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The importance of encryption in complying with Australia’s Privacy Amendment Act

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

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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UK ICO Issues Unprecedented Fine Against Mobile Phone Retailer for Lax Security

Hunton Privacy

On January 8, 2017, the UK Information Commissioner (“ICO”) issued an unprecedented monetary penalty of £400,000 against British mobile phone retailer, The Car Phone Warehouse Limited. the encryption keys for historical transactions were not stored safely.

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Top 12 Cloud Security Best Practices for 2021

eSecurity Planet

Does the provider encrypt data while in transit and at rest? Specifically, these tools address a number of security requirements, including patch management , endpoint encryption, VPNs , and insider threat prevention among others. Encrypt data in motion and at rest. Encryption is a key part of any cloud security strategy.

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MY TAKE: New ‘cyberthreat index’ shows SMBs cognizant of big risks, ill-prepared to deal with them

The Last Watchdog

Last February, Dallas-based email encryption vendor Zix Corp. Certain verticals, namely the government and transportation sectors, gave themselves a positive preparedness rating; meanwhile the hospitality, legal and retail sectors were much less positive about their cybersecurity preparedness.

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Federal Agency Data is Under Siege

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Of those organizations, 57 percent have been breached in the last year – a number that is three times the rate of just two years ago (in our 2016 report, 18 percent reported a breach within the last year, and in our 2017 report, 34 percent reported a breach within the last year). This bears out in the stats: Nearly half (45 percent) of U.S.

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FIFA caught hook, line and sinker in phishing attack

IT Governance

Football world-governing body FIFA has admitted that its systems suffered a sustained phishing hack earlier this year. After all, this is the second time the organisation has suffered a high-profile breach – the first was in 2017 when Russian hacking group Fancy Bears disclosed details of players who had failed drugs tests.

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Morrisons loses data leak appeal

IT Governance

Morrisons sought to reverse the December 2017 ruling of what was the UK’s first class action data breach case, saying it could not be held directly or vicariously liable for the criminal misuse of the data, and that any other conclusion would be grossly unjust. The post Morrisons loses data leak appeal appeared first on IT Governance Blog.