
The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, known as the GLBA, was passed in 1999 under President Clinton. The goal of the GLBA was to update and modernize the financial industry. Today, it’s primarily used to protect customer and consumer information, with steep penalties for financial institutions that violate its privacy rules. Here’s what you need to know about the GLBA and its regulations.

Our team has been hard at work with continuous updates to improve and streamline the Nightfall DLP platform. We wanted to share with you the latest platform updates guaranteed to improve the speed at which security administrators and teams will be able to remediate incidents.

You probably don’t need anyone to tell you that, today, infosec and cybersecurity are challenging and fast-paced endeavors. In the last five years alone, we’ve seen a myriad of industry altering developments — from an ever expanding universe of privacy compliance legislation and the permanent entrenchment of hybrid and remote work, to growth in the size and scope of data breaches — the world of security has proven ever complex and ever-shifting.

As businesses and health organizations seek to strengthen cybersecurity, they’re turning frequently to compliance frameworks to help prioritize, guide, and improve decision-making and implementation. Two of the more popular compliance frameworks are the NIST CSF and the ISO 27001.

Observability (logs, traces, metrics) is a core tenet to building strong software systems. Logs are used to debug issues and check on system activity, traces provide valuable insights into system performance and architecture, and metrics allow engineering teams to closely track business metrics within their systems.

Data exfiltration, quite simply, is the risk of your data ending up somewhere it doesn’t belong. Though this definition might seem simple, understanding this risk is quite complicated — especially as companies migrate their data into the cloud. Companies that work remotely using cloud platforms like Google Drive, AWS, or Jira often struggle to maintain the visibility needed to ensure their data remains secure. This increases the risk of data exfiltration, which can often go undetected for weeks, if not longer.

The market for penetration testing is expected to reach $3.1 billion by 2027, rising at a market growth of 12% CAGR during this time. Fueled by the rising number of mega-breaches and more sophisticated attacks, IT teams are taking a more proactive approach, using penetration testing to validate and improve their security configurations.

Here at Nightfall we ensure that we are always using the most appropriate technology and tools while building services. Our architecture involves serverless functions, relational and NoSQL databases, Redis caches, Kafka and microservices written in Golang and deployed in a Kubernetes cluster. To effectively monitor and easily troubleshoot our services, we use distributed tracing across our services.

Data leaks are a type of data loss threat that often fly under the radar — making them potentially more damaging than a malware or ransomware attack. Compared to data breaches, data leaks put customer information at risk accidentally. Data leaks can lead to credit card fraud, extortion, stolen IP, and further attacks by cybercriminals who seek to take advantage of security misconfigurations.

We hosted a webinar alongside Bluecore CISO Brent Lassi to discuss data security risks facing high-growth organizations like his on SaaS systems like Slack. Watch the following clips to learn 5 important lessons about Slack and SaaS security that are worth keeping in mind this year.

BYOD — whether instituted as a formal policy or as an adaptation to the pandemic — opens a company’s systems and platforms up to hacking, data loss, and insider threat. IT teams need to be aware of these critical BYOD security concerns, as well as implement best practices to mitigate the risks associated with shadow IT.

Cloud security. Cloud architecture. Cloud storage. As you start scaling your business, you know “the cloud” is an important element of your IT capabilities. But, it can be a little confusing to understand the ins and outs of “the cloud” — especially when it comes to using cloud-based tools for your company to work remotely.

At the end of 2020, we hosted a webinar alongside Sisense's Chief Security & Trust Officer, Ty Sbano titled Securing Best of Breed SaaS applications in 2021. The discussion focused on reviewing the most important security trends of last year and how that should inform security programs this year. As 2021 continues to progress, these are the 4 trends and lessons we think are worth keeping in mind.

If the last year has taught us anything, “hope for the best and plan for the worst” should be the new mantra of business owners and IT professionals. No one could have predicted the global pandemic that wreaked havoc on industries and businesses around the world; yet, those companies with a business continuity plan were far better off than those without one.

Compliance regimes may seem burdensome, but the goal of these policies is to prevent a devastating data breach that can bankrupt a business and cause myriad problems for consumers. It’s important to understand the differences between compliance and security, as well as how data loss prevention (DLP) allows your organization to accomplish both objectives efficiently and affordably.

The Nightfall blog is a resource for information security professionals to learn more about the challenges we face in the industry. Every week, Nightfall publishes news and insights from the world of cloud security to help you stay current with the cybersecurity world and better prepare for threats before they become serious problems.

Strong data loss prevention (DLP) requires a multifaceted process that requires layering tools, policies, and approaches. In addition to having a range of network, endpoint, and cloud DLP solutions in place, businesses need a strong foundation of policies, guiding principles, and rules underpinning the approach to data security.

In a recent survey, 84% of organizations reported finding it difficult to maintain security configurations across their cloud services. Organizations across industries are struggling to protect their valuable information, in part because they don’t understand the extent of security measures built-in to cloud platforms. As a result, Gartner predicts that 95% of all cloud security failures (through 2020) will be primarily the customer’s fault.

Enterprise legal, compliance, and governance teams struggle to detect, manage, govern, and protect information in near real time. Similarly, litigation, HR and investigation teams struggle with data intelligence on information they have collected from cloud applications like Slack and Google Workspace.

Listen to Nightfall’s CTO, Rohan Sathe, and product specialist, Michael Osakwe, to learn about the increased exfiltration risks posed by code repositories. Learn how threat actors are incorporating targets like GitHub into their attacks, why this has become more common, and best practices to reduce your attack surface.

Git-based repositories can create environments where secrets & credentials are exposed without notice, especially in environments with lots of contributors and few guidelines regarding best practices for handling credentials or environments with external collaborators who might not be familiar with best practices

Healthcare organizations require an effective way to scale HIPAA compliance enforcement across their cloud applications without excessive time and resource commitment. This requires a high-accuracy solution capable of parsing context to identify PHI violations as they are defined by HIPAA
Data loss prevention (DLP) is an important part of data security and compliance in the cloud, especially for organizations regulated by HIPAA. Furthermore, healthcare teams using Slack must follow specific guidelines laid out in Slack’s Business Associate Agreement (BAA).
Data loss prevention (DLP) is an important part of data security and compliance in the cloud, especially for organizations using SaaS applications that store high volumes of data. Companies turn to DLP solutions to discover, classify, and protect their sensitive data in environments like Jira, and maintain compliance with regimes like GDPR, CCPA, PCI, and more.
Data loss prevention (DLP) is an important part of data security and compliance in the cloud, especially for organizations using SaaS applications that store high volumes of data. Companies turn to DLP solutions to discover, classify, and protect their sensitive data in environments like Google Drive, and maintain compliance with regimes like GDPR, CCPA, PCI, and more.

As a result of growing data breaches governments across the world are beginning to implement compliance regimes which require organizations to understand the quantity and nature of that data they’re ingesting. The Nightfall developer platform is designed to help organizations accomplish this with APIs that allow developers to stream data to our machine learning detectors for classification.
As organizations continue to rapidly adopt SaaS and cloud infrastructure, IT and security teams are becoming stretched. The expanding universe of business-critical cloud applications creates increased risk for the exposure of sensitive data like PII, PHI, as well as secrets and credentials. Cloud data protection is essential to ensuring employees follow best practices for handling sensitive data and that systems are configured in a manner that prevents unauthorized access.

