Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The IBM 2023 Cost of a Data Breach Report , for example, highlights the continuous financial burden on retailers, which, coupled with potential reputational damage, emphasizes the dire need for retailers to prioritize and bolster their cybersecurity measures. Today, using Point-to-Point Encryption (P2PE) isn't just a luxury; it's a necessity.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 3, 2024

This transformation presents both opportunities and challenges for business executives. Enterprises in these regions will adopt advanced data encryption techniques, like bring-your-own-key (BYOK) and hold-your-own-key (HYOK) systems, to meet growing demands for data sovereignty.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 21, 2021

However according to Cybersecurity Challenges of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Past, Present & Future , “The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia averagely faces 160,000 cyberattacks daily.” Consider, for example, the shift to cloud computing and the recent rise in working remotely driven by the COVID-19 pandemic. Resilience.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The simplest example may be insurance. Also read : Top Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) Tools for 2022. Once data is mapped, organizations make better decisions on how that data is governed and reduce their risk footprint. Advanced Encryption. Risk Management Process. Enhancing Risk Management.

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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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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 21, 2021

Governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) software helps businesses manage all of the necessary documentation and processes for ensuring maximum productivity and preparedness. Third-party governance. IT governance and security. Privacy governance and management. Enterprise & operational risk management. Audit management.

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Compliance Risk Government Retail 57

Schneier on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

I paged through weekly reports, presentation slides from status meetings, and general briefings to educate visitors. The meeting presenters try to spice things up. Presentations regularly include intelligence success stories. Neither were any of the algorithm names I knew, not even algorithms I knew that the US government used.

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Computer and Electronics Encryption Government Privacy 121

eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Secret Service issued a detailed advisory on the BlackByte Ransomware as a Service (RaaS) group, which has attacked critical infrastructure industries in recent months, among them government, financial and food and agriculture targets. “In cases where decryption is not possible, some data recovery can occur.”

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Data Matters

OCTOBER 6, 2022

While the Guidance sets out many different kinds of PETs, we list below three key technologies and how a business could use them to support data protection: Homomorphic Encryption (“HE”) – this allows you to perform computations on encrypted data without first decrypting it. How can PETs be used in a GDPR compliant way?

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The government agencies have observed an increase in ransomware attacks occurring on holidays and weekends, the choice of these period is motivated by the lower level of defense due to the reduced presence of the personnel. The FBI and CISA warn organizations to keep high their defenses against ransomware attacks during weekends or holidays.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 15, 2021

They are present in every organization in varying capacities and functions. Yes, and Ellen uses the example of a retail grocery store to effectively demonstrate the point. The rise of IoT has not gone unnoticed in government circles. Encryption Key Management. To hear more, tune into the podcast. Data security.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2020

One of the examples relates to the default settings users get when starting to use a new service. While the cybersecurity industry has presented options for every netizen, the recommendation to use original and complex passwords continues to be disregarded. Improper encryption. The threat arises when people refuse to update.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 21, 2021

According to the 2020 Trustwave Global Security Report , the majority of data breaches involving cardholder data were CNP (card-not-present) attacks. For example, the bank might increase its transaction fees or terminate the relationship with the merchant altogether. How do I achieve PCI DSS compliance? Get started with the PCI DSS.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 22, 2024

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a European Union (EU) law that governs how organizations collect and use personal data. Schools, hospitals and government agencies all fall under GDPR authority. Returning to a previous example, a company collecting phone numbers for marketing purposes would be a controller.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 17, 2019

Related: Why government encryption backdoors should never be normalized. A vendor offering to issue certificates from reputable Certificate Authorities (CAs), along with forged company documentation, as part of a package of services enabling an attacker to credibly present themselves as a trusted U.S.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Affecting big companies and small in virtually every vertical and hitting government institutions at the local, state and federal level, sensitive data is routinely exfiltrated, stolen and leveraged with shocking regularity. They are ever-present, thus unfortunately becoming background noise. Is Ignorance Bliss?

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

All of your files are encrypted with RSA-2048 and AES-128 ciphers.” ” Or you might see a readme.txt stating, “Your files have been replaced by these encrypted containers and aren’t accessible; you will lose your files on [enter date] unless you pay $2500 in Bitcoin.” Screenshot example. Statistics.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 25, 2022

Encryption and the development of cryptography have been a cornerstone of IT security for decades and remain critical for data protection against evolving threats. While cryptology is thousands of years old, modern cryptography took off in the 1970s with the help of the Diffie-Hellman-Merkle and RSA encryption algorithms.

