Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 29, 2022

How the new Spirion-Thales partnership enables sensitive-data-centric encryption. Encryption achieves this goal by making the data readable only to those individuals with the proper access levels. It’s a similar overreach to encrypt all the data your company collects, but many organizations are doing just that.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 17, 2022

The value of Key Rotation and Re-encryption. To meet various compliance requirements and reduce the risk of your most sensitive data getting compromised you may want to consider changing the encryption key used to protect this data. Thales refers to this changing of encryption keys as “Key rotation” or “Rekey”.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

You can now implement and maintain encryption with minimal impact. This, in turn, requires the protection of a strong cybersecurity architecture. This, in turn, requires the protection of a strong cybersecurity architecture. But deployment and management of encryption generally incur downtime. Initial encryption.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 3, 2018

Large data scale breaches have led an increasing number of companies to embrace comprehensive encryption strategies to protect their assets. According to our 2018 Global Encryption Trends Study , 43% of respondents report that their organization has an encryption strategy they apply across the enterprise, compared with 15% in 2005.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 12, 2023

Privacy controls allow you to say who or what can access a database of customer data or employee data. Controls need to be in place to protect individuals’ privacy rights, including, often, their right to be forgotten and be deleted from your company database. still available for you to use.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 12, 2024

This also protects sensitive data and minimizes legal and reputational issues. Industry-specific rules: Check relevant regulations on a regular basis to verify data security compliance , and use DLP to protect sensitive data and reduce regulatory risks. Encrypt data at rest with encryption algorithms and secure storage techniques.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 13, 2018

Data encryption has been around almost since the age of computers. In truth, anyone with minimal experience can write a simple script that uses default services built into virtually every OS to encrypt data. In Linux, for instance, it takes four openSSL commands to generate an encryption key and encrypt data.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 26, 2018

Enterprise databases house some of the most highly-sensitive, tightly-regulated data—the very data that is sought after by malicious insiders and external attackers. In fact, recent research by Aberdeen found that 86% of enterprises use multiple database vendors.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 17, 2023

Cybercriminals use it as a launching pad to block access to business-critical systems by encrypting data in files, databases, or entire computer systems, until the victim pays a ransom. Cybercriminals hold your data hostage by encrypting it, and threaten to destroy it or publish it, unless a large ransom is paid.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

The Apple Mail app available on macOS stores leave s a portion of users encrypted emails in plaintext in a database called snippets. The Apple expert Bob Gendler discovered that the Apple Mail app available on macOS stores leaves a portion of users encrypted emails in plaintext in a database called snippets.

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Robert's Db2

JUNE 30, 2020

Just last week, a person on the Db2 for z/OS team at an organization asked me for some guidance regarding data encryption in a Db2 context. The categories of Db2 for z/OS data encryption I will address herein are as follows: Application-transparent encryption of Db2 data "at rest" (i.e.,

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 25, 2017

To combat threats and keep data safe, IT teams must employ robust encryption, key management, and access controls. To secure storage, many organizations have been leveraging native encryption offerings from their storage vendors. On the other hand, many enterprise applications now offer native encryption capabilities.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2024

“The attacker attempted to encrypt GHC-SCW’s system but was unsuccessful.” “On February 9, 2024, during our investigation, we discovered indications that the attacker had copied some of GHC-SCW’s data, which included protected health information (PHI).”

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2023

More than 22,000 users of Blink Mobility should take the necessary steps to protect themselves against the risk of identity theft. Los Angeles-based electric car-sharing provider Blink Mobility left a misconfigured MongoDB database open to the public. Anyone with any MongoDB viewer could have accessed the public-facing database.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2022

Threat actors got to a database with over 152,000 customer records before its owner, the Turkish branch of Harvard Business Review, closed it. Crooks left a ransom note, threatening to leak the data and inform authorities of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) violations. Original Post published on CyberNews.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 4, 2021

One reality of managing large organizations involves collecting massive amounts of sensitive data that is stored and managed in databases. This makes databases a prime target for cyberattacks. In this article, we cover some database security best practices that can help keep your databases safe from attackers.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

With organizations around the world now deploying ever-increasing amounts of encryption solutions in an effort to ward off cybercrime, businesses are facing a combination of challenges. Protecting data through encryption. Protecting data through encryption. Using centralized key management to streamline operations.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 23, 2022

This file is encrypted using AES-256-CBC encryption combined with Base64 encoding. A 4-digit application PIN (which gets set during the initial onboarding when a user first instals the application) is the encryption password used to protect or encrypt the licence data.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Not all types of encryption give you the coverage and flexibility you need. There’s no one-size-fits-all solution for protecting account data; every organization is different, faces different threats and has different security objectives that (ideally) go beyond PCI DSS compliance. Application. Have questions?

