eSecurity Planet

JULY 26, 2022

Even the most advanced and sophisticated security tools are failing to protect against ransomware and data exfiltration, according to a new report from data encryption vendor Titaniam. The organizations affected had solid cybersecurity measures, but nonetheless experienced significant data security failures. The solution?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

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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Data Breach Today

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Government Can Force Technology Companies to Break Encryption Australia's Parliament has passed new laws enabling it to compel technology companies to break their own encryption.

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Collibra

JUNE 23, 2023

Government agencies — from DC to Duluth, NYC to LA — are struggling. The ever-growing digitalization of our world has raised significant concerns about data privacy and security, particularly for agencies that manage and process sensitive and confidential information. There’s no going back.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 8, 2024

The Cybernews research team believes that the sensitive data was accessible for 15 months. Leaving these files open to anyone exposes critical data and provides threat actors with various attack options. MIM is a government body responsible for industry and mineral resources operations. What MIM data was exposed?

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erwin

APRIL 2, 2021

Organizations are managing more data than ever. With more companies increasingly migrating their data to the cloud to ensure availability and scalability, the risks associated with data management and protection also are growing. Data Security Starts with Data Governance. Who is authorized to use it and how?

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Gmail client-side encryption (CSE) is now available for Workspace Enterprise Plus, Education Plus, and Education Standard customers. Google announced that Gmail client-side encryption (CSE) is now available for all Google Workspace Enterprise Plus, Education Plus, and Education Standard customers. ” continues the announcement.

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Data Breach Today

JULY 5, 2019

The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report analyzes the debate over whether the government should require technology firms to use weak encryption for messaging applications. Plus, D-Link's proposed settlement with the FTC and a CISO's update on medical device security.

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 22, 2020

Technology Giant Didn't Want to 'Poke the Bear,' Sources Tell Reuters Apple previously scuttled plans add end-to-end encryption to iCloud backups, Reuters reports, noting that such a move would have complicated law enforcement investigations. government to stop vilifying strong encryption and technology giants who provide it.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 13, 2021

Data Encryption Shields the Energy Sector Against Emerging Threats. According to a Siemens/Ponemon report , in 2019, 56% of gas, wind, water and solar utilities around the world experienced at least one cyberattack that caused a shutdown or loss of operational data. Wed, 01/13/2021 - 09:42. Cybersecurity challenges.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 30, 2018

One sliver of the $90 billion, or so, companies are expected to spend this year on cybersecurity products and services is an estimated $85 million they will shell out for encrypted flash drives. We discussed why encrypted flash drives have become established as a must-have portable business tool in the digital age. Park: Exactly.

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Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Bill 'Poses a serious threat' to end-to-end encryption, Apple Says U.S. tech companies are stepping up warnings to British lawmakers over a government proposal they say will fatally weaken security and privacy protections for users.

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The Guardian Data Protection

JUNE 6, 2018

Security agencies would be given access to encrypted messaging apps under bid to ‘modernise’ laws Technology companies such as Facebook and Google would be forced to give Australian security agencies access to encrypted data under legislation to be introduced by the Turnbull government. Related: Encryption keeps us safe.

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 13, 2020

and some allied governments are continuing to pretend that criminals will get a free pass - and police won't be able to crack cases - so long as individuals and businesses have access to products and services that use strong encryption.

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erwin

MARCH 25, 2021

erwin recently hosted the second in its six-part webinar series on the practice of data governance and how to proactively deal with its complexities. Led by Frank Pörschmann of iDIGMA GmbH, an IT industry veteran and data governance strategist, the second webinar focused on “ The Value of Data Governance & How to Quantify It.”.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

All data remains subject to the laws and regulations of its home country, regardless of where it resides. Additionally, in highly regulated sectors such as finance or healthcare or state and local government entities, organizations need to meet additional compliance laws and mandates.

