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How is DNSSEC different from encryption? 

IBM Big Data Hub

It’s a question we often hear: “Isn’t DNSSEC the same as encrypted DNS?” While DNSSEC protects networks against man-in-the-middle attacks, it does so through public key cryptography, which is different from encryption. How is public key cryptography different from encryption? ” Not really.

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Guest Blog: End-to-End Data Encryption with Data Reduction from Thales & Pure Storage

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

At the 2019 RSA Conference, Pure Storage and Thales introduced Vormetric Transparent Encryption for Efficient Storage – the IT and security industries’ first end-to-end data encryption framework that realizes storage array data reduction. Data Security: Low Adoption Amidst Increasing Requirements.

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Inside the Massive Alleged AT&T Data Breach

Troy Hunt

We're here at "alleged" for two very simple reasons: one is that AT&T is saying "the data didn't come from us", and the other is that I have no way of proving otherwise. But I have proven, with sufficient confidence, that the data is real and the impact is significant. For my part, I've got 4.8M

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How encryption can help address Cloud misconfiguration

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

How encryption can help address Cloud misconfiguration. Cloud service providers (CSPs) try to make it simple and easy for their users to comply with data privacy regulations and mandates. The gateway into the database was Microsoft's Jupyter Notebook, which enabled data visualizations and customized views.

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Mitigating Ransomware Attacks – Decoupling Encryption Keys From Encrypted Data

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Mitigating Ransomware Attacks – Decoupling Encryption Keys From Encrypted Data. Once the hackers gain an inside entry in an organisation’s IT systems, they deploy a file-encrypting malware known as ransomware. The report further reveals that 66% of the affected Indian companies paid ransom to get their data back.

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The value of Key Rotation and Re-encryption.

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

The value of Key Rotation and Re-encryption. To meet various compliance requirements and reduce the risk of your most sensitive data getting compromised you may want to consider changing the encryption key used to protect this data. Thales refers to this changing of encryption keys as “Key rotation” or “Rekey”.

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IBM releases open-source toolkits implementing FHE to process data while encrypted

Security Affairs

IBM has released open-source toolkits implementing fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) that allow researchers to process data while it’s still encrypted. In recent years, thanks to algorithmic advancements, Fully Homomorphic Encryption has reached an inflection point where its performance is becoming practical.