eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 4, 2022

It’s been a couple of decades since data tapes delivered by trucks made encryption a standard enterprise cybersecurity practice. Yet even as technology has changed, sending and receiving data remains a major vulnerability, ensuring encryption’s place as a foundational security practice. What is Encryption?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

How encryption can help address Cloud misconfiguration. Cloud service providers (CSPs) try to make it simple and easy for their users to comply with data privacy regulations and mandates. Bring your own encryption (BYOE). Tue, 11/16/2021 - 06:15. And, even experts make mistakes.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2022

Regulatory compliance and data privacy issues have long been an IT security nightmare. GDPR, the EU’s flagship data privacy and “right to be forgotten” regulation, has made the stakes of a data breach higher than ever. GDPR-style data privacy laws came to the U.S. with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) effective Jan.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 26, 2022

Even the most advanced and sophisticated security tools are failing to protect against ransomware and data exfiltration, according to a new report from data encryption vendor Titaniam. Raman says the emerging technology of choice to defend against data exfiltration and extortion attacks is encryption-in-use.

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The Guardian Data Protection

JUNE 13, 2021

Will Cathcart likens governments’ stance to insisting a 1984 telescreen be installed in every living room Government attacks on WhatsApp’s end-to-end encryption are akin to demands that an Orwellian telescreen be installed in every living room, the app’s head has said as it launches a major advertising campaign in defence of privacy.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 24, 2021

The increasing mobility of data, as it ping-pongs between clouds, data centers and the edge, has made it an easier target of cybercrime groups, which has put a premium on the encryption of that data in recent years. Since then, interest in fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) has increased, largely paralleling the rise of cloud computing.

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erwin

APRIL 2, 2021

How can companies protect their enterprise data assets, while also ensuring their availability to stewards and consumers while minimizing costs and meeting data privacy requirements? Data Security Starts with Data Governance. Lack of a solid data governance foundation increases the risk of data-security incidents.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 24, 2018

One thing all of these incidents have in common is how accessible the leaked information was after the breaches themselves occurred, something that could have been avoided had the data been encrypted. For more information on the Privacy Amendment Act 2017, please visit our dedicated landing page.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Cross-Border Data Privacy and Security Concerns in the Dawn of Quantum Computing. New EU restrictions could force companies to change data transfer practices and adopt more advanced data encryption methods. Data privacy is not a check-the-box compliance or security item. Privacy Shield was unlawful.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

As a result, these enormous IT infrastructures are extremely challenging to govern and secure. Additionally, in some geographies Telecoms are tightly coupled with critical government infrastructure operations. Encryption ensures the data itself cannot be accessed, even if intercepted during a “Man-in-the-Middle” attack.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Tutanota , the popular free and open-source end-to-end encrypted email software, has been blocked by Russian authorities. The popular free and open-source end-to-end encrypted email service Tutanota has been blocked in Russia on Friday evening. The Russian government could also ban IT companies that will not comply with the same law.

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Adam Shostack

DECEMBER 11, 2019

UK, and Australia: Weak Encryption Puts Billions of Internet Users at Risk. In closely related news, nominations for the 2020 Caspar Bowden Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies are open. The Open Technology Institute has an Open Letter to Law Enforcement in the U.S., press release , letter.)

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Six months since the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) came into force, pseudonymisation and data encryption remain the only technology measures specifically mentioned in the famously technology-agnostic Regulation. But what exactly is meant by ‘pseudonymisation’ and ‘encryption’? To further protect data, we look to encryption.

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Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

As an overarching law in China with respect to data privacy, PIPL shares many similarities with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). If a company has already been GDPR compliant, its data privacy compliance system can basically work in China, while certain localizations are necessary in response to unique requirements under PIPL.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Rebecca Krauthamer , Co-founder and CPO, QuSecure Krauthamer As new standards for quantum-resilient cryptography come into effect, many government agencies will move toward quantum-readiness. Cryptographic inventories need finalizing and quantum safe encryption needs to be adopted for sensitive communications and data.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 1, 2021

Protecting Sensitive Data with Luna Key Broker for Microsoft Double Key Encryption. Thales has integrated its Luna HSMs with DKE for Microsoft 365, which work together to enable organizations to protect their most sensitive data while maintaining full control of their encryption keys. Thu, 04/01/2021 - 14:04.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 26, 2022

Five Hot Security and Privacy Topics You Need To Understand in 2022. Throughout 2021 Thales hosted several webinars whose purpose was to raise awareness on trending topics around cybersecurity and privacy. Privacy Shield Framework. Privacy Shield was the framework used by more than 5,000 registered U.S.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 17, 2019

Modern encryption can trace its root back to before WWII when Alan Turing built a modern computer in order to break the Enigma. Encryption went from being a technology predominantly used in highly classified, mission critical applications to a foundational component used in almost all aspects of our lives.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 24, 2019

Yesterday, Attorney General William Barr gave a major speech on encryption policy -- what is commonly known as "going dark." Nor are we necessarily talking about the customized encryption used by large business enterprises to protect their operations. I think this is a major change in government position.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 1, 2020

Related: What we’ve learned from the massive breach of Capitol At RSA 2020 , I learned about how one of the routine daily chores all large organizations perform — data governance — has started to emerge as something of a cybersecurity multiplier. A robust data archiving strategy puts data into tiers, Lahiri says.

