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The Endpoint Protector 5.2.0.9 Series: What’s New in Device Control?

November 20, 2020November 8, 2023 Device Control

We’ve recently released a major product update, and we thought it’d come in handy to let you know more about the improvements added to Endpoint Protector 5.2.0.9. In this article, we’ll cover the upgrades of the Device Control…

Australian Government Kicks off Privacy Act Review

November 18, 2020 Compliance Data Loss Prevention

On 12 December 2019, the Australian Government announced that it would conduct a review of the Privacy Act 1988 as part of its response to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s (ACCC) Digital Platforms…

Zero-Day Support and Kextless Agent for macOS Big Sur by Endpoint Protector DLP

November 13, 2020 Data Loss Prevention Macs in the enterprise

First introduced in June 2020 at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, macOS Big Sur (version 11.0) was officially released yesterday. The seventeenth major release of macOS, brings not only a refined new design but…

Endpoint Protector Supports Apple Silicon

November 11, 2020November 11, 2020 Data Loss Prevention Macs in the enterprise

During the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2020, Apple announced its intention to transition Macs from Intel chips to its own Apple silicon processors starting in late 2020. Similar to the A-series chips used in…

We’ve just released a major product update. Check out Endpoint Protector 5.2.0.9

November 9, 2020December 15, 2020 Data Loss Prevention

An important upgrade of Endpoint Protector, our enterprise-grade Data Loss Prevention (DLP) solution for Windows, macOS, and Linux computers, is officially out. The latest version of our multi-OS solution, Endpoint…

DPO vs. CPO: Compliance Roles at Glance

October 30, 2020December 10, 2020 Compliance

While compliance and data protection have been around for some time, especially in fields such as finance and health, they have always been bundled together into legal and information security roles. The rise of increasingly…

Macs in the Enterprise: How to Secure Data at Rest

October 26, 2020May 12, 2022 Data Loss Prevention Macs in the enterprise

Data at rest refers to all data stored on devices that are not transferred from network to network or device to device. It includes data saved locally on computer hard drives, archived in databases, file systems, and storage…

The Cost of a Data Breach in 2020

October 16, 2020April 5, 2021 Data Loss Prevention

The global average cost of a data breach decreased slightly in 2020, reaching $3.86 million/breach, down 1.5% from 2019, according to the Cost of a Data Breach report 2020 released by IBM and the Ponemon Institute. Companies…

How Does Encryption Help to Protect Business Data

October 12, 2020September 2, 2022 Data Loss Prevention Encryption

Protecting sensitive data has become a requirement for most organizations around the world as data breaches have become increasingly common, and legislation spearheaded by the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation…

Endpoint Protector at the First-Ever Virtual JNUC 2020

October 8, 2020December 10, 2020 Events

The biggest conference for Apple administrators, the Jamf Nation User Conference (JNUC) 2020 took place last week, between September 29 – October 1, 2020. Relaunched as a complimentary virtual event over the original…

Brazil’s LGPD is now in effect

October 2, 2020August 26, 2021 Compliance

In a surprising turn of events, Brazil’s Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados (LGPD), Latin America’s first major data protection law, went into effect this month after hopes that the COVID-19 pandemic would push the introduction…

What is Deep Packet Inspection? How it Works and Why It Is Important

September 25, 2020March 25, 2022 Data Loss Prevention

Every piece of digital information, whether it’s emails, accessed websites, or messages sent via apps, is transmitted over the internet in small bundles of data known as packets. These packets contain not only the information…

How Endpoint Protector Keeps Data Secure on DaaS Platforms

September 18, 2020January 6, 2021 Data Loss Prevention Work From Home

The COVID-19 pandemic took many organizations by surprise. Faced with the need to quickly scale-up their remote work capabilities in a cost-effective way without compromising security and performance, many companies…

What are the Privacy Challenges of Cloud Computing?

September 14, 2020March 24, 2022 Data Loss Prevention

Cloud services have become an integral part of business operations. In an increasingly interconnected world, they support real-time collaboration, access to files, and the use of applications from anywhere, as long as…

Endpoints, the New Data Security Frontier in the age of WFH

September 7, 2020December 1, 2023 Data Security

In the last decades, digitalization efforts have forced businesses to build increasingly complex systems to manage the mounting number of computers and devices operating on office premises. These company networks have,…

Macs in the Enterprise: How to Secure Data in Motion

August 28, 2020December 11, 2020 Macs in the enterprise

Data in motion, or data in transit, is data moving from one location to another, whether it’s between computers, virtual machines, from an endpoint to cloud services or through a private network and across untrusted internet…

Healthcare Data Security Concerns and How to Solve Them

August 25, 2020December 1, 2023 Data Security

Health information is among the most sensitive categories of data. Collected in high volume and stored in systems that are often vulnerable, health data has become an attractive target for malicious outsiders. The rise…

Why eDiscovery is essential for your data security

August 19, 2020December 1, 2023 Data Security

New data protection regulations require organizations a much stricter focus on data security and make data inventory a critical component for ensuring compliance. The amount of digital data continues to grow exponentially,…

Securing Data on macOS while Working from Home

August 14, 2020May 12, 2022 Data Loss Prevention Macs in the enterprise Work From Home

In the last two decades, Macs gradually entered the workplace, first as a specialized tool for creatives and, increasingly, as a device of choice in the enterprise. Its rise owes much to the introduction of policies that allowed…

Securing Data at Rest with DLP Content Discovery

July 31, 2020June 27, 2022 Data Loss Prevention

With digitalization efforts ramping up over the course of the last decade, most companies nowadays collect and use data on a daily basis. Ranging from sensitive information of employees and customers such as Personally…

Protecting Intellectual Property with Data Loss Prevention

July 24, 2020June 27, 2022 Data Loss Prevention

When talking about data protection, there is an increasing tendency to refer to personally identifiable information (PII), protected under the new wave of data protection legislation such as the California Consumer Privacy…

A new chapter for DLP: CoSoSys announces Endpoint Protector Enterprise

July 21, 2020December 8, 2020 Data Loss Prevention

Our powerful, flexible and highly scalable Data Loss Prevention (DLP) solution package is on the way, addressing the risks of data loss and compliance of enterprise clients. We at CoSoSys are aware that in the age of digital…

Defending Sensitive Data on macOS with Endpoint Protector

July 17, 2020May 11, 2022 Data Loss Prevention Macs in the enterprise

In the last decade, Macs have gradually made their way into the workplace. Long the computer of choice in specialized fields such as design and media, their numbers rose with the implementation of Bring-Your-Own-Device…

The Risk Of USB Threats To Industrials Has Doubled Over 12 Months

July 16, 2020July 16, 2020 Data Loss Prevention Encryption

Small USB drives keep causing big security threats, including malware and loss of critical data The findings from the latest Honeywell Industrial USB Threat Report show that the severity of cybersecurity threats caused…