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We received an incredible 35 badges across various data security categories. We're also super excited to have picked up some new badges in Best Usability, Easiest Setup, and Best Relationships.

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Global Data Protection Regulations and Major Trends (Updated for 2024/25)

Data protection laws are changing fast. With new regulations emerging worldwide, businesses need to stay on top of compliance requirements to protect their data, avoid penalties, and build trust with customers.

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The Gen AI Dilemma: Strategies for Balancing Innovation and Data Security

The rapid adoption of generative AI tools like ChatGPT and its competitors has revolutionized business productivity. But with this surge in usage comes a real and pressing question: How do businesses balance leveraging these innovative tools while safeguarding their sensitive data from AI data security risks?

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Data Encryption: How It Works and Why Your Business Needs It

This article breaks down the essentials of data encryption in a straightforward, easy-to-understand way. You'll learn how encryption works, the key algorithms like AES and RSA, and how to apply these tools to secure your organization’s data—whether it's stored on your servers or in transit across networks.

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Strengthening Data Loss Prevention (DLP) in AWS

A comprehensive guide to Data Loss Prevention (DLP) in Amazon Web Services (AWS), outlining key features and strategies for protecting sensitive data. Explore how integrating Safetica can enhance AWS's native DLP capabilities.

Product updates Blog articles

Have You Discovered the New Safetica?

In April 2024, Safetica unified its product offerings into a single, comprehensive data security solution. Take the next step and discover the power of Safetica.

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20 Badges in the G2 Summer 2024 Report Go to Safetica

With pride, we have secured 20 badges across various categories such as Cloud Security, Data Security, Data Loss Prevention, User and Entity Behavior Analytics, and Data Discovery.

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How to Create a DLP policy in your organization

In this article, we'll cut through the jargon and get straight to the heart of DLP policies for mid-size businesses and offer practical steps to guide you through the process of crafting and implementing your own policy.

Data security Blog articles

7 Insider Risk Management Strategies for a Mid-Size Enterprise

In this guide, we're breaking down insider risk management specifically for SMBs, giving you practical strategies and actionable tips that’ll help sooth your concerns.

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What is Data Discovery? And what are its methods?

In this article, we'll navigate through data discovery methods, phases, and best practices, shedding light on its transformative power so that you can set your business up for success.

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What is Sensitive Data and How Companies Can Protect It

In this thorough guide, we shed light on the fundamental concepts of sensitive and personal data, offering practical insights and actionable advice.

Customer stories Blog articles

Coofinep boosts their data security with Safetica

Financial cooperatives face constant challenges in protecting their customers' sensitive information and maintaining the integrity of their operations. We would like to share how Coofinep tackled its internal security challenges with Safetica.

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Safetica’s Data Protection Predictions for 2024

We've gathered some trends and predictions for the following year. From the rise of cloud-based solutions to the looming threats posed by generative AI, our experts have unveiled the trends and challenges awaiting us in 2024.

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Top Data Loss Prevention Software in 2024

Leading DLP software options available, equipping businesses with the necessary defenses to secure their data

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Cloud Data Security: Definitions, Risks, and 7 Best Practices for Cloud Data Protection

Storing data in the cloud offers unparalleled flexibility and scalability. But with great power comes great responsibility, and that's where a cloud data protection comes into play.

Regulatory Compliance Blog articles

Switzerland’s FADP: The Scope, 2023 Changes, and How to Comply

Switzerland’s Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP) has been recently updated. What does that mean for you and your business? How has the FADP changed, and how is it different from EU’s GDPR? Read more.

Data security Blog articles

Securing Slack: The Power of Data Loss Prevention

Slack has become the go-to cloud-based collaboration tool for companies of all sizes. Read how to secure Slack with Safetica.

Customer stories Blog articles

The Cooperative Bank in Mszana Dolna Mitigates Insider Risks with Safetica

The Cooperative Bank in Mszana Dolan ensures customer confidence by safeguarding sensitive data and minimizing risks with Safetica.

Customer stories Blog articles

From Compliance to Excellence: Jordan Ahli Bank Achieved More Than Just GDPR Compliance with Safetica

Jordan Ahli Bank offers a wide range of banking products and services. Therefore, data security and GDPR compliance are vital to maintaining their business activities. Read the case study.

