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MY TAKE: The no. 1 reason ransomware attacks persist: companies overlook ‘unstructured data’

The Last Watchdog

All too many companies lack a full appreciation of how vital it has become to proactively manage and keep secure “unstructured data.”. One reason for the enduring waves of ransomware is that unstructured data is easy for hackers to locate and simple for them to encrypt. A few takeaways: Outside a database.

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Key steps on the road to LGPD compliance

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Key steps on the road to LGPD compliance. Brazil, the largest country in both South America and Latin America, released a data privacy law bringing new business opportunities, especially in the international domain. Visibility across the organization provides the accurate data it needs to make informed decisions.

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Don't Encrypt Everything; Protect Intelligently

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Don't Encrypt Everything; Protect Intelligently. The volume of confidential documents created daily is, frankly, incalculable, and the volume of “everything” distributed across multiple data centers around the world is much, much more. Encrypting everything is time intensive because of explosive data growth.

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The Impacts of Data Loss on Your Organization

Security Affairs

Structured data is highly valuable for generating reports, performing statistical analysis, and gaining insights into operational efficiency. Examples: Customer Personal Identifiable Information, transactional data, inventory records, and financial statements. They pose a significant threat to data security.

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How Machine Learning Can Accelerate and Improve the Accuracy of Sensitive Data Classification

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Part of this process includes identifying where and how data is stored—on-premises, in third-party servers or in the cloud. While an organization might already know the location of structured data such as a primary customer database store, unstructured data (such as that found in stray files and emails) is more difficult to locate.

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Can visibility be the key to better privacy?

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Having a partial understanding of your data or operating over a reduced area of the problem is like leaving the backdoor open. Organizations need to move towards a more holistic and proactive approach to addressing security threats and managing compliance requirements in today’s data-driven economy. Data security.

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eSecurity Planet’s 2022 Cybersecurity Product Awards

eSecurity Planet

There is no substitution for your own testing and analysis, of course, but this list will serve as an introduction to the breadth and depth of our product coverage. Exabeam Fusion offers a stack of security features akin to SIEM solutions from IBM, LogRhythm, and Splunk, with specializations in insider threats and compliance.