Posts by Bob Ertl

Bob Ertl, Sr. Director of Product Marketing, Kiteworks

Bob Ertl is senior director of product marketing at Kiteworks. He brings over 20 years of enterprise software product marketing and product management experience, covering compliance and security, unstructured and structured content, and analytics. Prior to joining Kiteworks in 2014, he brought innovative business intelligence and data warehousing products to market at Oracle, Hyperion, Brio, and several start-ups, and led implementation projects across a variety of industries.

Cleo Harmony Data Breach: Zero-Day Vulnerabilities Expose Critical Supply Chain Data

by Bob Ertl December 16, 2024September 23, 2025 | Cybersecurity Risk Management

In a significant escalation of cyber threats targeting supply chain operations, Huntress security researchers have uncovered a sophisticated advanced persistent threat (APT) attack that exploited vulnerabilities in Cleo Harmony’s managed...

Finastra Data Breach Takeaways: Why Hardened Security Is Critical

by Bob Ertl December 3, 2024September 23, 2025 | Secure File Transfer

A major cybersecurity incident has rocked the financial technology sector as Finastra, a leading financial software provider serving over 8,000 institutions worldwide, confirmed a significant data breach. The November 7,...

How to Improve SFTP Adoption: Top Benefits and Strategies

by Bob Ertl November 10, 2024September 23, 2025 | Secure File Transfer

Secure data transfer has become a top priority for businesses across various industries. One of the most reliable and widely-used protocols for secure file transfer is SFTP, or Secure File...

External File Sharing Governance for Transforming Care

by Bob Ertl October 31, 2024September 24, 2025 | HIPAA Compliance

External file sharing governance is challenge for many healthcare organizations (HCOs), but it’s a challenge they need to address to deliver the best possible care while ensuring compliance with data...

Possessionless Editing: A Revolutionary Innovation in Digital Rights Management (DRM)

by Bob Ertl October 29, 2024September 23, 2025 | Digital Rights Management

Organizations across sectors face the challenge of collaborating efficiently while maintaining the highest standards of data security. Whether you’re in finance, healthcare, or government sectors, the risk of sensitive information...

Employee Vaccination Mandates Accentuate the Need for HIPAA-compliant File Transfer for HR Professionals

by Bob Ertl October 28, 2024September 23, 2025 | HIPAA Compliance

If you are like me, you were hoping at this time last year that things would be essentially back to normal in time for our summer vacations in 2021—if not...

DLP Integration and Its Role in Secure File Sharing

by Bob Ertl October 28, 2024September 15, 2025 | Secure File Sharing

What Is Data Loss Prevention (DLP)? Data loss prevention (DLP) is a type of security measure that helps organizations protect valuable data from loss, theft, or misuse. DLP uses specific...

What Is Data Classification? [4 Common Types]

by Bob Ertl October 28, 2024September 22, 2025 | Secure File Transfer

What is data classification? Data classification is organizing data into different categories to help make this data easier to manage, protect, and use. What Is Data Classification? Data classification renders...

DRM 101: A Beginner’s Guide to Protecting Your Business With Digital Rights Management

by Bob Ertl October 28, 2024September 23, 2025 | Digital Rights Management

With rising concerns over unauthorized access to sensitive content like contracts, customer data, patient records, trade secrets, and more, it’s evident a digital rights management (DRM) strategy is imperative for...

4 Biggest Digital Rights Management Challenges

by Bob Ertl October 27, 2024September 23, 2025 | Digital Rights Management

Digital rights management (DRM) plays a crucial role in protecting valuable information and data within organizations. It ensures that sensitive content is accessed and shared securely, providing a shield against...

Drive Digital Transformation with Enterprise Content Integration

by Bob Ertl October 26, 2024September 24, 2025 | Secure File Sharing

Competition has intensified and forced businesses to innovate more quickly, generating new ways of serving customers, sometimes even with new business models or new business units or spun-off organizations. To...

SWIFT Security Vulnerabilities: Bank Data Breaches Are the Future of Bank Robberies

by Bob Ertl October 24, 2024September 22, 2025 | Secure File Sharing

In this day and age, if you want to rob a bank, you can dispense with the overcoat, the wig, the cheap sunglasses, and the note slid across the counter...

Kiteworks Embraces CISA’s Secure-by-Design With Robust MFA Solutions

by Bob Ertl October 18, 2024September 23, 2025 | Cybersecurity Risk Management

The rise of sophisticated phishing attacks and credential theft has made multi-factor authentication (MFA) more important than ever. As cybercriminals continue to evolve their tactics, organizations must adopt robust security...

HIPAA Data Retention & Backup [Requirements & Compliance]

by Bob Ertl October 14, 2024September 15, 2025 | HIPAA Compliance

How long should you retain medical records? It can vary and, while there are no set HIPAA requirements for HIPAA data retention, there are policies you must follow. For example,...

How to Achieve PCI Compliance With Secure Web Forms

by Bob Ertl September 13, 2024September 18, 2025 | PCI Compliance

Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance is essential for all businesses that accept, process, or store payment card information. PCI DSS provides a robust framework designed to...

Security and Compliance Blog

Learn security strategies, compare vendors, and implement best practices to prevent breaches and compliance violations from risky third party communications.