The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is a California state statute intended to enhance California residents’ privacy rights. The state government passed CCPA in June 2018 and began enforcing it on July 1, 2020. Although several high-profile companies have already made headlines for violating this law, and California has been imposing fines, many companies are […]
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eBook: Mid-Year CCPA Trends Report 2020
Now that the July 1st enforcement date for the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) has come and gone, the question on every business’s mind is, “How many Data Subject Requests (DSRs) should I expect to receive?” DataGrail has crunched the millions of consumer records we’ve serviced through the first half of 2020 to answer that […]
Whitepaper: Ransomware Protection with Pure Storage and Commvault
Ransomware attacks continue to be top of mind for business and IT leaders. And for good reason. They compromise access to your organization’s lifeblood—data. Consequences can be dire: Pay perpetrators to (maybe) unencrypt your data, stumble with decryption tools, or gamble on recovering from backups. With millions of dollars spent annually to guard entry points […]
Whitepaper: Discovery-In-Depth, The Path to Data Intelligence
Privacy-centric data discovery (a must for data privacy and cybersecurity in today’s environment) requires a multi-pronged strategy to identify all types of sensitive & personal data in an organization – and that strategy starts with discovery-in-depth. Data discovery is a foundational element of any type of data management: from cybersecurity to data privacy to data […]
eBook: The Six Foundations of Data Privacy Regulation
The six most commonly discussed data protection regulations are the European Union’s GDPR, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) in the United States, Brazil’s LGPD, Canada’s Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) and the Australian Data Privacy Law. These regulations establish the who-what-when-where-how and why […]
eBook: The Habits of Highly Data-Secure Companies
New IDG survey reveals three technologies that are helping enterprises build immunity to data breaches, in and out of the cloud. Today’s businesses grapple with securing digital assets scattered across a variety of IT environments. These hybrid infrastructures might comprise a mix of traditional data centers, public cloud services, and on- and off-premises private clouds. […]
eBook: The State of Email Security 2020
Global business is interspersed with a diversity of industrial sectors, united by a single, common communication thread that is key to any business: email connectivity. Email continues to be the most popular attack vector, via organizations at their email perimeters, from inside the organization (through compromised accounts, vulnerable insiders, social engineering), or beyond the organization’s […]
Whitepaper: The Practical Executive’s Guide To Data Loss Prevention
There has been much confusion in the marketplace regarding data loss prevention (DLP) controls. There are numerous contributing factors, most notably a general lack of understanding in the vendor community about how data security works or what communicates risk to a business. Impractical processes were established, operational bottlenecks ensued, and the ongoing threat of data […]
eBook: How Consumer Privacy is Reshaping the Retail & Ecommerce Landscape
With Europe’s GDPR and California’s CCPA now in effect, privacy laws are catching up to consumers’ already high expectations around data privacy and consumer experience. So how’s a retailer to continue personalization for customers while staying continuously compliant with existing and emerging privacy regulations? We’re here to answer that question and more in this report, […]
Whitepaper: How to strengthen information security with data discovery
Today, every company is a data company. Every business, no matter which sector it claims to be in, is producing extraordinary amounts of data which is growing in size every day. We are all operating in the information age and data has become the most valuable commodity a business owns. There’s so much value locked […]