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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Rapidly deploying applications to cloud requires not just development acceleration with continuous integration, deployment and testing (CI/CD/CT), It also requires supply chain lifecycle acceleration, which involves multiple other groups such as governance risk and compliance (GRC), change management, operations, resiliency and reliability.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Annex 2 to the Recommendations provides a number of use cases providing examples of the technical, organisational and contractual measures that may be adopted to provide ‘supplementary measures’ where the third country does not provide sufficient guarantees within its legal framework. in plain text/ pseudonymised or encrypted etc.);

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2018

The analyzed email presented two attachments to the victim: A company profile, aiming to present the company who was asking for spare parts. At a first sight, the office document had an encrypted content available on OleObj.1 And why the attacker used an encrypted payload if the victim cannot open it? 1 and OleObj.2.

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Data Protection Report

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Examples of Problematic Uses of Trackers. HHS provided some examples of PHI that could be collected by trackers: email address, dates of appointments, IP address, geographic location, medical device IDs, or any unique identifying code. For example, some covered entities permit users to login from the public homepage.

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ARMA International

JULY 17, 2023

Given this backdrop of permanently increased matter mobility, what then are the issues and the key governance considerations that firms should pay attention to? Electronic material needs to be encrypted and uploaded to a place where it can be securely downloaded by the onboarding firm.

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Data Protection Report

MAY 4, 2020

Following the example of many European countries, the French government plans to introduce a contact tracing app, known as “StopCovid”. In a decision published on 24 April 2020 , the CNIL assessed the project as presented by INRIA in mid-April (the project is likely to evolve) from a data protection law perspective.

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IT Governance

JULY 15, 2019

With the ever-present danger of data breaches and cyber attacks, organisations must be sure that they have the financial backing to respond appropriately. For example, laptops can be stolen, documents can be misplaced and email accounts can be compromised. Cyber insurance is big business these days.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

For example, they can use AI to look for unusual security events and find those needles in a haystack faster. It presents yet another data landscape or kingdom that enterprises have to manage and secure. They’re both right. Strengthening Digital Security. They can also use AI to detect malware and more. This is the missing piece.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 4, 2021

Take for example, if you are asked to calculate the factors of the current year “2021”, you may do this by dividing 2021 with 2, then 3, … until you reach the number 43, which gives you the result of 43 x 47 = 2021. Government and defense sectors should be most alarmed by the threat. Conclusions: Preparedness is the key.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Paula Januszkiewicz, from Cqure , joins The Hacker Mind to discuss her two presentations at SecTor 2021 on digital forensics. Well, you just want to investigate what has happened so that may for example involve an employee that is in some kind of a way misbehaving, but it's its default role it's of course focusing on the attack.

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IT Governance

MARCH 6, 2019

For example, the Standard includes several controls relating to data encryption, which is one of the most effective ways of securing information and protecting its confidentiality, integrity and availability. Common methods focus on looking at risks to specific assets or risks presented in specific scenarios. Risk management.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 19, 2018

This year, there were over 3,000 attendees, 120 analyst sessions to choose from, and 200 vendors that were on the show floor and delivering presentations. Another example of back to the basics was how Gartner Research Directors Gorka Sadowski and Pete Shoard took us through the State of the Threat Landscape, 2018 (see chart below).

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IT Governance

JANUARY 7, 2020

In our first review of 2020, we look at a new twist on a PayPal scam, and discuss data breaches at an IVF treatment facility and in the Singapore government. For example, the browser that the login apparently came from is “chrome” with a lowercase C. Latest PayPal phishing scam goes for more than just your login details.

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IT Governance

MARCH 1, 2019

For example, you might prefer to schedule the test outside of office hours to minimise the disruption to the networks or applications that are being tested. These merchants may handle either card-present or card-not-present transactions. SAQ P2PE : For merchants that use point-to-point encryption.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 12, 2018

The rapid adoption has been driven by a combination of ever more visible browser warnings (it was Chrome and Firefox's changes which prompted the aforementioned tipping point post), more easily accessible certificates via both Let's Encrypt and Cloudflare and a growing awareness of the risks that unencrypted traffic presents.

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Data Protection Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The FTC’s complaint states: “From 2016 to the present, about 100 million unique devices sent Respondent location data each year.” (Complaint ¶ 5 (emphasis in original)) InMarket would share advertising revenue with developers that incorporated the InMarket SDK into their apps.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 15, 2019

For example, data collected by an entity may not be associated with an individual but could identify a household. Under the CCPA publicly available information is defined as “lawfully made available from federal, state, or local government records, if any conditions associated with such information.”.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 13, 2019

For example, it could allow users to turn off individually targeted news and advertising. There have been numerous examples of attackers targeting cloud service platforms to gain access to user data. On the other hand, WhatsApp -- purchased by Facebook in 2014 -- provides users with end-to-end encrypted messaging.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 21, 2021

Governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) software helps businesses manage all of the necessary documentation and processes for ensuring maximum productivity and preparedness. Third-party governance. IT governance and security. Privacy governance and management. Enterprise & operational risk management. Audit management.

Compliance 67

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