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.

Protect Your Sensitive Content With These Ten Best Practices

by Cliff White September 30, 2022June 4, 2024 | Third Party Risk

Organizations are under constant attack by bad actors trying to access sensitive information like PII, PHI, and IP. Your third-party workflows, the channels your employees use to share confidential information...

Lost and Stolen Mobile Devices Are the Leading Cause of Healthcare Data Breaches

Lost and Stolen Mobile Devices Are the Leading Cause of Healthcare Data Breaches

by Cliff White September 23, 2022February 28, 2025 | HIPAA Compliance

A lost or stolen laptop, tablet, or smartphone can complicate a healthcare data breach, as a recent story from Texas makes clear. The thief who burglarized the headquarters of Sunglo Home...

Developers Beware: Poor Coding Practices Results in Poor Mobile App Security

by Cliff White September 23, 2022June 4, 2024 | Cybersecurity Risk Management

Enterprise organizations interested in developing their own mobile apps would benefit from reading HP Security Research’s new Cyber Risk Report 2015. The report presents an in-depth look at enterprise IT security...

Partner Data Breaches: You’re Only as Strong as Your Weakest Partner

by Cliff White September 10, 2022June 4, 2024 | Third Party Risk

A security system is only as strong as its weakest link. That’s one of the lessons your enterprise IT team can learn from the recent spate of partner data breaches....

Prevent Compliance Failures With Complete Content Auditability

by Cliff White August 15, 2022February 4, 2025 | Regulatory Compliance

The main goal of your secure content sharing channel is to protect your IP, PII, PHI, and other sensitive information. It is critical that you have complete confidence in this...

Lock Down Your Sensitive Data With Powerful Data Encryption

Lock Down Your Sensitive Data With Powerful Data Encryption

by Cliff White August 7, 2022February 28, 2025 | Managed File Transfer

If you owned a big, expensive diamond ring, would you leave it on the dashboard in an unlocked car or would you keep it locked in a safe and insure...

Lock Down Your Sensitive Enterprise Content to Prevent a Data Leak

by Cliff White January 24, 2022June 4, 2024 | Third Party Risk

Your enterprise content is everywhere. Literally everywhere. On laptops, phones, in on premise servers, and in the cloud. Employees can access content – much of it sensitive – from any...

Protect Your Third-party Workflows With Security Infrastructure Integrations

by Cliff White March 3, 2020June 4, 2024 | Third Party Risk

CISOs must use every tool at their disposal to protect their PII, PHI, and IP. Most security-first organizations spend millions of dollars on security tools from firewalls and hardened networks...

Maintain Control of Your Most Sensitive Content With a Private or On-Premises Cloud

by Cliff White December 12, 2019June 4, 2024 | Third Party Risk

Anyone who has ever manufactured and sold a product in a competitive market will attest to Benjamin Franklin’s truism, “the bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price...

Protect Your Digital Assets with Unified Access to Enterprise Content Repositories

by Cliff White December 4, 2019June 4, 2024 | Third Party Risk

A highly secure downtown office building has multiple layers of security. Employees must show identification in order to get through the front door and their badges only grant them access...

Secure and Empower Employee Workflows With Enterprise Application Plugins

by Cliff White November 5, 2019June 4, 2024 | Third Party Risk

There’s a fine line between protecting sensitive information from data leaks and making that information easy to share with trusted partners. Make the process too difficult for employees, and they...

Avoid Data Breaches With a Secure Inner Perimeter Around Your Digital Assets

by Cliff White August 8, 2019February 4, 2025 | Third Party Risk

Your secure content communication channel must control every file saved and retrieved from every enterprise content repository to provide complete protection against a breach. Global data security, governance, and visibility...

Balance Content Security and Content Access With Granular Governance

Balance Content Security and Content Access With Granular Governance

by Cliff White May 30, 2019February 4, 2025 | Third Party Risk

Every CISO knows that you can’t have privacy without security, however, you can have security without privacy. Multi-factor authentication, data encryption, and threat protection defend against external threats, but they...

5 Strategies for Protecting Sensitive Content in a Dangerously Connected World

by Cliff White November 28, 2018June 4, 2024 | Third Party Risk

The modern enterprise spends millions of dollars on cyber security, yet the modern CISO can’t say in any specific detail what information is entering and leaving the firm. How sensitive...

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