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Find Out if You're Exposed on the Dark Web

Answer 5 quick questions to predict what a dark web scan will find about your company. Then run the free scan to see your real exposure.

Lance Turner

Data Breaches

    • Compliance and Regulations
    • Data Breaches
    • Third-Party Risk Management
    • Attack Surface Management

    What is Protected Health Information (PHI)?

    Protected health information (PHI) is any information about health status, provision of health care or payment for health care that is created or collected

    Abi Tyas Tunggal
    • Compliance and Regulations
    • Cybersecurity
    • Data Breaches

    What is Sensitive Data?

    Sensitive data is information that must be protected against unauthorized access.

    Abi Tyas Tunggal
    • Data Breaches
    • Compliance and Regulations

    What is the Cost of a Data Breach in 2023?

    Learn about the global costs of a data breach and how to implement the right defenses to protect your business.

    Abi Tyas Tunggal
    • Cybersecurity
    • Attack Surface Management
    • Third-Party Risk Management
    • Data Breaches

    What is Data Security?

    Data security is the process of protecting sensitive data from unauthorized access and corruption throughout its lifecycle.

    Abi Tyas Tunggal
    • Attack Surface Management
    • Cybersecurity
    • Data Breaches

    Don’t Use Production Data In Your Test Environment: The Impact Of Leaked Test Credentials

    Read about why your third-party vendors and test environments should not contain production data, and how to protect your customers by taking a few steps.

    Kaushik Sen
    • Cybersecurity
    • Attack Surface Management
    • Third-Party Risk Management
    • Data Breaches

    What is Defense in Depth?

    Defense in depth is a cyber security strategy that uses a series of layered, redundant defensive measures to protect sensitive data, PII and other assets.

    Abi Tyas Tunggal
    • Cybersecurity
    • Attack Surface Management
    • Data Breaches

    Incident Response Plans: Roles, Incident Types, and Standards

    An incident response plan is a set of written instructions that outline your organization's response to data breaches, data leaks, and cyber attacks.

    Abi Tyas Tunggal
    • Cybersecurity
    • Data Breaches

    What is Data Loss Prevention (DLP)?

    This is a complete overview of data loss prevention (DLP). Learn about DLP best practices in this in-depth post.

    Abi Tyas Tunggal
    • Attack Surface Management
    • Data Breaches
    • Cybersecurity

    How to Fix The Top 10 Critical CVEs That Can Lead To A Data Breaches

    Learn more about how to fix these top 10 CVEs that commonly lead to data breaches.

    Abi Tyas Tunggal
    • Data Breaches
    • Third-Party Risk Management
    • Cybersecurity

    Spotify Resets User Passwords to Protect Against Third Party Data Breaches

    The LinkedIn data breach compromised hundreds of thousands of passwords, leaving accounts wide open across numerous sites. Spotify took action.

    UpGuard Team
    • Cybersecurity
    • Data Breaches
    • Attack Surface Management

    What Are Cloud Leaks?

    Cloud leaks are a unique risk facing businesses that store data in the cloud or use vendors who do. And they're caused by misconfigurations, not hackers.

    Abi Tyas Tunggal
    • Attack Surface Management
    • Cybersecurity
    • Data Breaches

    Check your Amazon S3 permissions or Someone Else will.

    Companies regularly host sensitive data on Amazon's S3. Sometimes they forget to close it off to the internet. Here's a guide to make sure you don't.

    Abi Tyas Tunggal
    • Data Breaches

    Data Leaks and the Deep Web: Swimming in the Deep End

    The deep web makes up 95-99% of the entire internet. The dark web makes up less than 1%. UpGuard explores how deep web assets can lead to data exposure.

    Kaushik Sen

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