Patrick Spencer

DSPM vs Traditional Data Security: Closing Critical Data Protection Gaps

by Patrick Spencer September 9, 2025September 24, 2025 | Cybersecurity Risk Management

As organizations grapple with exponential data growth and increasingly complex multi-cloud environments, traditional data security approaches are showing their limitations. With the total amount of data set to reach 181...

46% of Companies Don't Know Their Breach Frequency | 2025 Report

Why 46% of Companies Don’t Know Their Breach Frequency [Kiteworks 2025 Annual Survey Report]

by Patrick Spencer September 3, 2025September 3, 2025 | Cybersecurity Risk Management

New research reveals cascading visibility failures create a perfect storm of vulnerability across enterprises globally. When we launched this research series four years ago, we expected to document steady progress...

Email Security in 2025: Critical Findings Show Your Industry and Location Determine Your Risk

by Patrick Spencer September 3, 2025October 22, 2025 | Cybersecurity Risk Management

Executive Summary Email remains the primary attack vector for cybercriminals, yet most organizations approach email security with outdated assumptions. Kiteworks’ Data Security and Compliance Risk: 2025 Annual Survey Report analyzed...

Beyond the Mystery: How Better Data Controls Could Address ITRC’s 69% Unknown Breach Problem

by Patrick Spencer August 31, 2025 | Cybersecurity Risk Management

The most disturbing finding in the Identity Theft Resource Center’s (ITRC) 2025 reports isn’t the 1,732 data breaches affecting 165,745,452 individuals in just six months. It’s that 69% of these...

How Shadow AI Costs Companies $670K Extra: IBM’s 2025 Breach Report

by Patrick Spencer August 30, 2025 | Cybersecurity Risk Management

The numbers tell a stark story. While IBM’s latest Cost of a Data Breach Report reveals that global breach costs have dropped to $4.44 million—the first decline in five years—U.S....

How 77% of Organizations Are Failing at AI Data Security

by Patrick Spencer August 29, 2025 | Cybersecurity Risk Management

While organizations race to adopt AI at breakneck speed, a staggering 77% lack the foundational security practices needed to protect their most valuable asset: data. This alarming statistic from Accenture’s...

Trust Is the New Perimeter: Why Data Security, Compliance, and Privacy Fail Without Reliable Security Data

by Patrick Spencer August 26, 2025 | Cybersecurity Risk Management

Picture this: 90% of IT and security leaders confidently claim they’re ready to handle the next major vulnerability or exposure. Yet when you dig deeper, only 25% actually trust the...

AI Can Now Hack Your Network: What the Latest Research Reveals

by Patrick Spencer August 26, 2025 | Cybersecurity Risk Management

The Dawn of AI-Driven Cyber Warfare Recent research from Carnegie Mellon University and Anthropic demonstrates that Large Language Models (LLMs) can autonomously execute sophisticated multistage network attacks, successfully compromising enterprise...

The 2025 AI Security Gap: Why 83% of Organizations Are Flying Blind

by Patrick Spencer August 20, 2025 | Cybersecurity Risk Management

Picture this: A Fortune 500 financial services company discovers that for the past six months, their customer service team has been copying and pasting sensitive client data—including social security numbers,...

AI Governance Gap: Why 91% of Small Companies Are Playing Russian Roulette with Data Security in 2025

by Patrick Spencer August 19, 2025August 19, 2025 | Cybersecurity Risk Management

Picture this: You’re driving a Ferrari at 200mph down a highway… blindfolded. That’s essentially what 91% of small companies are doing with their AI systems right now. No monitoring, no...

Your Employees Are Already Using AI—With Your Company’s Confidential Data

by Patrick Spencer August 12, 2025August 21, 2025 | Cybersecurity Risk Management

While executives debate AI strategy in boardrooms, 93% of their employees have already made the decision for them—and they’re sharing confidential data with unapproved AI tools. This isn’t a future...

5 Must-Have Virtual Data Room Features for Law Firms

by Patrick Spencer July 10, 2025August 12, 2025 | Secure File Sharing

Law firms handle unprecedented volumes of sensitive client data, privileged communications, and confidential case documents that require maximum security protection. With cyber threats targeting legal practices at record rates and...

Virtual Data Room Security: Complete Guide to Protecting Sensitive Business Data in 2025

by Patrick Spencer July 9, 2025August 12, 2025 | Secure File Sharing

Sensitive data has likely become your organization’s most valuable asset—and biggest vulnerability. With cyber threats evolving rapidly and regulatory compliance requirements tightening globally, protecting confidential information through robust Virtual Data...

Top 3 FERPA Violations and How to Avoid Them

by Patrick Spencer June 19, 2025June 20, 2025 | Regulatory Compliance

IT, risk, and compliance professionals in higher education must have a comprehensive understanding of the cyber threats that jeopardize personally identifiable and protected health information (PII/PHI). If unaddressed, these threats...

Cyentia IRIS 2025 Pre-Release Insights: Actionable Data Security and Compliance Takeaways for Enterprise Leaders

by Patrick Spencer May 30, 2025September 15, 2025 | Cybersecurity Risk Management

Congratulations to Professor Wade Baker and the exceptional teams at Cyentia and Feedly for an eye-opening pre-release webinar on May 28 that gave us an exclusive preview of the upcoming...

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