The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2023

Government Accountability Office in 2020 about increasing risk due to connected aircraft technology developments. So watch out for weak encryption protocols, insufficient network segregation, or insecure user authentication mechanisms. There was another warning from the U.S.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

By strategically combining technology in these areas, organizations can enhance their ability to embed security, drive risk mitigation, enable continuous monitoring, ensure adaptive business continuity, foster interoperability, and streamline governance.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Enterprises understand that without a well-crafted sovereignty and compliance strategy, they will struggle to unlock the true value of SaaS and the cloud in their operational jurisdictions. This is not due to being reluctant to promote cloud-first strategies, but due to factors such as a lack of interoperability with legacy apps.

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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 14, 2023

A cybersecurity strategy is not solely about managing risk across a business’ IT infrastructure. It also offers the industry’s only Keep Your Own Key (KYOK) for data encryption at rest. Consequently, these data breaches can rattle customer trust and the confidence of regulators. 

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IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Addressing the evolving regulatory landscape In response to the evolving regulatory landscape, government agencies have imposed stringent requirements on data retention. In the absence of a robust data backup and protection strategy, businesses leave their valuable data vulnerable to cyber threats.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 10, 2022

We live in a digital world in which we engage with significant social, government, retail, business and entertainment services now delivered without any direct human service management. The report provides novel and important insights for businesses, governments, academics and citizens. Governments need to take action.

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IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 24, 2024

The app heavily encrypts all user financial data. Deploying privacy protections: The app uses encryption to protect data from cybercriminals and other prying eyes. The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) Canada’s PIPEDA governs how private-sector businesses collect and use consumer data.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 9, 2024

Empowering your hybrid cloud strategy A pivotal aspect of modern IT environments blends the cost-efficiency, scalability, privacy and dependability advantages of both private and public clouds. According to IDC, 78% of IT organizations agree that XaaS offerings are a key part of their future strategy.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 1, 2019

While many state and government officials are under no illusion that they are safe from a digital attack, concern should run deeper than election integrity. These vulnerabilities can span from limited use of data encryption to the abuse of privileged user policies. The Future is Multi-cloud. Data Breaches aren’t Slowing Down.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 4, 2018

Thales eSecurity’s CTO Jon Geater and Peter Carlisle , Thales eSecurity’s VP of Sales, EMEA, were recently featured in major news outlets espousing their opinions about internet-connected devices and the new Cyber Security Export Strategy. Earlier this month, the UK government announced guidelines to make internet-connected devices safer.

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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In this blog, we will explore the concept of cyber resiliency from an IBM® perspective and how our approach can help organizations protect themselves in an ever-changing cybersecurity landscape. It recognizes that breaches are inevitable and places equal emphasis on prevention, detection, response and recovery.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 16, 2022

The emergence of ransomware groups targeting critical infrastructure such as healthcare facilities and energy organizations, as well as the rising trend of large-scale data breaches, is putting governments' capacity to defend citizens' lives, property, and well-being in jeopardy.

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Security Affairs

MAY 11, 2023

The agency urges organizations in the country to adopt a proper security posture, by implementing an efficient patch management strategy, enforcing managing system access, and encrypting sensitive data.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 12, 2019

As one of our recent blogs discussed, we are entering a new era of business – one that will see wholesale digital transformation drive a digital-first approach by businesses globally. Encryption, encryption, encryption. The financial and reputational damage could prove to be severe. The GDPR effect.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

This gives the perpetrator the access needed to launch the ransomware and lock the company out of its own infrastructure or encrypt files until the ransom is paid in cryptocurrency. They’re often state-sponsored entities, foreign governments, or actual businesses. Victims have two equally unattractive choices to resolve the situation.

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IT Governance

JULY 10, 2023

Overview IT Governance discovered 297 security incidents between April and June 2023, which accounted for 116,933,247 breached records. That’s often a deliberate strategy, because it doesn’t want to publicise its vulnerability – particularly if it’s still working on a solution.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 5, 2020

We’ve run through some of the essential steps in this blog, or download the full, free checklist from our website. The document should contain a thorough outline of each risk, the relevant control(s) and the organisation’s continual improvement strategy, including when and how they will review the effectiveness of the control.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Organizations admitted that on average, only about half (49%) of the data stored in the cloud is secured with encryption and only one-third (32%) believe protecting data in the cloud is their responsibility. Encrypting data in the cloud. Encrypting data in the cloud. When it comes to encryption keys, it is all about control.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Cybercriminals are becoming more creative as cybersecurity analysts adapt quickly to new ransomware strategies. They do this by encrypting the stolen data and forcing victims to pay for a decryption key on top of the ransom fee. Related: How training can mitigate targeted attacks. Double extortion is twice the ransom.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Other Iranian-based cyberattacks have included hackers targeting Albanian government systems and spear phishing scams. Smishing might impersonate the government, banks or other agencies to seem more legitimate. Encrypt all sensitive information and documentation. Steps to effective security.

