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Financial Services Data – More at risk than you’d believe

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

One of the top findings from the 2018 Thales Data Threat Report, Financial Services Edition was that data breaches in U.S. financial services organizations are increasing at an alarming rate. Not only are breaches at record highs – with 65% of U.S. banking customers.

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NY Charges First American Financial for Massive Data Leak

Krebs on Security

According to a filing (PDF) by the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS), the weakness that exposed the documents was first introduced during an application software update in May 2014 and went undetected for years.

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Q&A: How emulating attacks in a live environment can more pervasively protect complex networks

The Last Watchdog

And at Black Hat USA 2018 , the company unveiled a new CyberFlood functionality that makes it possible for an enterprise to emulate a real-world attack in a live environment. We have customers within the financial services vertical that do this on a regular basis. LW: How did the idea for data breach emulation come about?

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It’s time to think twice about retail loyalty programs

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

As I was starting to write this blog, yet another retail program data breach occurred, for Marriott’s Starwood loyalty program. 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. This had me asking a simple question – Why?

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Federal Agency Data is Under Siege

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

to discuss the findings of the 2018 Thales Data Threat Report, Federal Edition. Question: Can you provide an overview of the 2018 Thales Data Threat Report, Federal Edition, and elaborate why it’s needed today more than ever? This year’s report is especially relevant because it tells us federal agency data is under siege.