Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 17, 2022

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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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

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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Security Affairs

APRIL 29, 2023

xyz pic.twitter.com/VLhISark8Y — Goldwave (@OGoldwave) March 13, 2023 The variant employed in the campaign supports a more sophisticated encryption method of byte remapping and a monthly rotation of the C2 server. #ViperSoftX is back, doesn't look like much has changed. c2 arrowlchat[.]com ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2020

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.

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IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 24, 2024

An online retailer always gets users’ explicit consent before sharing customer data with its partners. A navigation app anonymizes activity data before analyzing it for travel trends. One cannot overstate the importance of data privacy for businesses today. The user can accept or reject each use of their data individually.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

You’ll often see the terms cyber security and information security used interchangeably. In this blog, we explain what information security and cyber security are, the differences between them and how they fit into your data protection practices. What is information security? This is cyber security.

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IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Recent advances in areas like AI and quantum computing offer transformative potential for businesses, but may also bring new risks and security challenges. IBM is working to address these challenges and evolving threats by helping organizations support highly secure, resilient and durable storage through technology like Cloud Object Storage.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 12, 2023

Information privacy and information security are two different things. Related: Tapping hidden pools of security talent Information privacy is the ability to control who (or what) can view or access information that is collected about you or your customers. They take all this private information, and then they sell it.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 19, 2022

Wikipedia uses a CMS for textual entries, blog posts, images, photographs, videos, charts, graphics, and “ talk pages ” that help its many contributors collaborate. Security is essential for a CMS. Best security practices. According to the IBM Data Breach Report 2021 , data breaches in the United States reached $4.24

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 12, 2019

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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IT Governance

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Welcome to a new series of weekly blog posts rounding up the biggest and most interesting news stories. At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Records breached: Unknown, but sensitive personal data was probably breached.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Earlier this week, KrebsOnSecurity revealed that the darknet website for the Snatch ransomware group was leaking data about its users and the crime gang’s internal operations. That same email address was assigned to the user “Semen-7907” on the now defunct gaming website tunngle.net , which suffered a data breach in 2020.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 30, 2020

-based merchants suggest thieves are exploiting weaknesses in how certain financial institutions have implemented the technology to sidestep key chip card security features and effectively create usable, counterfeit cards. That data can then be encoded onto anything else with a magnetic stripe and used to place fraudulent transactions.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

However, healthcare data ranks at the top of the list for needing improvements in security and privacy protections. This data is managed by different entities, such as primary care facilities, acute care facilities and within associated applications that collect, store and track health data, creating numerous exposure vulnerabilities.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 10, 2021

Guest Blog: TalkingTrust. What’s driving the security of IoT? The Urgency for Security in a Connected World. Connectivity enables powerful, revenue-generating capabilities…from data telemetry and runtime analytics, to effectively predicting and maintenance requirements. Device Security is Hard.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

SaaS data security: here’s why enterprises need to focus on this fast-growing challenge now! In fact, today’s most successful companies are characterized by increased SaaS usage, with a growing percentage of critical business data running on SaaS apps. Of course, no good story is complete without some dark characters.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 2, 2020

The criminal group behind the REvil ransomware enterprise has begun auctioning off sensitive data stolen from companies hit by its malicious software. A partial screenshot from the REvil ransomware group’s Dark Web blog. “Others have gotten the message about the need for good backups, and probably don’t need to pay.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

The traditional focus on security has been on breach prevention and threat detection but these can only go so far. For organisations going through digital transformation there needs to be a layered approach to security – complimenting these traditional strategies with data protection.In Data, data and more data!

