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Read on for expert insights on the changing threat landscape, industry trends and best practices that your team can apply to its cybersecurity program.

How to Successfully Conduct a PII Data Audit
To comply with data privacy laws, regular pII data audits are critical. We discuss why they are important and how you can conduct one successfully.

5 Reasons Why Automating Vulnerability Management Reduces Cyber Risk
Vulnerability management ensures companies reduce their cyber risk. Here’s how automating that process can strengthen your security posture even further.

Why Your Business Needs Data Driven Cybersecurity
To improve data security and prevent attackers from stealing sensitive information, cybersecurity is critical. Here’s why it should be data driven.

Data Protection and Privacy Services: What Tools Do You Need?
Technology is key to successful data protection and privacy services. Here are some of the key tools to help enhance your data protection strategy.

The Top IT and Security Predictions for 2023
This blog explores how shifting global, industry and workforce factors will re-shape cybersecurity requirements and impact 2023 IT technology trends.

What is Cyber Asset Attack Surface Management?
Cyber asset attack surface management helps businesses solve persistent asset visibility and vulnerability challenges. Here’s what you need to know.

Why Visibility is Crucial to Successful Cloud Data Protection
Storing data on the cloud can bring a range of benefits, but is your business securing it? Here’s why visibility is critical to cloud data protection.

What are the Benefits of Data Classification?
Data classification is a critical component of any data protection and data compliance strategy. Here’s how you can benefit from data classification.

How Evolving Attack Vectors are Changing the Attack Surface
Cyber risk is growing at an exponential rate. In this blog, we look at attack vectors and attack surfaces, and what they mean for your cybersecurity.

How to Measure Data Loss: Everything You Need to Know
What exactly happens when data is lost, and is there a way of measuring that? We explore everything you need to know about measuring data loss right here.

What is the Primary Method of Protecting Sensitive Data?
What is sensitive data and what are the primary methods of protecting it from cybersecurity threats?

Why Your Business Needs a Modern Attack Surface Assessment
Still using traditional vulnerability assessments to protect your perimeter? Here’s why a modern attack surface assessment will better protect your data.

5 Fundamentals of Successful Data Security Management
Organizations collect, store and manage more data today than they have ever done before. Data security management is critical to protecting that data.

What is External Attack Surface Management?
Organizations today store an ever-increasing amount of data. That’s why it’s critical to implement a robust external attack surface management strategy.

LegalSec: Why Data Discovery is the Bedrock of Data Protection
Legalsec is a critical element when it comes to data protection and compliance for law firms. Here’s why data discovery is a crucial element of that.

What is the Purpose of Data Classification?
Businesses collect, store and use more data than ever before. Data classification can help to improve data protection and data compliance strategies.

How Does Data Classification Improve Data Loss Prevention?
To minimize their attack surface, organizations must implement data loss prevention. Explore why data classification and data loss prevention goes hand in hand.

What is CAASM, and How is it Different From Asset Management?
Today’s businesses lack the visibility they need to protect sensitive data. In this blog we answer a question that can change that, what is CAASM?

Insider Series: Law Firms and Cybersecurity - What's Changed?
In this blog, Cavelo CEO James Mignacca and cybersecurity strategist Mark Sangster talk through cybersecurity obligations and best practices for law firms.

What is Attack Surface Management and How Has it Changed?
The threat landscape to a business changes every day. Here’s how you can protect your company’s data through a robust attack surface management strategy.

What are Data Security Services?
Businesses collect a growing amount of sensitive data. Data security services help you better protect that data and comply with data privacy regulations.

What is Big Data Security?
The use of big data to gain meaningful business insights is expanding the surface attack risk of many organizations. Big data security can help.

Answering Your Most Common Data Loss Prevention Questions
Data loss prevention is critical for business success, but what is it? We answer your most common data loss prevention questions right here.

What is the Impact of Data Loss on Your Business?
The loss of data can be hugely damaging to small, medium and large organizations alike. In this blog we take a look at the impact of data loss on business.

Data Classification Tools: 5 Ways You Will Benefit From Automation
Finding data across your organization’s network isn’t easy. Here’s how automated data classification tools can help give you the visibility you need.

The Ultimate Guide to Data Security in the Manufacturing Industry
Want to improve your data security in the manufacturing industry? Check out this guide for an overview of everything you need to build your strategy.

Penetration Testing vs. Vulnerability Scanning: What’s the Difference?
Not sure what the difference is between penetration testing vs. vulnerability scanning? We answer all of your questions right here.

How to Improve Your Big Data Security Processes
How can your organization improve its big data processes so that you can mitigate your data protection and compliance risks? Find out here.

What Features to Look for in Data Classification Software
What is data classification software and how will your company’s cybersecurity strategy benefit from its implementation?