Data security Blog articles

Data Loss Prevention in Government

Governments house a wealth of sensitive information, from classified data to citizens' records. Explore the complex world of government data breaches and learn how data loss prevention protects governmental institutions.

Data security Blog articles

Data Loss Prevention in Education

As schools increasingly turn to digital tools, keeping educational data safe becomes crucial. Read how educational institutions can implement data loss prevention (DLP) strategies to protect the privacy of their students, alumni, and staff.

Customer stories Blog articles

Safetica and ESET India Empower Global Business of Grazitti Interactive

Grazitti Interactive is a consulting company that helps businesses with digital transformation and marketing automation. The company has been assisting businesses worldwide, so data protection was crucial for their success.

Product updates Blog articles

Balancing Act: Safetica safeguards usage of over 200 GenAI tools

Integrating Generative AI ("GenAI") tools has become the norm across a wide range of industries. Safetica provides two distinct approaches for managing Generative AI (GenAI) tool usage in organizations.

Regulatory Compliance Blog articles

PIPEDA: The Scope, Purpose, and How to Comply

PIPEDA sets the ground rules for how businesses handle personal data in their commercial activities. Read more about the purpose, implications, and its 10 Fair Information Principles.

Press Releases Blog articles

Safetica partners with Kaira to provide DLP solutions in Singapore

We are pleased to announce that Safetica, in collaboration with our partner Kaira, will be serving customers in Singapore.

Data security Blog articles

Exploring Crypto Privacy: Safeguarding Your Cryptocurrency and Personal Information

Maintaining the trust of customers is one of the crucial activities for crypto providers. Protecting their sensitive data is key to sustainable business growth and customer satisfaction. Read more about the challenges in the crypto sphere and how to protect your data.

Data security Blog articles

Data Loss Prevention in the Automotive Industry

What are the unique challenges that the automotive industry faces? Learn how to mitigate them and keep your data safe.

Regulatory Compliance Blog articles

Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA): The Scope, Purpose, and How to Comply

The Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA) came into force on 1 January 2023 and grants consumers significant rights over their personal data. Read about the core principles, and learn how to comply.

Regulatory Compliance Blog articles

Utah Consumer Privacy Act (UCPA): The Scope, Purpose, and How to Comply

Utah Consumer Privacy Act (UCPA) will come into force on December 31, 2023, and will ensure that consumers' information isn't misused. Read more about the regulation and learn how to comply.

Life at Safetica Blog articles

Safetica Earns 28 Badges in the G2 Fall 2023 Reports

Safetica received 28 badges in the G2 Fall 2023 Reports and was named Leader in Data Security. Safetica conquered new categories, such as Cloud Security, and was recognized globally.

Regulatory Compliance Blog articles

GLBA: The Scope, Purpose, and How to Comply

The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) aims to enhance consumer privacy and data security for financial institutions. Its primary focus is on safeguarding non-public personal information (NPI) held by financial institutions.

Regulatory Compliance Blog articles

A Guide to the Essential Eight Maturity Model: How to Apply it to Your Business?

Essential Eight Maturity Model is an Australian framework that aims to safeguard sensitive data. It consists of eight strategies that reduce the risks of data loss.

Regulatory Compliance Blog articles

Get aligned with RBI (The Reserve Bank of India) with Safetica

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has created a dedicated security framework tailored for the Indian financial sector, ensuring the safety of Indian banks from potential cyber-attacks.

Data security Blog articles

Data Loss Prevention in Fintech

Let's delve into the challenges fintech faces in keeping data secure and what steps companies can take to safeguard customer information.

Data security Blog articles

Australian Privacy Principles: The Scope, Purpose, and How to Comply

The 13 Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) are the cornerstone of the country’s privacy protection framework under the Privacy Act 1988 and regulate the collection, usage, and disclosure of personal data, applying to both government and private sector organizations within Australia.

Regulatory Compliance Blog articles

Colorado Privacy Act: The Scope, Purpose, and How to Comply

The Colorado Privacy Act (CPA) came into effect on 1 July 2023. It aims to protect the privacy rights of Colorado residents and bolster data security measures.

