In recent years, data breaches and cyberattacks have become distressingly common. As companies generate ever-larger amounts of data, they become attractive targets for malicious attackers and clever cybercriminals. Smart organisations know that it’s no longer a matter of if they will be attacked, but when. If your company already has a robust cybersecurity program, congratulations! If not, we encourage you to start thinking about it sooner rather than later.
You should also pay more attention to the possible sources of cyberattacks. External attackers are not going anywhere so you definitely need strong firewalls, endpoint threat detection software, and intrusion detection and prevention systems. However, you should also pay more attention to internal threat sources.
Do your employees frequently email the wrong person?
Do they store sensitive documents where anyone can access them?
And most importantly, do they leave metadata inside documents and then send them via email to a huge number of recipients?
All these habits leave your firm vulnerable to data breaches. Metadata is particularly dangerous. If the wrong person – such as a data thief or cyber hacker – sees this metadata, it creates a huge security risk for your organisation. Metadata can reveal more about the company than the author intended. If it includes sensitive financial or personal information belonging to the author, the firm, or even your customers , the bad guy can access, compromise, and even steal it.
To protect your company, you must remove metadata from every document without fail. Of course, it’s not a good idea to do this manually. If your company generates hundreds of documents daily, manual removal will drive your people nuts!
Fortunately, there is an easy way to remove metadata from documents and protect your company from unintended information disclosure and breaches. Try a metadata removal solution like Litera Metadact.
To know more about Litera Metadact, contact the team @ Prime Infotech. They will show you how the software can add amazing value to your company’s cybersecurity programme.
