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Today, organizations leverage a plethora of software applications to enhance productivity, increase collaboration, and evolve their businesses. Some of these applications are IT approved and are purchased with a license by the organization at large; for example, Office 365, Slack, or Salesforce. These are referred to as licenced, managed, and sanctioned applications, but they all fall under the same app category (these titles can be used interchangeably).
The Perfect Sales Kick Off
SKO ‘19 is in the bag, the team has left, and it feels like the party has ended. It is now time to reflect. Did we achieve our goals? What did we learn?
Is the team motivated? Yes ✔
Did we manage to educate them? Yes ✔
Are we aligned on messaging, strategy, philosophy, and being a cohesive global team? Yes ✔
Did we celebrate our success? Yes, enthusiastically ✔✔
Were there zero HR violations, injuries, or arrests? YES ✔✔✔
In that case, we can officially call Bitglass SKO ‘19 a rip-roaring success.
In a recent Bitglass Security Spotlight, we enumerated the risks associated with failing to implement proper data and threat protection in financial services. Financial organizations are often targeted by hackers who are looking to seize personally identifiable information (PII) and nonpublic personal information (NPI) – this information is useful for identity theft and lucrative to sell on the dark web. Data loss prevention (DLP) and access controls are obvious priorities, and while employees generally use managed devices in the financial industry, data leakage is still a common occurrence.