Customer stories Blog articles

Šiaulai State University Enhances Data Security and GDPR Compliance with Safetica

The Lithuanian Šiaulai State University of Applied Sciences offers 20 study programs that nearly 100 teachers teach. When GDPR came into force, the organization had to ensure that their sensitive data was protected.

Regulatory Compliance Blog articles

Connecticut Data Privacy Act (CTDPA): The Scope, Purpose, and How to Comply

The Connecticut Data Privacy Act (CTDPA) became effective on 1 July 2023. It grants consumers control over their personal information that’s being collected and processed by businesses and organizations.

Life at Safetica Blog articles

Safetica Wins the Summer 2023 Leader Award from SourceForge

Safetica has been awarded a Summer 2023 Leader Award by SourceForge, the world’s largest software and services review and comparison website.

Data security Blog articles

Data Loss Prevention in Insurance Institutions

Read about what insurance companies should be doing to prevent data loss and data regulations and compliance in the insurance industry.

Regulatory Compliance Blog articles

DORA: The Scope, Purpose, and What to Expect

The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) is a new regulation that will affect organizations providing financial services in the EU.

Getting started Blog articles

What to expect from a demo call with Safetica

Are you considering Safetica’s data loss prevention (DLP) and insider risk management (IRM) solution and would like to know more about how our product meets your company’s needs? A demo call will help you figure everything out in a tailored, easy-to-understand way.

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Why Should the Manufacturing Industry Use DLP? Top 4 Reasons

In this article, we will give you valuable insights and actionable information that can help you make informed decisions about implementing DLP measures.

Press Releases Blog articles

Safetica received 18 badges in the G2 Summer Reports 2023

We are glad to announce that Safetica received 18 badges in the G2 Summer Reports 2023.

Data security Blog articles

BYOD Security Policy: Top Risks, Pros & Cons, and Best Practices

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) is a business policy that allows employees to use their personal devices, such as laptops, smartphones, and tablets, for work purposes. Read how to create BYOD security policies.

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The Dark Side of ChatGPT: How AI Poses a Threat to Data Security

In this article, we’ll explore some of the ways ChatGPT is used to help businesses, how it can be a threat to data security, and provide tips on how businesses can protect themselves.

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Why Should Healthcare Institutions Use DLP? Top 4 Reasons

In this article, we'll explore why healthcare institutions need DLP solutions to keep up with the latest technical developments and ensure that patient data is secure.

Data security Blog articles

Ransomware: What is it, and how DLP helps

The number of ransomware attacks increased by almost 13% in 2022. Let’s take a more in-depth look at what ransomware is and how organizations can protect themselves from data loss.

Press Releases Blog articles

Safetica Gets Closer to Customers with New U.S. Legal Entity

Safetica has officially established a legal entity in the United States. This new development allows our company to better serve our growing customer base in the U.S. and provide enhanced support for our partners and clients across North America.

Engineering Blog articles

Do you know std::string_view and how to use it?

Read an article written by one of our developers explaining the std::string_view part of the code.

Data security Blog articles

Data Loss Prevention in the Manufacturing Industry

As manufacturers embrace digitization, cybercriminals are increasingly creative when targeting this high-value sector. From data loss to intellectual property theft, the damage can be severe and can affect both business operations and reputation. What can your business do to increase data loss protection?

Data security Blog articles

Departing employees: How to set offboarding processes and policies

The risk posed by departing employees is often overlooked, yet it can be significant and detrimental to a company's data security. What should you consider in the employee offboarding process?

Data security Blog articles

Teal Organisations and the Importance of Data Loss Prevention

Teal organizations are unique in that they prioritize self-management, wholeness, and evolutionary purpose over traditional hierarchical structures and top-down decision-making. Read how to protect data in Teal organizations.

Product updates Blog articles

Shedding Light on Shadow IT: What it is, why it’s risky and how to intercept it

Shadow IT poses serious security threats such as data leaks and potential compliance violations, and organizations must take steps to manage its risks.

Regulatory Compliance Blog articles

POPI Act: The Scope, Purpose, and How to Comply

The POPI Act, is South Africa’s data protection law. The “Protection of Personal Information Act” is equivalent to the EU’s GDPR. It answers the questions of how, why, and who can collect, store and distribute sensitive data.

