Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 28, 2018

Cloud providers have done a good job of integrating default encryption services within their core infrastructure. However, as discussed in previous blogs , the encryption service is only as secure as the keys that are used to encrypt the data. Which data within cloud workloads is encrypted. Key access information.

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Data Protection Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Noticeably, covered entities are now subject to new requirements imposing heightened responsibilities on Chief Information Security Officers (“CISOs”) and more specific and prescriptive requirements in relation to governance, risk assessments, and notifications to the NYDFS. c)) regardless of the impact of the underlying cybersecurity event.

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Data Matters

JUNE 23, 2022

The laws also require notice of certain cybersecurity events to relevant state insurance commissioners within three business days of a determination that a cybersecurity event has occurred. The new Kentucky law takes effect on January 1, 2023.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Data encryption : Some threat actors encrypt files to help prevent access to critical evidence for an investigation. For example, if an organisation has implemented on-site virtual servers, a threat actor may encrypt the entire virtual machine to mask what actions they took within the environment.

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Encryption Compliance Phishing Risk 82

Hunton Privacy

JULY 1, 2022

(“Carnival”), the world’s largest cruise-ship operator, for violations of the Cybersecurity Regulation (23 NYCRR Part 500) in connection with four cybersecurity events between 2019 and 2021, including two ransomware events. .

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Data Protection Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

NYDFS retained the broader term “cybersecurity event” that it uses in several sections of the regulation, but, with respect to notifications to NYDFS (§ 500.17(a)), a)), this new term applies. The two definitions from Section 500.1 The two definitions from Section 500.1 NYDFS stated: The Department has revised the language of § 500.17(a)

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2022

The list of victims includes manufacturing organizations, banks, schools, and event and meeting planning companies. The Holy Ghost ransomware appends the file extension.h0lyenc to filenames of encrypted files. The first possibility is that the North Korean government sponsors this activity.” ” concludes Microsoft.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 2, 2019

Furthermore, ProtonMail’s end-to-end encryption means we cannot be forced by a court to provide unencrypted message contents.” The company clarified that it does not agree with the interpretation taken by some branches of the Swiss government. “ ProtonMail does not voluntarily offer assistance as alleged.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Secure remote working tips and VPN insights from our senior penetration tester Leon Teale is a senior penetration tester at IT Governance. In addition, Leon has won hackathon events in the UK and internationally, and is accredited for multiple bug bounties. Ensure full-disk encryption, especially for laptops and other portable devices.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Although specifically tailored for the financial services sector, its revelations have profound implications for the retail domain, especially during high-stake events like Black Friday. Today, using Point-to-Point Encryption (P2PE) isn't just a luxury; it's a necessity. Governments: Look to global benchmarks.

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Retail Cybersecurity Financial Services Encryption 83

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Tyler Technologies has finally decided to paid a ransom to obtain a decryption key and recover files encrypted in a recent ransomware attack. According to BleepingComputer, which cited a source informed on the event, Tyler Technologies paid a ransom of an unspecified amount to receive the decryption key and recover encrypted files.

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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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Encryption Data Privacy Compliance Cloud 71

The Last Watchdog

APRIL 5, 2022

The Chinese government is well known for its censorship– and frequent harassment and intimidation of foreign journalists. ’ This firewall even goes as far as to block the latest versions of the encryption service TLS (v1.3) Related: How China challenged Google in Operation Aurora. MFA, however useful, is no silver bullet.

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Passwords Access Cloud Government 219

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 15, 2021

” Attackers designed the Owowa module to inspect HTTP requests and responses by hooking the PreSendRequestContent event. . Then the result of the command is encrypted and returned to the operator. Most of the victims were government organizations in Malaysia, Mongolia, Indonesia, and the Philippines.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 19, 2022

The malware exfiltrates data before encrypting the targeted devices to provide additional means of extortion. lilith” extension to rename encrypted files. Besides, the files are encrypted using local Windows cryptographic APIs and random keys generated on the fly. The malware uses a custom “.lilith”

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Ransomware Encryption File names Government 111

eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Data Encryption Public cloud providers implement strong encryption mechanisms to protect data at rest, and users should enable encryption for data in transit as well. Data encryption in transit guarantees that information stays private while being sent across networks.

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Cloud Security Encryption Compliance 87

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Historically, October has always been an important month for the cybersecurity community and a month of major cybersecurity events. Read the full 2022 Thales Consumer Trust Index and find out more about events around Cybersecurity Awareness Month. October is for the cybersecurity world what Oktoberfest is for beer lovers.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 24, 2024

Leon Teale is a senior penetration tester at IT Governance with more than ten years’ experience performing penetration tests for clients in various industries all over the world. Leon has also won hackathon events in the UK and internationally, and is accredited for multiple bug bounties. Presumably, this isn’t a coincidence?

