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Federal Agency Data is Under Siege

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Originally Featured in Global Military Communications Magazine’s June/July Issue. Question: According to the report, in the past year, 57 percent of federal respondents experienced a data breach, compared with 34 percent in 2017 and 18 percent in 2016. What can you tell us about these breaches, and why are they becoming so prolific?

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Weekly podcast: 2018 end-of-year roundup

IT Governance

Rather than dropping ransomware on victims’ machines and hoping they would pay to regain access to their files, cyber criminals were increasingly cutting out the middle man and infecting victims’ machines with software that used their spare processing power to mine for cryptocurrency. In March, it transpired that a further 2.4