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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 secureunstructured 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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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. Cyber Attacks: Cyber-attacks are another cause of data loss.

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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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Key steps on the road to LGPD compliance

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Additionally, organizations are obligated to report any data security incidents or breaches to Brazilian national authorities. Access to data and visibility provides insights into the locations and types of data held by an organization (Article 50). Reduced Risk of Exposure. How to Fast Track LGPD Compliance.

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RSAC insights: Concentric AI directs Google’s search techniques towards locking down data sprawl

The Last Watchdog

What good is connecting applications, servers and networks across the public cloud if you’re unable to securely operationalize the datasets that these interconnected systems store and access? Solving data sprawl has now become a focal point of cybersecurity. And addressing data security has become paramount.

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eSecurity Planet’s 2022 Cybersecurity Product Awards

eSecurity Planet

The editors of eSecurity Planet have been giving advice to enterprise security buyers for more than a decade, and for the last five years we’ve been rating the top enterprise cybersecurity products, compiling roughly 50 lists to date on every product imaginable, from networks to endpoints and out to the cloud and beyond.