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Leopard Spots and Zebra Stripes: Big Data and Identity Management

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

In this age of big data, the concept is fitting, because this kind of information is increasingly being used to identify individuals and even machines. For years identity management has relied on three factors for authentication: What one knows (passwords). Big Data Analytics. What one has (tokens).

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Chinese Antivirus Firm Was Part of APT41 ‘Supply Chain’ Attack

Krebs on Security

” The government alleges the group monetized its illicit access by deploying ransomware and “ cryptojacking ” tools (using compromised systems to mine cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin). “SonarX served as an easily searchable repository for social media data that previously had been obtained by CHENGDU 404.”

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Leopard Spots and Zebra Stripes: Fraud and Behavioral Analytics

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

In this blog, and in an accompanying one by my Thales colleague Juan Asenjo, we will discuss the subject of big data analytics, and how it is enabling a new behavior-based authentication evolution for easier and more robust identity management.

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The three main types of cryptography

IBM Big Data Hub

Consider the security vulnerability of a database of stored bank account passwords. Anyone with either authorized or unauthorized access to the bank’s computer systems could potentially read every password. Without knowing the user’s password, the hash value cannot be broken.

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The three main types of cryptography

IBM Big Data Hub

Consider the security vulnerability of a database of stored bank account passwords. Anyone with either authorized or unauthorized access to the bank’s computer systems could potentially read every password. Without knowing the user’s password, the hash value cannot be broken.

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Cryptography use cases: From secure communication to data security 

IBM Big Data Hub

Hash functions are also frequently used to verify user passwords without needing to create a vulnerable client-side database of private passwords. Instead, services like online banking portals will only collect and store the hashes of user passwords.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Incident Response in the Cloud

ForAllSecure

And then you go and help the customer on site because the data is on site and you need to actually kind of get hands on to the point we used to do imaging in big data centers and stuff and it take hours because terabytes of data and you'd have people sleeping in the data center, like which is crazy.

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