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Starting January 1, 2020, the state of California enforces the most far-reaching data-privacy legislation in the history of the United States.

Mimecast is a cloud-based, anti-spam, and archive filtering service for securing email accounts and communications for businesses.

This post is an informational announcement detailing the Citrix NetScaler Vulnerability and what Datashield is doing to help our customers detect and mitigate the issue. Since the announcement of the vulnerability in Citrix devices (CVE-2019-19781) Datashield has performed extensive analysis and research on exploit attempts, attack patterns, and the latest intelligence. Citrix released security bulletin CTX267027 containing information on a vulnerability in various Citrix Products. This allows an unauthenticated attack that allows remote code execution.

LogRhythm XM is a powerful yet compact version of LogRhythm Enterprise that is the perfect solution for many organizations in the mid-market. Learn more about the available all-in-one SIEM options and how Datashield helps companies successfully install and managed LogRhythm XM. The early days of tackling cyber threats involved a team of crack detectives diving through thousands of alerts produced by traditional firewall tools and log analyzers to pinpoint threats to networks. This method was similar to finding the proverbial needle in a haystack and was labor intensive.

Jeff Marshall, Chief Information Security Office (CISO) at Datashield announces the new Product Management Team.

Learn some of the basic considerations when establishing a strong password policy for your organization. Find out some of the best practices and industry standards when it comes to user access and a password policy framework. Most places of business require that their employees access their facilities by using a key or key card. In many ways, passwords are the keys by which employees access their workplace network. With physical office keys or card readers, proper policies and procedures must be implemented to ensure that unauthorized access does not occur. The same holds true with successful password policies for organizations.

Learn the basics you need to know with HIPAA including the Privacy, Security and Breach Notification Rules. HIPAA Basics: What You Need to Know The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is a well-known piece of US legislation that is designed to provide organizations in health care with data privacy and security provisions for medical information. The original regulations were adopted in 1996 but since then they were amended with new legislation via the Privacy Rule of 2000, the Security Rule of 2003, the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act introduced in 2009 (ARRA).