Collaborate Disseminate
While cybersecurity professionals are certainly aware of the growing threat posed by sharing data with third parties, many seem to lack the urgency required to address this challenge. If there is one work-related New Year’s resolution I’d like CISOs to… Continue reading CISOs: Make 2020 the year you focus on third-party cyber risk
Box has always had to balance the idea of sharing content broadly while protecting it as it moved through the world, but the more you share, the more likely something can go wrong, such as misconfigured shared links that surfaced earlier this year. In an effort to make the system more secure, the company announced […] Continue reading Box introduces Box Shield with increased security controls and threat protection
Box Inc. today moved to secure the content flowing through its namesake document sharing and management platform by making available Box Shield, a set of threat detection and governance controls that can be applied to any type of file. Jeetu Patel, ch… Continue reading Box Shield Embeds Security Controls in Document Service
Senator Ron Wyden has written to NIST asking for guidance and training for government staff in how to share files securely. Continue reading Government agencies still send sensitive files via hackable .zips
In the most embarrassing security incident so far in 2019, file sharing service WeTransfer has sent users’ files to the wrong inboxes for at least a full day last week. Worse still, the company says it can’t figure out what happened. WeTran… Continue reading Yikes! WeTransfer sends users’ files to the wrong people, says it doesn’t know what happened
How to protect yourself from being *affected* by malware, even if you’re not yourself *infected*. Continue reading Can you get hit by someone else’s ransomware? [VIDEO]
Organizations storing data and documents they work on in the cloud is a regular occurrence these days. The cloud offers scalability in terms of storage and cloud services often provide helpful folder- and file-sharing capabilities and content control m… Continue reading When it comes to file sharing, the cloud has very few downsides
Easily guessable URLs led to what should have been big companies’ very private data. Even Box itself was found to be exposing folders. Continue reading Misconfigured Box accounts leak terabytes of companies’ sensitive data
Mozilla has released the finalized version of Firefox Send, its free encrypted file transfer service that allows users to share files from any browser. With Send, users can securely share files of up to 1GB in size (up to 2.5GB if they sign up for a fr… Continue reading Mozilla releases Firefox Send, a free encrypted file transfer service
Companies that use Box for sharing files and folders inside and outside the company are inadvertently leaving sensitive corporate and customer data exposed, cybersecurity firm Adversis warns. Their own research discovered much non-sensitive data but al… Continue reading Is your company leaking sensitive data via your Box account?