IT Governance

JULY 11, 2019

That way, when crooks encrypt your systems, there’s no need to worry. For example, you should provide them with said pens and paper, direct them to hard copies of information they might need and bring in colleagues who can’t work to help out. If you don’t already have cyber insurance, it’s worth considering.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 9, 2018

For example, using a customer’s data to purchase goods from a merchant is different from using a customer’s data to identify a customer in a loyalty program or to provide health care services. For example, a national identity number of nine digits (123-45-6789) when tokenized (e.g. Example Use Cases. Encryption and Tokenization.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 14, 2022

In a BNB Chain blog post in early October, the authors announced that about two million BNB crypto tokens were stolen. Here’s a look at some recent examples: Axie Infinity: Sky Mavis, which is based in Singapore, is the developer of this play-to-earn online game. It was over a whopping $560 million. At the time, the BNB Chain had $5.45

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

One such example is the recent disclosure that military personnel wearing Strava devices are revealing highly sensitive information about their locations and activities. For example, are they encrypting their data? For more information about keeping data secure, please visit our data encryption landing page.

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IT Governance

APRIL 11, 2023

For instance, it could monitor users’ keystrokes or encrypt the user’s files in a ransomware attack. The increase in nation-state attacks and major incidents overall continues to apply pressure to drive visibility of an organization’s security program by boards, corporate executives and cyber insurers,” Dudley said.

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IT Governance

MAY 3, 2019

For example, you might address the risk of a work-issued laptop being stolen by creating a policy that instructs employees to keep devices with them and to store them safely. For example, if you’re not willing to take any chances of a laptop being stolen, you might choose to ban employees from using them outside the premises.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 6, 2018

The controls used are typically full disk encryption (FDE), KMIP key management of encryption for arrays or SAN systems or encryption of a tape or a VM image. For laptops and transportable physical media (like tapes), this level of encryption is a great control.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

To highlight the importance and usefulness of the Cyber Essentials scheme, we’ve produced a series of blog posts summarising each of the five security controls that, according to the UK government, could prevent “around 80% of cyber attacks”. This blog covers access controls. Reduce cyber insurance premiums.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 19, 2023

This blog post explores the DevSecOps best practices that development teams can use to ensure that security is ingrained in the development process, leading to better products with reduced security risks and faster time-to-market. For example, let's say a team is using a popular open-source library in their application.

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Hunton Privacy

MAY 16, 2017

The ransomware, known as “WannaCry,” leverages a Windows vulnerability and encrypts files on infected systems and demands payment for their release. Affected entities also may face lawsuits from their business partners whose data is involved in the attack, and often battle insurers over coverage of costs associated with the attack.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 7, 2020

For example, the browser that the login apparently came from is “chrome” with a lowercase C. The symbol simply signifies that the site has an SSL certificate, which means the information shared between your computer and the website is encrypted. However, a closer look at the way the email is written reveals that it’s a scam.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 7, 2023

An example of the importance of data privacy is in the healthcare industry, where it’s critical to protect confidential patient information for patient trust and comply with regulations. Put into place data protection tools such as data encryption algorithms, key management, redaction, data masking and erasure, and data resiliency.

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IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2023

MCNA Insurance MCNA Insurance, also known as MCNA Dental, was caught up in a cyber hacking incident last week, in which 112 covered entities were affected. MCNA Insurance later confirmed that 8,923,662 people were affected in the incident and said the breach was a result of a ransomware attack.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 5, 2018

Key Findings from the 2018 Global Encryption Trends Study. No core technologies are more fundamental to data protection than encryption and key management. We’ve just released the results from our Global Encryption Trends Study which once again show positive growth in the use of encryption across a wide variety of use cases.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 24, 2023

GDPR and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) are just two very public representations of data protection, and we are seeing increased policy discussions around access to data in social media applications like Tik Tok. The problem with encryption, though, is that it requires human cooperation.

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Data Matters

MAY 9, 2019

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) held its Spring 2019 National Meeting (Spring Meeting) in Orlando, Florida, from April 6 to 9, 2019. ceding insurer could be eligible for the same reduced collateral requirements that would apply to qualifying EU reinsurers under the revised CFR Model Laws.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 27, 2019

For example, customers might want to change passwords for other sites or check their bank account for signs of fraud. This meant they weren’t encrypted, making them freely accessible to as many as 20,000 employees, most of whom had no legitimate reason to access the information.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Ransomware is a specific type of malware that encrypts computer files, essentially locking the owner out of their systems. Unlike an attack on retailers, for example, victims have no alternative when systems are down. What is ransomware? Over that six-month period, local government experienced 263 million attacks.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 30, 2018

This is part of the opening monologue of the Ozark series and when I first heard it, I immediately stopped the show and dropped it into this blog post. For example, the ICT industry (Information, Communication, Technology) was the 5th highest paying with an average salary of $104,874 (dollars are Aussie, take off about 30% for USD).

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

For example, Microsoft failed to renew secure.microsoft.co.uk There are many, many more examples and they all adhere to the same underlying truth; if something is important and repetitive, automate it! DV is easy and indeed automation is a cornerstone of Let's Encrypt which is a really important attribute of it. back in 2001.

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Data Matters

APRIL 23, 2018

Encrypting critical data assets. Board-management discussions about cyber risk should include identification of which risks to avoid, which to accept, and which to mitigate or transfer through insurance, as well as specific plans associated with each approach. Creating an enterprise-wide governance structure. Principle 5.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Cyber insurance will become more popular and more comprehensive. It’s led to a growing trend for organisations to purchase cyber insurance, which Forbes contributor Emil Sayegh believes will continue in 2022. This market squeeze will certainly affect the cyber insurance industry itself. “We

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 4, 2022

27, a Ukrainian cybersecurity researcher who is currently in Ukraine leaked almost two years’ worth of internal chat records from Conti, which had just posted a press release to its victim shaming blog saying it fully supported Russia’s invasion of his country. “They are insured for cyber risks, so what are we waiting for?

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Uber is a prime example of an Internet-centric enterprise comprised of a collection of tools and services hosted by myriad partners. The good news is that an unparalleled acceleration of research has commenced in next-gen network architectures, including distributed databases, advanced encryption, datafication and artificial intelligence.

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Data Matters

JUNE 26, 2018

The CCPA also exempts data covered by Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and consumer report data governed by the Fair Credit Reporting Act. For example, if geolocation data shows that a consumer regularly visits a particular place of business, it may be inferred that the consumer is a patron of such a business.

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