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Robert's Db2

JUNE 30, 2020

Just last week, a person on the Db2 for z/OS team at an organization asked me for some guidance regarding data encryption in a Db2 context. Thinking that this information might be of interest to a larger audience, I'll provide it in this blog entry.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 7, 2019

For many years, encryption has been viewed as a burden on businesses – expensive, complex and of questionable value. In recent years, we’ve seen a sharp rise in reporting and analysis of data breaches – arguably both a stimulant and a symptom of cyber-security taking its place on the board agenda. Enter encryption.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

The popular encrypted email service Tutanota was hit with a series of DDoS attacks this week targeting its website fist and its DNS providers later. Encrypted email service, Tutanota suffered a series of DDoS attacks that initially targeted the website and later its DNS providers. ” reads a blog post published by Tutanota.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

He’d been on the job less than six months, and because of the way his predecessor architected things, the company’s data backups also were encrypted by Zeppelin. “We’ve found someone who can crack the encryption.” Then came the unlikely call from an FBI agent. This is not an idle concern.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 7, 2020

While many companies have deployed extra measures to secure employees’ remote access to corporate resources and apps, it is important to think of all the necessary security measures to be taken in protecting sensitive data. Discover and classify your data. Understand the risks related to data.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Unfortunately, API attacks are increasing as vectors for security incidents. In this blog, we will explain the unique data security challenges for Telcos and three ways how both Thales and Red Hat can help them protect against future API attacks. These large subscriber bases in turn generate massive data volumes.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. The data included shoppers’ names, email addresses, phone numbers, countries of residence and membership numbers.

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OneHub

MAY 6, 2021

What exactly is data encryption? Data encryption is a complex facet of data security that consists of high-level mathematics and cryptography. Encryption protects data such as business files by making the information unreadable to unauthorized users. Do I really need to encrypt business files?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 27, 2019

This past March at RSAC 2019, Pure Storage and Thales introduced the security industry’s first end-to-end data encryption framework that realizes storage array data reduction efficiencies. Historically, host data encryption and array data reduction are like oil and water – they simply don’t mix.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 3, 2019

I recently had the pleasure of sharing some industry insights from our 2019 Data Threat Report-Federal Edition on Cyberwire’s Daily Podcast –specifically addressing the gap in security responsibility many federal agencies face today as they move tremendous amounts of sensitive data into multicloud environments.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2023

Open-source media player software provider Kodi discloses a data breach after threat actors stole its MyBB forum database. Kodi has disclosed a data breach, threat actors have stolen the company’s MyBB forum database that contained data for over 400K users and private messages. ” concludes the announcement.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 1, 2019

Matthew Green has a super-interesting blog post about information leakage from encrypted databases. It describes the recent work by Paul Grubbs, Marie-Sarah Lacharité, Brice Minaud, and Kenneth G. Even the summary is too much to summarize, so read it.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 13, 2018

Data encryption has been around almost since the age of computers. In truth, anyone with minimal experience can write a simple script that uses default services built into virtually every OS to encrypt data. In Linux, for instance, it takes four openSSL commands to generate an encryption key and encrypt data.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

With organizations around the world now deploying ever-increasing amounts of encryption solutions in an effort to ward off cybercrime, businesses are facing a combination of challenges. Protecting data through encryption. Protecting data through encryption. Using centralized key management to streamline operations.

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Data Matters

JUNE 23, 2022

Kentucky and Maryland recently continued the trend of state insurance departments adopting some version of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ (“NAIC”) Insurance Data Security Model Law. The post Kentucky and Maryland Recently Joined Other States in Adopting NAIC Model Data Security Law.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 9, 2019

The Cloud Security Challenge. According to the 2019 Thales Data Threat Report -Global Edition, some 90 percent of 1,200 responding data security professionals worldwide report their organizations are using the cloud. Data must be protected where it sits, in the data center, in the cloud, or at its termination point. [2].

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Security Affairs

MARCH 11, 2019

AZORult is a data stealer that was first spotted in 2016 by Proofpoint that discovered it was it was part of a secondary infection via the Chthonic banking trojan. In October a new version of the info-stealer appeared in the wild, it is able to steal more data, including other types of cryptocurrencies. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

In this blog, I take it a step further with a discussion about the options available for securing data. Not all types of encryption give you the coverage and flexibility you need. One of the most common and most effective approaches to protecting data is encryption. Application.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Here’s a frustrating reality about securing an enterprise network: the more closely you inspect network traffic, the more it deteriorates the user experience. Why do so many businesses struggle to balance network security and user experience? Security has always been a moving target, with new threat vectors emerging all the time.

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