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How ‘digital transformation’ gave birth to a new breed of criminal: ‘machine-identity thieves’

The Last Watchdog

If you haven’t heard, we are undergoing “digital transformation.” Digital advances are coming at us fast and furious. Hackers are stealing machine identities, and using them in attacks, and it’s happening more and more,” says Jeff Hudson, CEO of security supplier Venafi. Security responsibilities.

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Fuel digital transformation with data security and data privacy

Collibra

But the general public is not the only ones concerned about data security. Data security and privacy professionals are also fearful about protecting sensitive information within their organization. . Many businesses are using this time to optimize their data and technology investments. Data breaches.

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Digital transformation escalates compliance challenges

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Digital transformation is changing the face of the modern data-driven enterprise. The 2019 Thales Data Threat Report-Global Edition found that 97% of organizations surveyed are implementing digital transformation with 37% reporting aggressive transformation. And that’s not all.

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Think differently about data privacy to deliver digital transformation

Collibra

This is the road to digital transformation. Digital transformation requires trust. Trust is the foundation of any customer-centric approach for data privacy – the organization needs to be trusted to obtain, store and use personal data in a secure, compliant and ethical manner.

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Organizations Struggle with Cloud Security in the Post Digital Transformation Era – Highlights from our 2020 Data Threat Report-Global Edition

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

2020 marks the launch of the Thales Data Threat Report-Global Edition for the seventh consecutive year. This year the report focuses on the post digital transformation era. Whatever the nature of the data stored in the cloud, it needs to be secured. Sage advice: encrypt everything.

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Making the Case for Encryption in the Era of Digital Transformation – Highlights from our Annual Data Threat Report

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Around this time each year, Thales eSecurity releases our annual Data Threat Report (DTR). Now in its sixth year, the report is squarely focused on digital transformation and what that means for organizations and their data security. In fact, 71% of organizations are using sensitive data in the cloud.

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SHARING INTEL: Here’s why it has become so vital to prioritize the security-proofing of APIs

The Last Watchdog

Yet, in bringing us here, APIs have also spawned a vast new tier of security holes. Yet, API security risks haven’t gotten the attention they deserve. It has become clear that API security needs to be prioritized as companies strive to mitigate modern-day cyber exposures. Thus security-proofing APIs has become a huge challenge.

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