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

The malicious software encrypts victims’ systems and forces them to pay money in return for the safe return of the data. Ransomware is a type of cyber attack in which criminal hackers plant malicious code on the victim’s systems, which cripples services and encrypts files. Then came the rise in ransomware.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

One of the first post-pandemic large-scale, in-person events recently took place in Dubai. This included presentations by Ministers and Heads of Government, who shared information about innovation in their countries, YouthX, which brought together young innovators, and the leaders of more than 40 women-led startups.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

DBS is a joint venture by the Seychelles government and some shareholders including Bank, Caisse Francaise de Cooperation, European Investment Bank, DEG, Standard Chartered Bank, and Barclays Bank. . DBS bought back Barclays’ share and Government purchased the shares of DEG, hence, increasing its shareholding to 60.50%.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 21, 2021

TLS certificates are a key component of all of this frenetic activity; they are part of the Public Key Infrastructure, or PKI, the system for authenticating and encrypting all human-to-machine and machine-to-machine connections. It’s not just a matter of dealing with the sheer volume of certificates.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

Chatting with Snowden on an encrypted IM connection, I joked that the NSA cafeteria menu probably has code names for menu items. You read so much classified information about the world’s geopolitical events that you start seeing the world differently. Transferring files electronically is what encryption is for. Probably not.

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Computer and Electronics Encryption Government Privacy 116

eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

Cyber criminals may damage, destroy, steal, encrypt, expose, or leak data as well as cause harm to a system. Encrypted threats spiked 167%, ransomware increased 105%, and 5.4 In May, cybersecurity researchers revealed that ransomware attacks are increasing their aggressive approach by destroying data instead of encrypting it.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The ability of Quantum computers to break these safeguards quickly and easily is the key reason governments and regulatory bodies have been taking action for years to prepare new Quantum-safe algorithms that will update these safeguards to keep these ongoing protections. This is especially true with any data with a long secrecy lifetime.

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Encryption Risk Government Security 77

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

NIS2 broadens the scope of NIS by adding new industries, such as telecommunications, postal services, social media platforms, and public administration, which includes state and provincial government agencies. The use of cryptography and encryption. the use of cryptography and encryption” [Article 18(2g)]. What does that mean?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 18, 2022

However, the event will also be online for those who cannot be there in person. At the same time, the regulatory and legislative landscape is expanding, with governments and transnational organizations adopting a multitude of acts and laws to protect their critical infrastructures from being the next victim of a sophisticated attack.

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Cloud Digital transformation Encryption IoT 71

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. Advance Trust with Awareness and Culture.

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Encryption Cybersecurity Cloud Artificial Intelligence 71

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 30, 2022

However, there is no doubt that these events have eroded consumer confidence. When we spoke, Carsten pointed out that trust directly correlates to breaches, reasoning that if an organization has strong data protection and privacy practices, they should be less susceptible to security events: hence, increased trust.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 12, 2019

Encryption, encryption, encryption. Encryption is one clear example of how organisations can be doing more with those fundamentals: as this recap of the event highlights, encryption remains core to building cyber-resilience and a core weakness in cyber-security efforts across the board. The GDPR effect.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

See the top Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) tools. Vinson & Elkins also provide examples of material events such as: Violated security or procedures that create a liability Incidents significantly affecting company reputation or financial position Incidents affecting company operations significantly.

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Collibra

JANUARY 14, 2021

It is a global event to remind us of our responsibilities as consumers and organizations to be aware of how we share, store and protect personal information. In this blog post, we’ll outline the steps it takes to get an enterprise data protection program going by leveraging core data governance principles. Assign compliance controls.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

The country’s Protection of Personal Information (POPI) Act imposes requirements on holders of personal data to guard against unauthorised access and, in the event of a breach, mandates that the organisation notify the Regulator and the impacted data subjects. Encrypt Everything.

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Encryption e-Discovery Personal data Risk 66

Security Affairs

JULY 23, 2021

There was no need for a password or login credentials to access this information, and the data was not encrypted. Among these, 28 appeared to be properly configured (meaning they weren’t accessible), and 86 were accessible without any password nor encryption. What’s Happening? Sensitive information redacted.

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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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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Swiss authorities are investigating into allegations the company Crypto AG, a Switzerland-based maker of encryption devices, was a front company for the CIA and German intelligence. The events under discussion date back to 1945 and are difficult to reconstruct and interpret in the present-day context,”. That’s not credible,” he said.

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Security Affairs

MAY 28, 2021

According to coordinated reports published by FireEye and Pulse Secure in April, the two hacking groups have exploited the CVE-2021-22893 zero-day vulnerability in Pulse Secure VPN devices to access the networks of US defense contractors and government organizations worldwide. and Europe.”

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