Data security Blog articles

Protect Your Business: Why Smaller Businesses Must Prevent Data Loss

SMBs tend to underestimate cyber security, however, data loss can have a devastating impact on these businesses. Implementing effective data protection strategies is easier and more cost-effective than ever before.

Engineering Blog articles

Azure Functions: SOLID-compliant service factory

How to process multiple implementations of one service interface and inject one of them based on the data type? Our colleague wrote an article to share his know-how. Read more.

Regulatory Compliance Blog articles

NIS2: The Scope, Purpose, and What Changes to Expect

The NIS2 is the revised version of the NIS that was adopted by the EU on 28th November 2022. There’s now a 2-year period during which all member states must implement the NIS2 directive’s measures into their national legislation.

Customer stories Blog articles

Krakowski Bank Spółdzielczy Mitigates Insider Risk through Employee Awareness and Education

Krakowski Bank Spółdzielczy further strengthened the security of the data collected by the bank by implementing a DLP solution and empowering their employees.

Press Releases Blog articles

Safetica earns new badges and was named a top software

Safetica received new badges from peer review sites, such as Capterra, Sourceforge, Slashdot, and GetApp, and appeared as an Emerging Favorite quadrant of the top endpoint protection solutions.

Regulatory Compliance Blog articles

TISAX: The Scope, Purpose, and How to Comply

TISAX is a globally recognized information and cyber-security standard developed to protect data within the automotive industry. Learn more.

Regulatory Compliance Blog articles

ISO/IEC 27001: The Scope, Purpose, and How to Comply

Following the ISO/IEC 27001 international standard means setting up your organization with an effective information security management system (ISMS). Read more.

Data security Blog articles

Top 4 reasons why financial institutions should use Safetica

One of the most vulnerable industries in the data protection realm is financial services. In the financial industry, the estimated average cost of a data breach was $5.97 million – the second highest only after the healthcare industry. That's not a small amount!

Data security Blog articles

How to educate your employees about data security

Your employees need to live and breathe in a security-first mindset while they are working because that’s the only way to protect your organization’s, your partners’, and suppliers’ sensitive data. Let’s take a look at how to educate them effectively.

Data security Blog articles

Data Loss in Healthcare

There are a few best practices that companies from the healthcare sector can use to boost their data security (and patient trust) straight away, though – you’ll learn about those in this article.

Data security Blog articles

Phishing in the Workplace: Latest Trends and Best Practices for Businesses

This article explains how phishing works in general and in a business setting and outlines practical strategies to protect your organization.

Engineering Blog articles

Microsoft Identity Platform: Introduction

Do you need a reliable identity management service for your application? Don't reinvent the wheel by coding your own. Try Microsoft Identity Platform. This article will introduce you to the service and give you information on how to start adopting it.

Regulatory Compliance Blog articles

Quebec's Law 25 (formerly Bill 64): All You Need to Know

The application of the multiple new provisions of the Quebec's Law 25 is spread over three years, on September 22 of each year until 2024. Learn more.

Data security Blog articles

10+1 Tips to Secure Your Company’s Data on Business Trips

Do not forget about data security when you go on a business trip. Read our 10+1 tips and make sure your data and devices are safe.

Press Releases Blog articles

Safetica Supports New ISO 27001/27002 “Data Leakage Prevention” Requirement

ISO 27002 outlines the 11 new requirements that all companies with ISO 27001 certification must meet if they want to maintain their certificates.

Regulatory Compliance Blog articles

CCPA compliance: What is CCPA and when should you care

Read more about Californian Consumer Protection (CCPA), which was amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), and learn how to be compliant.

Regulatory Compliance Blog articles

CMMC: The Scope, Purpose, and How to Comply

Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification is a security assessment and verification standard for defense contractors providing services and products to the Department of Defense (DoD).

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Data Loss in Financial Industry: All You Need to Know

If you work in a financial institution, taking good care of the data inside your system is especially important. Banks and financial services have terabytes of highly sensitive information on hand. Read how to keep your data safe.

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What is the Zero Trust Approach?

