Cryptography & Cybersecurity

Blogs, articles and briefs on all things cryptography & cybersecurity - this is where the good stuff is (let's talk about decentralization, trust - or zero trust, data protection and more)

Compliance PHIPA, the Canadian Healthcare Compliance Regulation is More Than Just a HIPAA Clone North America has two strong healthcare compliance regulations, HIPAA (USA) and PHIPA (Canada). While the two are very similar, it’s important for Canadian healthcare companies to understand the differences - and what they are responsible for when choosing a provider that will help them communicate, collaborate, and share patient

HighSide Staff • 3 min read

Compliance Facebook's whistleblower and what it means for your data security & GDPR program With the recent testimony in Congress on October 5 by former Facebook employee and now whistleblower, Frances Haugen, has drawn the curtain back on management’s priorities at the company, and it isn’t good. Basically, she claims profits are the top priority among Facebook’s leaders. [https://www.vox.

Evan Blair • 3 min read

Compliance What you need to know about HIPAA; email, collaboration, messaging, and data sharing The need for improved HIPAA compliant technologies is becoming more apparent. The number of data breaches in the healthcare industry has increased steadily for the past four years. From 2015 to 2018 alone, healthcare breaches increased [https://www.hipaajournal.com/study-reveals-70-increase-in-healthcare-data-breaches-between-2010-and-2017/] by more than 26%. And while cyber attacks are

Cecilia Clark • 7 min read

Cryptography & Cybersecurity [3 Minute Video] HighSide CSO dishes on “Dark Halo”, The First Global Microsoft 365 Breach Listen to HighSide CSO Aaron Turner give a 3 minute “deep-dive” on the Dark Halo attack, detailing how adversaries exploited vulnerabilities in Microsoft Teams to gain access to sensitive, proprietary and regulated data.

HighSide Staff • 1 min read

Cryptography & Cybersecurity Why can’t I use SFTP for secure file transfer? With most businesses still adapting to the new normal of remote and decentralized work, we wanted to take a quick look at two of the tools / techniques some businesses have dusted the cobwebs off of to share data with their employees and partners around the world – FTP, SFTP, and FTPS.

HighSide Staff • 4 min read

Engineering HighSide’s Distributed Private Root of Trust Cryptography Explained Last updated 1/13/21 This is a technical overview of how HighSide’s encrypted messaging & file sharing works for those who are interested in specifics. You do not need to read or understand any of this to use HighSide correctly unless you are the admin for your team

Jonathan Warren • 11 min read

Cryptography & Cybersecurity The State of in-Security in Collaboration & Cloud File Sharing Applications Data security, privacy and access integrity has never been more at risk. In this post we’re going to talk about how the communication, file sharing and file storage layers have become a huge security vulnerability for organizations of all sizes, why, and what you can do about it. Your

Brendan Diaz • 16 min read

Cryptography & Cybersecurity HighSide CSO Aaron Turner dishes on Zoom and the (in)security of modern business technology on the RSA Conference Podcast TikTok and Huawei are probably two of the most notable Chinese technology companies that are enveloped in policy debates. The US government’s most recent actions against TikTok could be an indication of future actions that could be taken against Chinese technology companies. Join us for the important discussion about

Evan Blair • 1 min read