramount.   Some think they have found the silver bullet in the war against hackers. The Blockchain Revolution   When Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto, whose true identity is still unknown, revealed his [...]

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Insider Threat and 3rd Party Liability

PageUp and the 3rd Party Liability Problem 3rd Party Liabilities   The tech world was thrown into frenzy over the recent hack of international HR service provider PageUp. In late June, chief executives reported “unusual activity” in its IT infrastructure.  An investigation was launched and emergency notifications were distributed to [...]

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Fileless Malware Taking on the Threat

Taking on the Threat of Fileless Malware Over the past two years, the IT industry has faced an important shift in the way cyber criminals go about their attacks.   Some of the biggest names in the field of cyber security have been tracking the growing threat of fileless malware [...]

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