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Mitigating Ransomware Attacks – Decoupling Encryption Keys From Encrypted Data

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Mitigating Ransomware Attacks – Decoupling Encryption Keys From Encrypted Data. Once the hackers gain an inside entry in an organisation’s IT systems, they deploy a file-encrypting malware known as ransomware. Some ransomware selectively seeks out sensitive data and will only encrypt those files. Wed, 11/25/2020 - 05:55.

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Don’t Wanna Pay Ransom Gangs? Test Your Backups.

Krebs on Security

” Wosar said the next most-common scenario involves victims that have off-site, encrypted backups of their data but discover that the digital key needed to decrypt their backups was stored on the same local file-sharing network that got encrypted by the ransomware. That’s why tabletop exercises are incredibly important.

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The Evolving Cybersecurity Threats to Critical National Infrastructure

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

For example, #CybersecurityAwarenessMonth, celebrating its 20th anniversary this October, aims to empower people and organizations across every sector to protect critical assets against cybercrime. For example, 37% of the Thales survey respondents are not confident they know where their sensitive data is stored. And only a mere 2.6%

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Application modernization overview

IBM Big Data Hub

Many are addressing this via building accelerators that could be customized for enterprise consumption that helps accelerate specific areas of modernization and one such example from IBM is IBM Consulting Cloud Accelerators. We will explore key areas of acceleration with an example in this article.

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German DPA Issues Guidance on Data Transfers Following Schrems II

Hunton Privacy

data controllers should seek to provide additional safeguards to mitigate risks, in particular (1) encryption for which “only the data exporter has the key” and which “cannot be broken by U.S. A summary of the key points of the Baden-Württemberg guidance is set out below. Assessment of Data Transfers. For data transfers to the U.S.,

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Understanding HIPAA: A Guide to Avoiding Common Violations

Armstrong Archives

For example, imagine a hospital employee accidentally shares a patient’s medical records with someone who shouldn’t have seen them. To prevent something like this from happening, it always helps to check the access logs and exercise control over who can view sensitive information like this.

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How to implement the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

IBM Big Data Hub

For example, a business that collects user health data needs stronger protections than one that collects only email addresses. While the GDPR offers a few examples—using new technologies, large-scale processing of sensitive data—it does not exhaustively list every high-risk activity.

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