Important Office 365 Announcements from the SharePoint Conference

SharePoint File Storage Powering Office 365
SharePoint File Storage Powering Office 365

Microsoft made a ton of announcements at this week’s SharePoint conference in Las Vegas. If you’re an Office 365 tenant administrator, the health of SharePoint Online and what it and OneDrive for Business can do is important to you. Among all the fluffy stuff about intelligent intranets, there was some good news about improvements in administration, security, and network utilization, all of which will help other Office 365 apps too.

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DLP Systems and the Solutions They Offer

Data leak prevention (DLP) describes a group of policies that automates the detection and protection of sensitive and classified data. DLP systems not only prevent sensitive data from leaving an organization’s network perimeter, but they also can be u… Continue reading DLP Systems and the Solutions They Offer

Modern Database Security Buys Down More Risks for Enterprises

Pop quiz: how many data records are lost or stolen on an average day? 1 million? 3 million? 6 million? If you answered 6 million, you’re correct, according to the Breach Level Index. According to the Index, 14.7 billion records have been lost or … Continue reading Modern Database Security Buys Down More Risks for Enterprises

Teams Supports Office 365 Data Loss Prevention Policies

DLP blocks a Teams message
DLP blocks a Teams message

Microsoft Teams supports Office 365 Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies, which means that you can check for the sharing of sensitive data like credit card or passport numbers in personal chats or channel conversations. Quite why someone would want to share their credit card number with someone else in a chat is beyond me, but there’s no accounting for human taste.

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Unsanctioned Apps in the Enterprise

Today, organizations leverage a plethora of software applications to enhance productivity, increase collaboration, and evolve their businesses. Some of these applications are IT approved and are purchased with a license by the organization at large; f… Continue reading Unsanctioned Apps in the Enterprise

Finance: A Cloud Security Investigation (CSI)

In a recent Bitglass Security Spotlight, we enumerated the risks associated with failing to implement proper data and threat protection in financial services. Financial organizations are often targeted by hackers who are looking to seize personally id… Continue reading Finance: A Cloud Security Investigation (CSI)

RFC: Distribution of Google’s Proprietary DLP (Alternatively: Google’s Leaked Data Leak Prevention System)

This morning, at ~03:51AM GMT Google’s DLP leaked.

I purchased the leak on the spot on behalf of the community.

In the image, you can see unexpected outgoing data automatically encrypted.
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