What Is a Baiting Attack?
How Does Baiting Differ from Traditional Phishing? A baiting attack is a subset of generalized phishing attacks. At its core, baiting is a form of phishing. However, a baiting attack…
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EFF to Gov. Pritzker: Veto Illinois’ HB 5511
The Illinois legislature recently passed House Bill 5511, which imposes a sweeping, device-level age-gating framework across nearly all internet-enabled hardware, operating systems, and online services. This well-intentioned but deeply flawed…
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GDPR Cookies: Consent & Policy Requirements
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) changed how organizations handle personal data, and businesses are heavily impacted by how the GDPR, cookies, and consent interact. In this guide, I explain…
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What Is AI Data Governance? Why Data Context Matters for AI
AI adoption is accelerating across every part of the enterprise. Organizations are deploying AI agents, copilots, assistants, autonomous workflows, and AI-powered applications to automate work, retrieve information, and support business…
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The Opportunity in the Obligation: Why Data Privacy Is Marketing Strategy
Originally published on ANA.net
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Top 5 Best Practices to Prevent a Data Breach
As organizations continue to collect, process, store, and share sensitive data across multiple cloud environments, SaaS applications, and across jurisdictions, the attack surface expands tenfold. With AI tools and systems…
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What is a VPN passthrough and do you still need it?
A VPN(new window) passthrough is a router feature that allows VPN traffic to move through your firewall and Network Address Translation (NAT)(new window). It doesn’t create the VPN connection itself,…
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Beyond the Prompt: Navigating the 3 Data Access Archetypes for Enterprise AI
As enterprises rush to deploy autonomous AI agents, a quiet realization is setting in across engineering teams: AI problems are ultimately data governance problems. We’ve spoken to many of the…
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Launch of Sensitive Data Platform v13.5 for DSPM
In a data-driven enterprise, sensitive data is everywhere and often hidden where it shouldn’t be. Whether tucked into legacy on-prem file shares, scattered across collaboration apps, or flowing through email…
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Social Engineering in Cybersecurity – Privacy Affairs
Understanding Social Engineering First, we need to understand what social engineering is and why it works. It’s important to have this foundation before we move on to a more in-depth…
