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Data privacy examples

IBM Big Data Hub

These are just some examples of how organizations support data privacy , the principle that people should have control of their personal data, including who can see it, who can collect it, and how it can be used. For example, they can decline to have their data shared with third parties while allowing the app to generate personalized offers.

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So You Think You Are Protected With Cloud Native Encryption?

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

So You Think You Are Protected With Cloud Native Encryption? Segregation of duties applies also to how you handle encryption and cryptographic key management for protecting your sensitive data stored in cloud storage such as the Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes. Understanding encryption in Amazon EBS.

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The value of Key Rotation and Re-encryption.

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

The value of Key Rotation and Re-encryption. To meet various compliance requirements and reduce the risk of your most sensitive data getting compromised you may want to consider changing the encryption key used to protect this data. Thales refers to this changing of encryption keys as “Key rotation” or “Rekey”. Re-encryption.

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GUEST ESSAY: The key differences between ‘information privacy’ vs. ‘information security’

The Last Watchdog

Here are a few examples of demographic data that in combination with sensitive data makes it Personally Identifiable Information (PII). The same would be true of the prices of your products for sale on Amazon, or your own website. Ransomware uses encryption (typically a good thing) to make your business information un-available.

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Inside the Massive Alleged AT&T Data Breach

Troy Hunt

Except that rather than put it up for sale, someone has decided to just dump it all publicly and make it easily accessible to the masses. The Dropbox and LinkedIn breaches, for example, occurred in 2012 before being broadly distributed in 2016 and just like those incidents, the alleged AT&T data is now in very broad circulation.

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Info stealers and how to protect against them

Security Affairs

For example, some may target login credentials, while others may focus on financial data or intellectual property. Some info stealers may use encryption techniques to hide their communication with command-and-control servers, making it more challenging for security systems to detect malicious activities.

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GUEST ESSAY: Threat hunters adapt personas, leverage AI to gather intel in the Dark Web

The Last Watchdog

It extends beyond the Deep & Dark Web to: unindexed Web forums, messaging boards, and marketplaces, encrypted messaging systems, and code repositories. Once vetted and accepted, threat hunters will go into these message boards and communities and search for anything connected to your business, for example: •Corporate login credentials.