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2024

This is not good for advocates of data protection but great for attackers who thrive in our confusion and in the gaps that exist between the boxes. Sometimes, the history tells the story – was this information kept in high-clearance databases only to end up on Chad’s Slack? Something must be off.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 4, 2021

In two of the intrusions, the attackers made off with the forums’ user databases, including email and Internet addresses and hashed passwords. References to the leaked Mazafaka crime forum database were posted online in the past 48 hours. . The database also includes ICQ numbers for many users.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 5, 2024

Strong encryption protects data securely from unauthorized access, but the specific algorithms that qualify as strong encryption change over time as computing power increases and researchers develop new ways to break encryption. What Makes an Encryption Algorithm Strong?

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Security Affairs

JUNE 29, 2023

Data protection firm Arcserve addressed an authentication bypass vulnerability in its Unified Data Protection (UDP) backup software. Data protection vendor Arcserve addressed a high-severity bypass authentication flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-26258, in its Unified Data Protection (UDP) backup software.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 30, 2023

It’s neither hard nor expensive : Unlike password authentication, which requires a direct match between what is inputted and what’s stored in a database, fingerprint authentication determines a match using a reference threshold. The process uses a neural-style transfer when converting the database into the usable dictionary.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 24, 2018

billion Indian citizens was reported to have been made publicly available when the country’s national ID database was breached. One thing all of these incidents have in common is how accessible the leaked information was after the breaches themselves occurred, something that could have been avoided had the data been encrypted.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 12, 2024

The global nature of cloud providers introduces a complex web of compliance challenges as data protection laws differ across regions. Organizations must conduct meticulous due diligence on the legal landscapes of the cloud providers’ operational jurisdictions, ensuring alignment with data protection regulations.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 23, 2020

“Signal keeps its database encrypted using SqlScipher, so reading it requires a key. “Once the decrypted key is obtained, we needed to know how to decrypt the database. . “Once the decrypted key is obtained, we needed to know how to decrypt the database. By doing so we managed to decrypt the database.”

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Strategies and Best Practices for Protecting Sensitive Data. Protecting sensitive data is the last line of defense. Companies have realized that protecting sensitive data through access controls, encryption and tokenization is the last line of defense for preventing data exposure and reducing overall business risks.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 12, 2023

a leader in ultra-secure backup and recovery, is tackling the pressing data protection and security challenges faced by organizations utilizing the thousands of Software as a Service (SaaS) applications on the market today. Toronto, Canada, July 12, 2023 – Asigra Inc.,

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 19, 2022

As the leading enterprise-class NoSQL database platform, Couchbase is relied upon by many of the world’s largest enterprises to power the core applications on which their businesses depend. Couchbase partners with Thales to bring transparent encryption to secure on-disk data. Modernize Data Security for a Modern Database.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

One of the modules analyzed by the experts, named GetMicInfo, implements an algorithm that allows operators to gather database passwords by decrypting them from Windows registry values. . version, database server data), and “Proclist” that gathers details about currently running processes. ” continues the analysis.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 18, 2024

From that story: From the samples shared by the threat actor, the database contains customers' names, addresses, phone numbers, Social Security numbers, and date of birth. The above example simply didn't have plain text entries for the encrypted data.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Vladimir Soukharev, InfoSec Global The advent of quantum computers poses a substantial threat to various industries due to their potential to compromise standard encryption methods that protect global data, communications, and transactions. This vulnerability could expose sensitive enterprise information to risk. In the U.S.,

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Security Affairs

MAY 11, 2020

During COVID-19 outbreak data processors have to be extra vigilant to maintain their compliance with data protection authorities like GDPR. Now the data processors have to be extra vigilant to maintain their compliance with data protection authorities like GDPR. Protected Devices. Encrypted Tools. Secured Network.

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2021

CyberNews researchers found more than 29,000 unprotected databases worldwide that are still publicly accessible, leaving close to 19,000 terabytes of data exposed to anyone, including threat actors. Most organizations use databases to store sensitive information. But just how many unsecured databases are still out there?

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2023

Trigona is written in Delphi language, it encrypts files without distinguishing their extensions and appends the “._locked” _locked” extension to the filename of encrypted files. The svchost.bat also deletes volume shadow copies and disables the system recovery feature to prevent victims from recovering the encrypted files.

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Rocket Software

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

To combat this, payment processors need to take even greater care during the holidays to guard their business and protect their customers’ personal information. Protect Data at Rest and in Transit. Key management policies can be defined and enforced for individual encryption keys so that only the appropriate users are granted access.

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