“Never trust, always verify” is the catchphrase of Zero Trust. The Zero Trust Approach is an evolving data loss protection model that focuses on users, assets, and endpoints.

Regulatory Compliance Blog articles

GDPR vs CCPA: Key Benefits and Differences

While CCPA and GDPR do cover similar topics and have the same goal in mind, there are a few things they do differently though. Read the article to find out.

Regulatory Compliance Blog articles

PCI DSS Regulation: The Scope, Purpose, and How to Comply

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard is a set of rules and processes that are designed to protect cardholders’ sensitive data from data breaches and fraud. Read more about this regulation.

Data security Blog articles

5 Tips for IT Professionals: How to Help your Employees Work Safely

With the new approaches such as BYOD, hybrid workspace, and remote work, it is more likely to experience a data breach. Learn how you can help your employees to protect your data.

Data security Blog articles

The Great Resignation as a Threat to Data Security

The Great Resignation is trend in which large numbers of employees have voluntarily been resigning from their jobs. Read how to prepare for the Great Resignation and not lose any data.

Regulatory Compliance Blog articles

What is HIPAA? The Scope, Purpose and How to Comply

HIPAA regulations require that records are better secured and protected against leakage. Read more about this US regulation and find out how to comply.

Data security Blog articles

Data protection: All you need to know about data and why to protect it

Do you know where all your company’s data is and how it flows through your operations and processes? Read more about data protection – why it is important and how to do it best.

Regulatory Compliance Blog articles

What is GDPR? The scope, purpose, fines and how to comply

GDPR is a European Union protection regulation that applies to all organizations that process the personal data of EU residents. Read more about the regulation.

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The Top 6 Biggest Data Leaks

Data breaches are a common phenomenon in the world of data and can pose serious threat to organizations. When a data breach occurs, a company’s reputation is at risk, and fines from legal authorities may be imposed. Read about the top 6 biggest data leaks that happened during recent years.

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Spotting Insider Threats: 10 Best Practices to Prevent Data Leaks in Your Organization

An insider threat/risk is a data breach security risk caused by people that have legitimate access to an organization’s data. See the examples, and learn how to protect your company's data.

Life at Safetica Blog articles

Together we can help to change their stories

The end of the year is coming and so is our annual customer satisfaction survey. We have decided that the time is right to come together to help the little ones.

Life at Safetica Blog articles

Customer Success Manager and Health Check services

Do you want to get the maximum out of Safetica products and reach your goals as fast as possible? Customer Success Manager will help you – including regular health checks.

Partners Blog articles

Avant Services: How to become a Safetica Platinum Partner in less than a year

Avant Services managed to achieve the Platinum Partner level in cooperation with Safetica within a year.

Data security Blog articles

"Sometimes it is as much psychology as IT"

Zbyněk Sopuch, CTO of Safetica, explains how the DLP software is developed and what are the most important issues DLP needs to solve.

Partners Blog articles

Safetica and Seclore to Create Last-Mile Protection for Sensitive Information

The new partnership joins Data Loss Prevention and Rights Management to address the need for secure external collaboration compliance.

Partners Blog articles

Safetica Technologies Enters the Brazilian Market

Safetica closed EsyWorld as its distributor because of its established presence in Brazil with superior professionalism and quality.

Product updates Blog articles

We have become a Microsoft Gold Partner

In the fall of 2018 Safetica joined the Microsoft Partner Network and became a Silver Partner, less than a year later and we’ve already reached the next level - Microsoft Gold Partner.

Product updates Blog articles

Safetica has joined Fortinet´s Technology Alliance Partner Program

Integration of Safetica’s Data Loss Prevention solution with Fortinet products gives businesses a powerful tool to secure data, no matter where it resides or flows.

Data security Blog articles

The Security Risks of External Devices in Business

USB flash drives, external drives, cameras or mobile phones make it easy and comfortable to transfer important data. On the other hand, they also bring a couple of security problems that we shouldn’t overlook.

Data security Blog articles

How we messed with boot-time drivers

One of our customers recently reported a problem with running our software in tandem with VMware vShield. Although the solution turned out to be quite simple, the investigation process revealed some interesting facts related to driver behavior at boot time.

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