How To Lock a PDF: What You Need To Know About Password Security
Locking a PDF from editing, printing, and more takes just a few seconds. Learn how to lock a PDF on both Microsoft and Mac devices here.
How to Pick the Right FINRA-Approved Cloud Storage Solution
Finding a FINRA- approved cloud storage solution is relatively easy, but you won’t find it on free cloud platforms. Here’s what to know.
Is OneDrive Secure Enough to Handle Sensitive Enterprise Data?
Choosing the right solution for your company’s confidential transaction (M&A, IPO, etc.) is one of the factors that either help or hinder the process, both financially and timewise. Knowing what options are available and the different types of cloud storage will help streamline the process and make an often difficult business transaction flow a little…
Understanding Due Care vs. Due Diligence
In the business and financial sectors, particularly in the milieu of M&As and related types of transactions, two terms that are commonly used are “due care” and “due diligence.” Although similar sounding, these two phrases are not interchangeable, and knowing the difference between them is paramount. In the course of corporate work in the…
Crucial Document Security Best Practices
Cybersecurity breaches have become all too common. Incidents of malware, ransomware, trojans and phishing have all spiked at unprecedented rates, with attacks becoming more sophisticated, more coordinated and, when they strike, more devastating to companies than ever before. The security of your most important digital documents should be the last bastion in any organization’s…
Private vs. Public Cloud Storage: What to Know to Keep Your Company’s Data Safe
With cloud storage becoming the standard in file storage and the uptick of cyberattacks in the last year or so, a debate is now emerging between using a public cloud, a private cloud or even a hybrid cloud, which combines both. Most of this is, of course, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with record numbers…
Is Encryption Enough? How to Send a Secure Email
Considering the constant exposure we have to email-based security breaches, like spoofing, phishing, malware and ransomware attacks, you might think that email encryption has become a standard implementation for most companies and email platforms — well, think again. Most platforms today do support encryption, but it’s up to you — or your system admin —…
How to Add Watermarks to Protect Sensitive and Proprietary Documents
Watermarks are an important security measure to mark a document without obscuring its contents. The use of watermarks dates back to the 13th century, when paper was pressed with a metal stamp while it was still wet, leaving a permanent mark on the paper. Regardless of what was printed on the document, holding the paper…
Shared a Document With a Third Party? Here’s how to Track it.
Sharing important documents is an act of trust that can have catastrophic consequences for you and your business if it’s not done properly. An unsecured document, or a document shared with the wrong person, can expose you to risks that may not become evident for years after the original transaction has been completed. But…
Why Information Rights Management is More Mission-Critical than Ever Before
Information rights management (IRM) is a discipline that involves managing, controlling and securing content from unauthorized access or compromise. IRM is a subset of digital rights management (DRM), which protects intellectual property from patent infringement and piracy. IRM focuses on protecting sensitive data and documents, especially data and documents that are exchanged with parties…