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Data Privacy and Security: It Takes Two to Tango

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

The goal of Data Privacy Week, celebrated between January 24 – 28, is to spread awareness about online privacy and educate citizens on how to manage their personal information and keep it secure. The IBM Cost of Data Breach 2021 report indicates that data breaches have become more expensive by 10% compared to 2020, amounting to $4.24

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How To Keep Cybersecure Over the Holidays

Adam Levin

The incidence of ransomware attacks has continued to climb, over 700% by some estimates in 2020 in comparison to 2019, with phishing emails being the primary vector. A recent survey , commissioned by Cyberscout and conducted online by The Harris Poll among over 2,000 U.S. Use end-to-end encryption.

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MFA Advantages and Weaknesses

eSecurity Planet

LastPass surveys estimate that 44% of users use the same or similar password, despite knowing it represents a security risk. Nearly 60% of data breaches in 2020 involved reused passwords, and this number increased to 76% for breaches for employees of the Fortune 1000. SpyCloud observations found that this reuse tends to be exploited.

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2024 State of Cybersecurity: Reports of More Threats & Prioritization Issues

eSecurity Planet

The 2023 vendor surveys arriving this quarter paint a picture of a cybersecurity landscape under attack, with priority issues affecting deployment, alert response, and exposed vulnerabilities. 553% increase in DNS Flood attacks from 1H 2020 to 2H 2023. 20,551 gambling industry attacks.

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Nation-State-Sponsored Attacks: Not Your Grandfather’s Cyber Attacks

Data Matters

For example: On May 12, 2021, President Biden signed an Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity. 26,633 (May 12, 2021). At the end of 2021, DDoS attacks had grown more than 24%, while the total number of smart attacks (advanced, often targeted, DDoS attacks) had increased by 31% when compared to the same period in 2020.