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The State of Blockchain Applications in Cybersecurity

eSecurity Planet

Whether perceived or real, a lack of understanding about blockchain technology has slowed the adoption of advanced distributed database technology in the past decade. This functionality makes forging a record in a blockchain ledger extremely difficult at best. However, federal officials didn’t reverse the blockchain transaction.

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Understanding Blockchain and its Impact on Legal Technology, Part Four

eDiscovery Daily

Now, Tom has written another terrific overview regarding blockchain and legal technology titled Understanding Blockchain and its Impact on Legal Technology that we’re happy to share on the eDiscovery Daily blog. General Use Cases for Blockchain. Several actual examples may show the actual utility of blockchain.

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The Scammers’ Playbook: How Cybercriminals Get Ahold of Your Data

eSecurity Planet

since Q3 of 2007. One particularly potent emergent technology for scammers is blockchain and the related cryptocurrency and NFTs. Blockchain supporters have touted it as a fraud prevention tool, but while blockchain can be useful in preventing certain kinds of attacks, it is incredibly vulnerable to others.

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KMIP: The Cure for the Common Key Management Headache

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

In many organizations, the proliferation of encryption deployments has been directly proportional to the rise in disparate key repositories—and associated key management headaches. In the years that followed, the use of encryption has seen dramatic growth, which has only served to intensify the need for a standard like KMIP.

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Best Digital Forensics Tools & Software for 2021

eSecurity Planet

Developed by the SANS Institute in 2007, SIFT works on 64-bit OS, automatically updates the software with the latest forensic tools and techniques, and is a memory optimizer. The first version of Volatility was launched at Black Hat and DefCon in 2007 and based its services around academic research into advanced memory analysis and forensics.

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Top VC Firms in Cybersecurity of 2022

eSecurity Planet

Company Sector Year Status Exabeam UEBA 2021 Private Cato Networks SASE 2020 Private Confluera Cloud XDR 2019 Private Aqua Container security 2017 Private Netskope SASE 2017 Private Zscaler Zero trust 2012 Nasdaq: ZS Sailpoint Identity management 2007 Private. New Enterprise Associates (NEA). NightDragon. Redpoint Ventures. YL Ventures.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Voting Systems

ForAllSecure

Vamosi: Back in 2007 the California Secretary of State, Debra Bowen, did the unthinkable: she decertified all the digital voting systems in the state. Things like network encryption, certificate pinning - is this device domain joined or not? They're calling it a blockchain. It's not a true blockchain. Apple Podcasts.