Insider Series: Managing Supply Chain Security Risks
In this blog James Mignacca and George Kehayas review factors driving supply chain risks and why every business should audit their supply chain vendors.

Cyber Insurance Requirements: How to Maintain Your Policy
Maintaining cyber insurance can be increasingly difficult and expensive. Here are some of the top cyber insurance requirements that businesses must meet.

The Top 8 Data Security Best Practices
Here's a list of the top eight data security best practices to help your organization mitigate cybersecurity risk and better meet compliance requirements.

What are the Differences Between Data Protection Act 1998 and GDPR?
In this blog we take a look at the Data Protection Act 1998 and GDPR to see how they differ, and what that means for your organization.

A Complete Guide to US Data Protection Laws
Is your business complying with the data privacy regulations in your state? Here's an overview of all US data protection laws.

How to Avoid Data Loss From Natural Disaster
Rain, flooding, earthquakes, fire - the list of threats is never ending. Here's how your business can avoid data loss from natural disasters.

What are the Consequences of Non-Compliance With Data Privacy Laws?
Data privacy laws has prioritized how organizations collect, store and use consumer information - or personally identifiable information (PII).

Insider Series: How Risk Management Committees Can Support Compliance and Insurance Requirements
In this blog James Mignacca and Ben Tercha cover risk management drivers, insurance requirements and how formalizing an internal risk committee can help.

How Much Does Data Discovery Cost?
The sensitive data within your organization grows every day, but do you have visibility into where that data is stored, and how it's being used?

Insider Series: How Shifting Regulatory Demands and the Evolving Threat Landscape are Changing Risk Management
Cavelo CEO James Mignacca and Vinod Paul, COO of Align explore how the cybersecurity landscape has changed.

Data Privacy vs. Data Security: What's the Difference?
When it comes to data privacy and data security, the two terms are frequently used interchangeably, but there are some fundamental differences.

Unstructured Data and What it Means for GDPR Compliance
GDPR compliance is an ongoing challenge for organizations. One of the biggest risks to GDPR compliance is unstructured data.

Data Protection: Answering Your Most Common Questions
Improve your data protection strategy and reduce your cybersecurity risk. To help, we’ve answered some of the most common data protection FAQs.

Remote Work Data Protection: 5 Ways to Ensure Your Data is Secure
Data protection requires building an inventory of all company-wide data, and then fixing vulnerabilities to strengthen the organization’s overall security.

8 Data Loss Prevention Best Practices to Protect Your Business
Firewalls and antivirus solutions can help against external security threats, but they do not address internal threats. Data loss prevention is crucial.

A Five Step Guide to Build a Successful Data Protection Strategy
An increasing number of companies will be looking to enhance, or even implement for the first time, their data protection strategy in 2022.

What is Data Discovery and Classification, and Why is it Important?
What is data discovery and classification? Let's answer that and look at how your organization can improve its data protection program.

What is Data Loss Prevention?
Demystifying small and midsized enterprise data loss prevention (DLP) and its two parallel streams: DLP technology and DLP strategy.

Using Data Discovery and Classification to Establish Security Outcomes
Cavelo CEO James Mignacca and IT VP Mark Dillon break down real-life challenges midsized enterprises face while scaling data discovery processes.

How to Become a CMMC Certified Supplier – and Why Certification Matters
Learn about the CMMC certification process, what it takes to become CMMC certified and how data discovery can help.

Log4j Zero-day Vulnerability: What You Need to Know
Breaking down what IT and security teams need to know about Log4j, CVE-2021-44228 and what actions to take to mitigate data exfiltration.

2022 IT Security Predictions and the (Non-Surprising) Links Between Them
Cavelo CEO James Mignacca breaks down future predictors and larger cybersecurity trends to watch (and prepare for) in 2022.

What are the CIS Benchmarks?
The CIS benchmarks is a guide that IT teams can use to institute controls and safeguards to protect against cyber-attacks and protect business networks.

How to Support and Protect Digital City Rollout Efforts with Data Discovery
Smart, connected and digital city projects are vital to communities, yet they introduce a number of security and data privacy challenges.

Understanding the 7 Data Protection Principles of GDPR
Identifying key data discovery and data classification requirements across GDPR articles.

Applying the NIST Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Frameworks
How data discovery and classification supports NIST cybersecurity and data privacy framework alignment, stronger security hygiene and privacy policies.

4 Tips to Help You Get a Handle on Unstructured Data Sprawl
Spoiler alert: cybersecurity and data privacy compliance audits become simpler when data is properly inventoried and classified.

Introducing the Cavelo Platform
Introducing the Cavelo platform for data discovery, classification, tracking and management.