This year, data privacy and protection is set to be more important than ever due to proliferating cyberattack surfaces and vectors -- a trend that Data Privacy Week 2022 has just made abundantly clear.
Mitigating the risk of data breach with techniques including proactive data loss or leakage prevention (DLP) has become crucial for organisations, as critical infrastructure protection specialist Opswat notes.
"Opswat’s Proactive DLP can help businesses keep Personal Identifiable Information (PII) private and mitigate threats by detecting and automatically redacting or blocking sensitive and confidential data in files and emails," says Opswat.
Businesses and other organisations benefit from learning more about how to manage and protect sensitive online data -- as well as knowing how best to respect individual customer data.
For example, Proactive DLP can be key to defences against cybercrimes targeting credit card numbers, social security numbers, IPv4 addresses, Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) or other private or proprietary information.
Proactive DLP can prevent data and information from leaving or entering organisational systems, supporting commonly targeted file types including PDFs and documents created with Microsoft Office.
"With the integration of optical character recognition (OCR), Proactive DLP also helps to block phishing documents and flag PII in images and non-searchable PDF files," explains Opswat.
Protecting threats to critical infrastructure and industry
Opswat solutions available via QBS include the MetaDefender Advanced Threat Prevention Platform for preventing and detecting threats on multiple data channels and from a diversity of sources -- including web, email, portable media devices such as flash drives, and client end point devices.
"Any file could be attempting to exploit a vulnerability to compromise a network. Single anti-malware engines, next-gen firewalls, sandboxes, machine learning, IPSes and proxy anti-malware solutions do not provide adequate cybersecurity protection on their own," says Opswat.
In addition, Opswat's MetaAccess platform confirms that organisational devices comply with security policies before accessing cloud applications such as Salesforce or Microsoft 365.
"MetaAccess is one solution giving your organisation secure network access and deep endpoint compliance. With this one platform approach, you can greatly simplify ongoing management, reducing time, effort and risk," explains Opswat.
"Access may come from remote locations, such as work from home, third party locations, and even through sensors associated with an Internet of Things (IoT)."
Contact the team at QBS to discuss your critical cybersecurity and infrastructure requirements.
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