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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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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 1, 2021

Protecting Sensitive Data with Luna Key Broker for Microsoft Double Key Encryption. Today’s remote working environment relies heavily on the collaborative sharing of information, challenging organizations to maintain the security of confidential data and regulatory compliance while driving employee productivity.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 1, 2020

Related: What we’ve learned from the massive breach of Capitol At RSA 2020 , I learned about how one of the routine daily chores all large organizations perform — data governance — has started to emerge as something of a cybersecurity multiplier. The value of data connected to a live project is obvious.

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erwin

JULY 12, 2019

In light of recent, high-profile data breaches, it’s past-time we re-examined strategic data governance and its role in managing regulatory requirements. for alleged violations of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Govern PII “at rest”. Govern PII “in motion”. Complexity.

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Threatpost

JULY 27, 2020

government and tech companies continue to butt heads over the idea of encryption and what that means for law enforcement.

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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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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 24, 2021

The increasing mobility of data, as it ping-pongs between clouds, data centers and the edge, has made it an easier target of cybercrime groups, which has put a premium on the encryption of that data in recent years. The data is protected against cybercriminals as well as others who are not supposed to see it.

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The Guardian Data Protection

JUNE 13, 2021

Will Cathcart likens governments’ stance to insisting a 1984 telescreen be installed in every living room Government attacks on WhatsApp’s end-to-end encryption are akin to demands that an Orwellian telescreen be installed in every living room, the app’s head has said as it launches a major advertising campaign in defence of privacy.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

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. However, you would not be able to access the restaurants more sensitive data such as their financial, employee, or tax records. What are APIs?

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 12, 2024

Data loss prevention (DLP) best practices are principles that help prevent intentional or unintentional data erasure. By following these guidelines, organizations can reduce the detrimental impact of data loss and quickly resume operations after an incident. Proofpoint’s 2024 data loss landscape report reveals 84.7%

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2022

Regulatory compliance and data privacy issues have long been an IT security nightmare. And since the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) took effect May 25, 2018, IT compliance issues have been at the forefront of corporate concerns. GDPR-style data privacy laws came to the U.S. PIPL Raises the Bar – And the Stakes.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 27, 2018

The IEEE came out in favor of strong encryption: IEEE supports the use of unfettered strong encryption to protect confidentiality and integrity of data and communications. Governments have legitimate law enforcement and national security interests.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 23, 2020

All the sites eventually will use the HSTS protocol, which ensures that a users' connection to a website is encrypted and can protect against man-in-the middle attacks and cookie hijacking.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 23, 2020

This is new from Reuters: More than two years ago, Apple told the FBI that it planned to offer users end-to-end encryption when storing their phone data on iCloud, according to one current and three former FBI officials and one current and one former Apple employee. Reuters could not determine why exactly Apple dropped the plan.

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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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Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

After Arresting Phantom Secure CEO, Authorities Reportedly Saw Secrets for Sale The Canadian government has arrested a senior intelligence official on charges of working as a mole.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 21, 2020

federal government contends with a tidal wave of demands in the COVID-19 battle, agencies are pushed to unprecedented limits. government is excelling with digital transformation (DX) which is critical in this time of crisis as the cloud becomes a crucial dynamic with the world working remotely. As the U.S. Some good news: the U.S.

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The Guardian Data Protection

APRIL 25, 2020

But it’s an uphill battle due to a long history of secrecy and failures to live up to promises on security and privacy of Australians’ data. Only the health officers in your state will be able to access the unencrypted data. All the data will be deleted on the government’s server at the end of the pandemic.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Rebecca Krauthamer , Co-founder and CPO, QuSecure Krauthamer As new standards for quantum-resilient cryptography come into effect, many government agencies will move toward quantum-readiness. Cryptographic inventories need finalizing and quantum safe encryption needs to be adopted for sensitive communications and data.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 29, 2019

PerCSoft , a Wisconsin-based company that manages a remote data backup service relied upon by hundreds of dental offices across the country, is struggling to restore access to client systems after falling victim to a ransomware attack. Cloud data and backup services are a prime target of cybercriminals who deploy ransomware.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Six months since the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) came into force, pseudonymisation and data encryption remain the only technology measures specifically mentioned in the famously technology-agnostic Regulation. But what exactly is meant by ‘pseudonymisation’ and ‘encryption’? What is encryption?

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