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eDiscovery Daily

JANUARY 15, 2020

Remember back in 2016 when Apple with in a court battle with the Department of Justice over giving investigators access to encrypted data on the iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters? Now, Apple is in a new dispute with the government again over the same issue. Or are there bigger privacy concerns at play here?

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Customer data, which was encrypted, was reported to be unaffected. The post The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 6 – 12 November 2023 appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog. Records breached: 79,582 Ontario hospitals update: information relating to 5.6 That’s it for this week’s round-up. We hope you found it useful.

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The Guardian Data Protection

JULY 20, 2023

Giving government oversight could endanger encrypted products like FaceTime and iMessage, Apple says Apple has warned that planned changes to UK surveillance laws could affect iPhone users’ privacy by forcing it to withdraw security features, which could ultimately lead to the closure of services like FaceTime and iMessage in the country.

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HL Chronicle of Data Protection

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Two years on since the first draft, the final act of the legislative passage saga of the long-awaited People’s Republic of China Encryption Law ended with its passage on 26 October 2019. To read Hogan Lovells’ The grand “finale” of China’s Encryption Law, click here. It will take effect on 1 January 2020.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 14, 2019

Last month, Attorney General William Barr gave a major speech on encryption policy­what is commonly known as "going dark." Nor are we necessarily talking about the customized encryption used by large business enterprises to protect their operations. I think this is a major change in government position.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Breached organisation: BHI Energy, providing staffing solutions to the nuclear, fossil, wind, hydro and government energy markets. Incident details: The company found that data on its network had been encrypted without its knowledge. Rock County refusing to pay bad actors who launched ransomware attack Date of breach: 18 October 2023.

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Data Matters

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

After supporters and opponents of mandated government access to encrypted communications publicly feuded for much of 2016, reprising arguments they’ve had since at least the days of the “Clipper Chip,” these “encryption debates” seemed to quiet down for much of last year. See, e.g., here.)

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Additionally, in highly regulated sectors such as finance or healthcare or state and local government entities, organizations need to meet additional compliance laws and mandates. For this reason, retaining control and management of encryption keys is paramount.

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The Guardian Data Protection

APRIL 25, 2020

But it’s an uphill battle due to a long history of secrecy and failures to live up to promises on security and privacy of Australians’ data. All the data will be deleted on the government’s server at the end of the pandemic. The privacy impact assessment will be public. The privacy protections will be legislated.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Susan Landau published an excellent essay on the current justification for the government breaking end-to-end-encryption: child sexual abuse and exploitation (CSAE). She puts the debate into historical context, discusses the problem of CSAE, and explains why breaking encryption isn’t the solution.

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Threatpost

AUGUST 13, 2020

The video-conferencing specialist has yet to roll out full encryption, but it says it's working on it.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2019

Slack announced today to launch encryption keys that will help businesses to protect their data. Slack announced today to launch encryption keys that will help businesses to protect their data. One of the main reason why companies are launching security centric features is, they value their customer’s data, privacy and security.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 28, 2019

This is true even though encryption will impose costs on society, especially victims of other types of crime. [.]. Basically, he argues that the security value of strong encryption greatly outweighs the security value of encryption that can be bypassed. He endorses a "defense dominant" strategy for Internet security.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Apple is bowing to pressure from the Chinese government and storing encryption keys in China. While I would prefer it if it would take a stand against China, I really can't blame it for putting its business model ahead of its desires for customer privacy. Two more articles.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Digital sovereignty enables enterprises to have better localized enforcement of privacy laws to maintain safe data stewardship of sensitive and publicly identifiable information (PII) to adhere to different privacy, data security and resilience regulations worldwide. The Monsido tool operates entirely on the Google Cloud Platform.

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erwin

JULY 12, 2019

In light of recent, high-profile data breaches, it’s past-time we re-examined strategic data governance and its role in managing regulatory requirements. Although the CCPA [California Consumer Privacy Act, the U.S. Govern PII “at rest”. Govern PII “in motion”. Given this, Oppenheimer & Co.

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Hunton Privacy

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Privacy Shield adequate for the purposes of transfers of personal data from Switzerland to the U.S. Privacy Shield for EU-U.S. Privacy Shield for EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework by the FDPIC since, as Switzerland is not a member of the EU, it is not bound by the CJEU ruling. transfers of personal data.

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