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2026 AI Data Crisis: Protect Your Sensitive Information Now

by Patrick Spencer January 9, 2026 | Cybersecurity Risk Management

The numbers are staggering. In just one year, the number of employees using generative AI applications has tripled. The volume of data they’re sending to these tools has increased sixfold....

12 Leading Enterprise Data Protection Tools for 2026

by Robert Dougherty December 23, 2025 | Cybersecurity Risk Management

Enterprises in 2026 face a convergence of ransomware, insider risk, and expanding regulatory mandates. The most effective enterprise data protection tools now span discovery, DLP, encryption, backup, and data governance—working...

AI Swarm Attacks: What Security Teams Need to Know in 2026

by Tim Freestone December 23, 2025 | Cybersecurity Risk Management

In November 2025, Anthropic detected a coordinated cyberattack targeting 30 global organizations. The attackers weren't a team of hackers working keyboards in a basement. They were autonomous software agents—working together,...

DSPM vs. DLP vs. IRM: Do You Need Just One or All Three for Complete Data Protection?

by Bob Ertl December 18, 2025December 22, 2025 | Cybersecurity Risk Management

Modern enterprises juggle sensitive data sprawled across endpoints, SaaS apps, cloud services, and legacy systems. This fragmentation—paired with rising regulatory pressure—creates breach and compliance risk that a single tool rarely...

2026 DSPM Integration Playbook: Aligning SIEM and DLP for Zero‑Risk

by Marc Eikelder December 18, 2025 | Cybersecurity Risk Management

Security programs are most effective when SIEM, DLP, and DSPM operate as one system. SIEM correlates activity across users, devices, and apps; DLP enforces controls where data moves; DSPM brings...

5 Critical Integrations Every DSPM Solution Needs

by Bob Ertl December 17, 2025 | Cybersecurity Risk Management

DSPM discovers where sensitive data lives, classifies it, and continuously evaluates risk and exposure across clouds, apps, and repositories. To translate discovery into measurable risk reduction, DSPM must integrate with...

DSPM Buyers Guide: Critical Requirements for Effective Data Protection

by Robert Dougherty December 17, 2025 | Cybersecurity Risk Management

Modern enterprises operate across multi-cloud, SaaS, and on-premises environments—where sensitive files, messages, and logs proliferate quickly. This DSPM buyers guide explains which solutions provide visibility into unstructured data risks, which...

December 2025 AI Executive Order: Impact on Data Security and Compliance

by Tim Freestone December 17, 2025December 23, 2025 | Cybersecurity Risk Management

On December 11, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order that was supposed to simplify things. Instead, it created the most complicated compliance environment businesses have faced in years. Here’s...

Which DSPM Platforms Integrate with SIEM and DLP? A Guide to Unified Data Protection

by Robert Dougherty December 16, 2025December 23, 2025 | Cybersecurity Risk Management

Your security tools shouldn’t operate as isolated islands. Yet for most organizations, that’s exactly what happens—DSPM discovers sensitive data in one console, SIEM correlates security events in another, and DLP...

Gartner Just Said What We’ve Been Thinking About AI Governance

by Tim Freestone December 15, 2025December 23, 2025 | Cybersecurity Risk Management

I’ve been reading Gartner reports for longer than I’d like to admit. Most of them confirm what practitioners already suspect. Some challenge assumptions. And occasionally, one lands that makes you...

How to Manage Data Security Posture Across Cloud Deployments

by Tim Freestone December 15, 2025December 23, 2025 | Cybersecurity Risk Management

As organizations expand across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and SaaS, the question isn’t if risk will arise—it’s how quickly you’ll see it and how efficiently you can reduce it. Data...

7 Ways Kiteworks Boosts Your DSPM Investment to Stop Shadow AI Data Sharing

by Tim Freestone December 11, 2025December 23, 2025 | Cybersecurity Risk Management

Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) gives security teams the data-centric visibility and policy framework they need to address shadow AI—the unsanctioned use of AI tools that move sensitive data outside...

Why Your DSPM MIP Labels Fail Enforcement—and How to Fix Them

by Uri Kedem December 11, 2025December 23, 2025 | Cybersecurity Risk Management

Most security teams assume that once Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) labels are applied, downstream controls just work. In reality, translating labels into enforcement across hybrid clouds and SaaS requires continuous...

7 Proven Steps to Uncover Shadow Data with DSPM Tools

by Bob Ertl December 10, 2025December 23, 2025 | Cybersecurity Risk Management

Shadow data—sensitive information saved outside sanctioned systems such as personal cloud drives, ad hoc backups, or email attachments—evades standard controls and is a leading cause of silent data exposure. The...

2026 Data Security Reports: Navigating Threats and Compliance

by Patrick Spencer December 10, 2025December 23, 2025 | Cybersecurity Risk Management

The cybersecurity industry’s annual prediction season is in high gear. The hard work of interpreting what it means for your data is just beginning. Every year, dozens of respected organizations—security...

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