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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 18, 2023

For organizations of all types—and especially those in highly regulated industries such as financial services, government, healthcare and telco—considerations including the rise of generative AI, evolving regulations and data sovereignty laws and ongoing security challenges must be top of mind.

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Collibra

JANUARY 23, 2023

Zero trust, a government wide initiative Zero-trust was originally introduced as a network-based architecture mode, which centralized on identity and multi-factor authentication. In fact, the US federal government has made it a mandate; it has been one year since the White House set forth its zero-trust strategy.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The costs of anti-virus software, staff awareness training, Cloud services and countless other resources stack up – and even then, you need to find skilled personnel to lead your security strategy, which is easier said than done. The post How to manage the growing costs of cyber security appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2022

SentinelOne documented a series of attacks aimed at government, education, and telecom entities in Southeast Asia and Australia carried out by a previously undocumented Chinese-speaking APT tracked as Aoqin Dragon. The APT primary focus on cyberespionage against targets in Australia, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Vietnam.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Here is Erin’s Q&A column, which originally went live on OneRep’s well-done blog.) For the first expert interview on our blog, we welcomed Pulitzer-winning investigative reporter Byron V. Erin: Do you think cyber insurance should play a bigger role in companies’ cybersecurity strategies?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 15, 2022

The directive’s third section, entitled “Modernizing Federal Government Cybersecurity,” requires Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies to begin moving to a zero trust architecture (ZTA). It also asked for nearly $10 billion to go to civilian cybersecurity programs across the government, reported FedScoop. on improving U.S.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 13, 2021

The first mistake a lot of organizations make when planning their identity management strategy is not considering every identity on their network. Here are five tips for securely managing identities across the new, hybrid work environment: •Think granularly. Verify email.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 14, 2019

Digital transformation is driving IT modernization, IoT, and cloud migrations at a record pace in the federal government. The roundtable, including more than a dozen IT and cyber leaders from government and industry, explored the business drivers, challenges and evolving strategies around cybersecurity in government.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

It behooves companies, government agencies, nonprofits and other entities to understand what new requirements POPI imposes on them. Further, as governments continue to recognize the importance of data security, they enact regulations that may duplicate measures adopted by other government entities. Encrypt Everything.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 5, 2021

Two of the largest government security agencies are laying out the key cyberthreats to Kubernetes, the popular platform for orchestrating and managing containers, and ways to harden the open-source tool against attacks. ” Containers, Kubernetes Take Over. Further reading: Container & Kubernetes Security Best Practices.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 10, 2019

These security incidents prove that you must have the right controls in place from a security and governance perspective. Cloud computing represents one of the most valuable innovations in current IT and business strategies but continues to be misunderstood and underutilized. Bring Your Own Key to the Cloud.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

No matter the industry, without proper security standards from the federal government and leading industry bodies, organizations have no choice but to take IoT security into their own hands. Here are a few things organizations can do to ensure they have a safe and secure IoT strategy. Invest in the right technology.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Are your AI plans supported by an encryption strategy? The firm’s AI team says the software contains encryption. However, in this scenario where are the encryption keys? It’s important to understand that encryption will affect data in other related applications and processes as well. Are they encrypting it?

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IT Governance

APRIL 12, 2023

Overview IT Governance discovered 310 security incidents between January and March 2023, which accounted for 349,171,305 breached records. That’s often a deliberate strategy as it doesn’t want to publicise its vulnerability – particularly if it’s still working on a solution. This represents a 12.7%

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 23, 2019

But government bills and regulations can at best only mandate what organizations should be doing on their own to protect themselves and the people who depend on them. The post Protecting America’s Critical Infrastructure appeared first on Data Security Blog | Thales eSecurity. power grid in the case of an attack.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Quantum computers can launch attacks that break asymmetric cryptography, rendering the entire PKI-based encryption method obsolete. Therefore, governments and organizations, such as NIST, are racing to become cryptographically quantum resilient. Quantum-resistant Security?

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 19, 2023

By 2024, for instance, 75% of the entire world’s population will have its personal data protected by encryption, multifactor authentication, masking and erasure, as well as data resilience. The key to differentiation comes in getting data protection right, as part of an overall data strategy.

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