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5 Reasons to Choose Sensisivity.io SDK

With the rise of data protection regulations, ensuring that sensitive data is safeguarded properly has become an essential step in the development of every app and service.

To achieve compliance with emerging rules, app owners need an app-specific approach to secure data moving to and from devices. Failing to comply with these legislations and exposing sensitive medical, financial or personal data could result in hefty fines. A data leakage or loss can have other harmful after-effects as well, including legal fees and brand damage.

sensitivity.io Software Development Kits (SDKs) were launched with a simple goal in mind: to inject security, Data…

How sensitivity.io takes care of your sensitive data in the cloud?

Cloud migration is an important step in the digital transformation journey of any organization. According to a press release published by Gartner, Inc. in September 2018, “the worldwide public cloud services market is projected to grow 17.3 percent in 2019 to total $206.2 billion, up from $175.8 billion in 2018. (…) By 2022, Gartner expects that 90 percent of organizations purchasing public cloud IaaS will do so from an integrated IaaS and platform as a service (PaaS) provider, and will use both the IaaS and PaaS capabilities from that provider.”*

There are a number of reasons why companies prefer moving to the cloud, including reduced costs,…

What does it take to build a secure app by design?

In an article published on SD Times, CoSoSys’s CEO and founder, Roman Foeckl, spoke about the future of data security and the impact new data protection regulations such as the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will have on the application development process. More specifically, the article addresses a new data protection requirement introduced under the GDPR: from now on applications will need to be built secure by design and by default.

What this essentially means is that, while until now the decision concerning the level of security of an app or service was left in the hands of the company or the development team building it, under the…

Introducing a new category of Data Loss Prevention

When we entered the Data Loss Prevention (DLP) market, all vendors were exploring the possibilities of an unknown territory. Most of them, including us, started with Device Control or USB security capabilities for organizations – to remotely control users’ access rights to USB devices, CDs, DVDs, HDDs, and other storage devices and to encrypt data on them. Slowly the market evolved to offer advanced content-aware DLP, either at network or endpoint level. Currently, the products’ offerings have aligned more or less, and what DLP means has been standardized to a certain level by analysts, industry experts, and security professionals.

Now, in 2017,…

Welcome to sensitivity.io blog!

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Who we are

We are a team of InfoSec enthusiasts, maybe a bit intense about the privacy of personal and company data, with experience in Data Loss Prevention, Device Control, USB security, encryption, Mobile Device Management, and other cyber security areas. We have one simple goal in mind: to bake in cyber security features into cloud, mobile and web applications for strong security starting at the core. We are best known for Endpoint Protector.

What is sensitivity.io?

Data security is a tough field for any active professional, but one of the hardest roles belongs to software developers. The…