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The Value of Data Governance and How to Quantify It

erwin

erwin recently hosted the second in its six-part webinar series on the practice of data governance and how to proactively deal with its complexities. Led by Frank Pörschmann of iDIGMA GmbH, an IT industry veteran and data governance strategist, the second webinar focused on “ The Value of Data Governance & How to Quantify It.”.

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New RA Group ransomware gang is the latest group using leaked Babuk source code

Security Affairs

Compromised organizations operate in different business verticals, including manufacturing, wealth management, insurance providers, and pharmaceuticals. The ransomware supports intermittent encryption to speed up the encryption process. This process encrypts only a certain part of the source file’s contents, not the entire file.”

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MY TAKE: Why ‘basic research’ is so vital to bringing digital transformation to full fruition

The Last Watchdog

Biomedical engineer Dr. Joe Alexander, the former medical director at pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, grabbed a distinguished scientist post, as well. Digital commerce exists in the form we have it today because of the Public Key Infrastructure, or PKI , our system for encrypting data and certifying its authenticity.

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STEPS FORWARD: Math geniuses strive to make a pivotal advance — by obfuscating software code

The Last Watchdog

Tatsuaki Okamoto, director of NTT Research’s Cryptography and Information Security (CIS) Lab , and Dr. Amit Sahai, professor of computer science at UCLA Samueli School of Engineering and director of UCLA Center for Encrypted Functionalities (CEF). But it took massive processing power to make Gentry’s crude prototype work.

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Half of EDR Tools, Organizations Vulnerable to Clop Ransomware: Researchers

eSecurity Planet

The group has targeted pharmaceutical companies and other healthcare institutions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Encrypt backup data to ensure the data infrastructure’s immutability and coverage. Backup and Restoration: Keep offline backups of data and execute backup and restore on a regular basis.

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NEW TECH: How Semperis came to close a huge gap in Active Directory disaster preparedness

The Last Watchdog

But then came a wave of ransomware attacks like WannaCry and cyber weapons like NotPetya, the ransomware spreading worm that encrypted AD, locking out company control — permanently, without a distinction as to whether its extortion demands went unmet or not. Whoever was behind NotPetya leveraged cyber weapons stolen from the NSA. “If

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Connecting the Bots – Hancitor fuels Cuba Ransomware Operations

Security Affairs

As always, the document contains instructions on how to remove “protection”: Figure 2. Files are encrypted using ChaCha20 with 12-bytes length IV. The keys are encrypted with RSA-4096 algorithm. Such emails are disguised to look like DocuSign notifications: Figure 1.