Prat Moghe

Knowing exactly where an organization's proprietary data lies and having the confidence that it's safe has never been more important -- or costly.

One of the biggest challenges facing IT organizations is pinpointing the location of critical data throughout the enterprise.

When it comes to database breaches, the real issue is lack of real-time insight into what is actually happening to the data.

PCI makes perfect sense. So why were so many merchants standing on the dock after the PCI boat has sailed?

Business process outsourcing (BPO) is a common practice these days, but the benefits of BPO also come with an increase in risk. This requires a new way of looking at data security — as an "inside-out" threat environment - that is, from the data core out and as a problem of insiders that needs to be monitored. Here is a primer for dealing with the security challenges posed by BPO.

When enterprise data met email and IM, important data began leaking out of corporations unnoticed and it spawned a new security problem called data leakage.

Its a sunny day somewhere thousands of miles away from your data center. A savvy hacker sits in front of his monitor. He checks the current black market rates for U.S. Social Security and credit card numbers then runs down his list of potential targets — a major university, a financial services company, two retail chains and an energy company.