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Proofpoint Unveils New Innovations to Combat Increasingly Common Threats

April 24, 2023 TD Staff Leave a Comment

Ahead of the 2023 RSA Conference, Proofpoint, Inc., the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based cybersecurity and compliance company, unveiled a host of innovations across its Aegis Threat Protection, Identity Threat Defense and Sigma Information Protection platforms. The company’s latest solutions empower organizations to stop malicious email attacks, detect and prevent identity-based threats and defend sensitive data from theft, loss and insider […]

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The Alleged U.S. Military Document Leaker Worked in IT

April 14, 2023 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

The FBI has arrested an alleged leaker of sensitive and highly classified U.S. military documents on the Ukraine-Russia conflict, arresting a 21-year-old Massachusetts Air National Guardsman and accusing him of posting the documents on a Discord server. That individual, Jack Teixeira, was an IT worker for the Air National Guard, working as a Cyber Defense […]

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Microsoft: IT Departments are in Insider Risk Crosshairs

October 7, 2022 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

As the amount of data being captured, copied and consumed in enterprises grows exponentially, organizations have had their hands full securing it from external attackers. However, organizations must also protect that data from insiders and preventing that data from leaving the organization and falling into the wrong hands. IT and security professionals are most often […]

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More Than A Third Of Former Employees Still Have Access To Company Data

February 10, 2022 Alyssa Borelli Leave a Comment

Leaving a job isn’t as simple as returning company issued equipment and key cards anymore. More than a third of former employees still have access to their company data, according to latest research from Beyond Identity, a passwordless authentication platform provider. Beyond Identity surveyed 1,121 employees and employers across Ireland, the U.K. and the U.S. […]

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