Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 16, 2018

The past year has seen a number of high profile security breaches tied to leaky storage servers. Specifically, the leakage of sensitive files connected to misconfigured security protocols on Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) buckets. If they don’t, they are at risk of becoming the next headline.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 24, 2018

November 2017 saw one of Australia’s biggest ever data breaches, in which sensitive personal information regarding almost 50,000 consumers and 5,000 public servants was exposed online. Here then, as with the breaches mentioned above, we can see the importance of an “encrypt everything” strategy, as referred to in my previous post.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 22, 2019

To protect their customers, their intellectual property, their reputations and their share prices, enterprises need best practice data security that is easy to use throughout this integrated environment. VMware Cloud on AWS is an integrated cloud offering that allows organizations to create vSphere data centers on Amazon Web Services.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 9, 2018

As the market leader in this space, the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud is on the forefront of integrating virtualization, storage, networking, and security, in a turnkey HCI solution. Perhaps one of the elements that is garnering the most attention right now is data security. Data breaches can have devastating consequences.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

The age of Big Data is upon us. And, as more data is available for analytical purposes, more sensitive and private information is at risk. Protecting the confidentiality and integrity and of warehoused data and ensuring that access is controlled is vital to keeping that data secure. respondents.”.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 31, 2018

The newest CipherTrust Cloud Key Manager capability. CipherTrust Cloud Key Manager is a multi-cloud encryption key management solution ideal for customers using Microsoft Azure Key Vault , Amazon Web Services Key Management Service , Microsoft Office365 or Salesforce Shield Platform Encryption.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 9, 2018

There is no longer denying that encryption is a hot topic. Encryption is everywhere. We hear about it when the FBI can’t hack an iPhone, when countries want back doors to compromise it, and, now, every major cloud provider offers at least baseline encryption as part of their service. Thales giveth keys.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 1, 2018

Around the world, enterprises are anxious about May 25, 2018, the day enforcement begins for the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). My purpose here is to provide guidance on how enterprises that are using, or are planning to deploy, container technology can ensure these are secured for compliance.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 8, 2018

Data is increasingly amassed and harnessed to accelerate organizational transformation in the new digital economy. Unprotected data at rest is an attractive target for cybercriminals, and in today’s ever more distributed environment, not a week goes by without hearing of a new data breach. Database Security.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 16, 2019

On March 22, we learned through The New York Times that: The Federal Emergency Management Agency unnecessarily shared sensitive personal data of more than two million disaster victims with a contractor, subjecting that information to potential identity theft and fraud… 1. The Right to Secure PII and PHI. I’m appalled.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Unfortunately, our industry can do “better” as not all of the security news the past year has been positive. The historic amount of coverage that data breaches have produced in 2018 has exposed executives and consumers to the importance of security, like no year before.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Critical infrastructure, as defined by Department of Homeland Security : describes the physical and cyber systems and assets that are so vital to the United States that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on our physical or economic security or public health or safety. Perimeter Defense.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 10, 2019

Together, Thales and Gemalto will have the ability to cover the digital needs of our customers and partners, in civilian and defense businesses, across all Thales market segments, with a unique portfolio of advanced technologies in the fields of digital security and the Internet of Things.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 4, 2019

The combination of our two companies creates the worldwide leader in digital security, protecting more data, transactions and identities than any other company and enabling tens of thousands of organizations to deliver trusted digital services to billions of individuals around the world. The Leading Data Protection Provider.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Reflecting organizations’ persistent interest in IoT, International Data Corporation (IDC) estimates that overall, the number of smart devices will reach 41.6 zettabytes (ZB) of data by 2025. The issue is that these tens of billions of new devices will likely amplify the inherent security risks of IoT. IoT Protection is Key.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

The 2018 Thales Data Threat Report (DTR) has great information on Big Data use and security. We surveyed more than 1,200 senior security executives from around the world, and virtually all (99%) report they plan to use Big Data this year. Top Big Data Security Concerns. Big Data is unstructured.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 3, 2019

It’s 2019 and data is everywhere – and what you can do with what is at your fingertips is truly transformative. Unfortunately, with every possibility a new security risk appears, and as a CISO you are well-aware of the implications. Who Needs to Buy-in to Your Security Strategy? What’s in that Big Data Lake?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 9, 2018

Today, the same doctrine can be applied to enterprise applications and data that is being threatened by a complex dynamic of attack vectors. Privileged users today can include a multitude of people from system administrators, network engineers, and database administrators, to data center operators, upper management, and security personnel.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 11, 2018

As I was starting to write this blog, yet another retail program data breach occurred, for Marriott’s Starwood loyalty program. But it looks like my own personal data has been breached – again. What I’d originally planned to write about was a topic that directly applies – why retailers of all stripes are not investing in data security.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Certifying the full compatibility of the Thales Vormetric Data Security Manager (DSM) with the VMware platform was a critical element in ensuring our mutual customers’ satisfaction. Thales configured the Vormetric Data Security Manager and complete certification within a few hours.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

My last blog about Vormetric Application Encryption covered new RESTful APIs and it revealed that those APIs provide quite a bit of granular control in the use of encryption keys. This enhances security by reducing the “attack surface” in an IT environment while maintaining IT efficiency with centralized access control policies.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 9, 2018

Solutions like Cisco’s HyperFlex can provide cloud-like simplification and savings with on premises data center-like scale, performance, and reliability; the best of both worlds. And, like any enterprise computing environment, the encryption of sensitive data has become a fundamental requirement.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 8, 2018

In many organizations, the proliferation of encryption deployments has been directly proportional to the rise in disparate key repositories—and associated key management headaches. The Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP) represents a cure to this common malady. Vormetric Data Security Manager Leverages KMIP.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

Naturally, database vendors are leading providers of database security tools, and a growing number of cloud-based database providers are moving deeper into the data security space. These databases house the crown jewels of many organizations, critical applications and customer data, and thus are a primary target of hackers.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

But in the data-security world, we might play “Truth or DAR,” as in data at rest. Here is a “Truth” about “DAR:” There is no silver bullet for securing all of your agencies’ data. There is not a single vendor or product on the market that can provide A-Z data security. Encrypt Everything?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 6, 2017

In the month of November, I wrote about the options available specifically to secure data as part of a PCI DSS compliance effort. Most data that is created, processed and stored by an organization has nothing to do with payments. The benefits of thinking beyond PCI DSS. The benefits of thinking beyond PCI DSS.

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