5 Strategies for Protecting Sensitive Content in a Dangerously Connected World

The modern enterprise spends millions of dollars on cyber security, yet the modern CISO can’t say in any specific detail what information is entering and leaving the firm. How sensitive is it? Who is sending it? Who is receiving it? Where is it going? As a result, everyday workflows where employees exchange sensitive information with external parties expose the firm to constant threats, including leaks, phishing, malicious files, and compliance violations.

These external workflow threats have a common theme: a user is the actor, and a file is the agent. Complete protection requires a defense that spans the full breadth of the associated threat surface: the collective paths of all files entering and leaving your organization.

For most organizations, the threat surface of external workflows is only partially visible and partially defended. You can’t really see it by scanning packets, because packets are on the wrong layer. You can’t fully defend it by scanning a file, because a file is only one point on the larger surface.

In this post, the first in a series, we’ll take a look at the nature of threats from everyday external workflows and introduce 5 key strategies to avoid a data breach.

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