Visualize Everyday Workflow Threats to Prevent Data Breaches
Do you know where your organization keeps its PII, PHI or other IP? Are they on-premise or in the cloud? Do you know who has access to them? Are all...
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Posts by Cliff White
Cliff White, VP of Engineering, Cover
Cliff White is the VP of engineering at Cover and the former CTO at Kiteworks. He has more than 15 years of experience in the software industry and web-based technologies. He has managed global engineering teams and advised C-level executives on software product engineering and best practices. Before joining Kiteworks, Cliff developed highly scalable software for imageshack.com, an online media hosting company and one of the most visited websites on the internet. Previously, he led the engineering function for rentadvisor.com, a peer review and recommendation website for rental properties before it was acquired by apartmentlist.com. Cliff holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of California at Santa Cruz.
Preserve IP and PII With Dynamic Governance Over External Workflows
Internal file threats entail a breach of sensitive information from secure content stores to unauthorized third parties. To prevent them, you must ensure that all sensitive files are saved to...
Remote Wipe: A Must for Mobile Security
As more employees use smartphones and tablets to share sensitive information, remote wipe – the remotely controlled deletion of some or all of the content on a mobile device –...
Eliminate Shadow IT With Secure Content Access That Doesn’t Slow Workflows
Securing sensitive data cannot sacrifice the simplicity of sharing it, otherwise users will circumvent the security. Users expect easy online access to the sensitive information they need to get work...
Ransomware Protection in the Age of WannaCry: How to Limit the Impact of an Infection and Speed Recovery
If you read IT security news (or, quite frankly, any news at all), you’re familiar with the global WannaCry ransomware attack that was launched recently. It’s a sobering lesson in...
Detect Anomalous Activity Ahead of a Data Breach With Heuristics
No one knows your business better than you. You know when it looks normal or when it looks strange. If you don’t have an office in Shanghai, then why are...
Enable Employee Workflows While Preventing Costly Data Breaches
User apps, such as email and file sharing, define an external perimeter where content enters and exits your organization. Enterprise apps and storage repositories define an internal perimeter around your...
Control Third-party Communication Apps to Protect Your Third-party Workflows
Much like a busy office building with employees and guests coming and going, it’s impossible to monitor all information leaving and entering your organization. Everyday third-party communication apps, such as...
Protect Your IP With Complete Visibility Into Every Sensitive File Exchange
What if you could see every exchange of sensitive content between your organization and your customers, your vendors, your partners, your attorneys, your investors, and all other external parties? Where...
Six Principles for Securing Sensitive Enterprise Content in a Hyper-connected World
To succeed in today’s hyper-connected world, businesses, governments and NGOs must enable easy online collaboration across the extended enterprise. Employees, suppliers, partners, investors, customers, doctors, patients, constituents and other stakeholders...
Build a Holistic, Proactive Defense Around Your Business Workflows
Complete protection against external workflow threats requires a holistic defense that spans the entire threat surface. Every external file transfer must be routed through a secure conduit that extends across...
Keep Malicious Actors Out of Your Private Business Workflows
External file threats introduce a malicious file into the organization under the guise of an everyday workflow, generally with the help of an end user. A phishing email with a...
Achieve Data Security with Strong Internal and External Perimeters
Securing your organization’s most sensitive content is analogous to securing a busy office building. If you’re in charge of security in an office building, you must protect your tenants amid...
5 Stratégies pour Protéger le Contenu Sensible dans un Monde Dangereusement Connecté
L’entreprise moderne dépense des millions de dollars en cybersécurité, pourtant le CISO moderne ne peut pas dire en détail spécifique quelles informations entrent et sortent de l’entreprise. Quelle est leur...
Bauen Sie eine ganzheitliche, proaktive Verteidigung um Ihre Geschäftsabläufe herum
Ein umfassender Schutz vor externen Workflow-Bedrohungen erfordert eine ganzheitliche Verteidigung, die die gesamte Bedrohungsoberfläche abdeckt. Jeder externe Dateitransfer muss über einen sicheren Kanal geleitet werden, der sich über den gesamten...