Microsoft Excel is the industry standard for organizing and laying out data sets. Not only do Excel files often hold some of your most important and sensitive information, but that information is presented neatly in spreadsheet form, making it an easily exploitable asset for anyone with bad intentions. This means you must control who gets…
When it comes to document control, it’s crucial to protect the master file. Not only does a company’s master file leave an audit trail should you need it, but you can also revert to the original document if critical issues with subsequent versions arise. What can happen to master files? As it turns out,…
Wherever you work, it is very likely that your company is at least somewhat reliant on Google Drive to do business. This makes perfect sense when you consider the general ubiquity of Google products and user familiarity. (Can you remember the last time you used another search engine?) But the easy choice is not always…
The ability to safely and securely integrate video conferencing into your Virtual Data Room (VDR) is paramount. Because using a VDR obviously indicates that your organization has highly sensitive data to protect (such as in an M&A), the video conferencing solution you choose to use alongside it must have the same robust security requirements. …
Ensuring that sensitive information in your company’s documents is secure and that it’s properly redacted is paramount. Owning the ability to share company documents while masking the data that must be kept confidential is an important asset for any company today, especially in light of recent data breaches and cyberattacks. Protecting sensitive data from those…
Whew! You just finished writing an important document in Microsoft Word — and you want to keep it private and secure. What can you do? Let’s have a look at four ways you can add security to your Word documents. You can choose one of these, or a combination of several, to add the most…
Your company’s intellectual property (commonly referred to as “IP”), is an undeniably important asset. Though usually intangible, IP is commonly far more valuable than most of the other physical assets of your company. Therefore, knowing how to protect intellectual property is just as important (or more so) than locking your office and other facilities at…
With so many people working remotely and deals that span across the globe more common than ever, organizations must rely on document security systems to keep mission-critical and classified information safe in the cloud. Effective document security systems mean that employees can access files from anywhere in the world and the IT staff and executive…
What Level of Data Encryption Does Your Business Need? The reason why your business must encrypt its data isn’t a terribly hard concept to understand – the need to protect sensitive information speaks for itself. Cyberattacks and data breaches, like the ones we’ve all seen in the news, cancost a company millions of dollars, deteriorate…
Security Vs Compliance When people think about security and compliance they often think that they’re the same thing: if you’re being compliant aren’t you also being secure (and vice versa)? The truth is that compliance doesn’t always equal security, and security doesn’t always equal compliance. Information technology has reached highs previously thought to be impossible—the…