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Practical guides on finding sensitive data, cleaning it up, and meeting the rules that apply to small offices. Every article is a 2 to 10 minute read.

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Getting Started

MyVaultMate 2.0: nothing to install

Oct 30, 2026 · 3 min read

MyVaultMate 2.0 is one file per system. Download it, run it, sign in with your account, and it scans on your schedule. No installer, no tokens, no license key.

Getting Started

Your first scan: what to expect in the first hour

Oct 15, 2026 · 5 min read

A plain walk-through of what happens after you add your first computer to MyVaultMate: the first full scan, what shows up in the dashboard, what is normal, and what to do with your first results.

Getting Started

How to read a MyVaultMate finding (and what to do with it)

Oct 13, 2026 · 4 min read

Every finding has the same fields: path, type, kind of data, severity, frameworks, count and a redacted sample. Here is what each one tells you and a simple routine for deciding what to do next.

Getting Started

Choosing scan paths: where to point the agent first

Oct 10, 2026 · 3 min read

You decide which drives and folders get scanned. Here is a practical order for choosing paths, from the folders people use daily to synced cloud folders and USB disks.

Getting Started

Scan schedules: hourly, daily, weekly or manual?

Oct 8, 2026 · 4 min read

MyVaultMate can scan manually, hourly, daily or weekly. Here is how full and incremental scans differ and how to match a schedule to the way your office works.

Getting Started

Adding a computer: download one file, run it, sign in

Oct 5, 2026 · 4 min read

What MyVaultMate runs on, how to add a computer on Windows 10 and 11 or on Linux in about a minute, what the SmartScreen warning means, and how to roll it out across an office.

Product & Plans

Office, Practice or Firm: choosing a MyVaultMate plan

Oct 2, 2026 · 3 min read

How the three MyVaultMate plans differ by locations and devices, how to count your own computers and sites, and which items are still marked coming soon.

Product & Plans

What a MyVaultMate report contains, section by section

Sep 30, 2026 · 6 min read

A tour of the PDF report: the page you can send to your insurance broker, the three average risk scores, then the internal pages with the five headline numbers, findings by data type and by computer, the highest-risk files and the next steps.

Product & Plans

Monthly or yearly billing: how it works

Sep 27, 2026 · 4 min read

How MyVaultMate billing works from trial to activation: monthly or yearly on every plan, yearly is two months free, no charge during the trial, and cancel any time.

Security Practices

Writing a Data Security Policy Your Employees Will Actually Follow

Sep 26, 2026 · 4 min read

Most data security policies are written once, filed away and never read again. Here is how to write one short enough that people follow it, and how to check that they do.

Product & Plans

The 14-day trial: a day-by-day plan

Sep 24, 2026 · 4 min read

A practical schedule for the 14-day MyVaultMate trial: add one computer first, review findings, widen the scan, test a clean-up and choose a plan when the 14 days end.

Sensitive Data 101

Payment card numbers: how detection works and why the Luhn check matters

Sep 22, 2026 · 4 min read

A string of 16 digits is not automatically a card number. Here is how pattern matching plus the Luhn checksum separates real-looking cards from random numbers, and what PCI says about what you may keep.