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Black Hat insights: Getting bombarded by multiple ransomware attacks has become commonplace

The Last Watchdog

This grim outlook is shared in a new white paper from Sophos. Each of the three ransomware gangs encrypted whatever systems they could get their hands on; and each left its own ransom demand. Thus, some of the victim company’s assets got triple encrypted. In short, overlapping cyber attacks have become the norm.

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

The Last Watchdog

With so much at stake, it’s a marvel that AD disaster recovery protocol traditionally has been based on a 60-page white paper that needs to be manually followed. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. Talk more soon.

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How to prepare for the California Consumer Privacy Act

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

When you boil these down for your organization into technology and process requirements, you’ll find that encryption, tokenization, strong key management, and access controls can satisfy many of the privacy requirements to protect your organization from breach notification actions. (4)

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MY TAKE: Can Project Wildland’s egalitarian platform make Google, Facebook obsolete?

The Last Watchdog

Technologically speaking, we are where we are because a handful of tech giants figured out how to collect, store and monetize user data in a singular fashion. We have no control over how the tech giants extract and profit from the intrinsic value of our personal data. Zuboff and Rifkin eloquently summarize how this came to be.

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Using Strategic Data Governance to Manage GDPR/CCPA Complexity

erwin

So it’s important to understand how to use strategic data governance to manage the complexity of regulatory compliance and other business objectives … Designing and Operationalizing Regulatory Compliance Strategy. How erwin Can Help. Strengthen data security.

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MY TAKE: How digital technology and the rising gig economy are exacerbating third-party risks

The Last Watchdog

We do white papers and thought leadership at conferences. And once you have that, then you have the ability to reverse algorithms and unlock encryption. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. It’s membership and cross-industry driven.”

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Using Encryption with Access Controls to Mitigate Malware and Ransomware Damage

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Using Encryption with Access Controls to Mitigate Malware and Ransomware Damage. When it comes to how to help protect against such attacks, there are several best practices every organization should follow. All Encryption Solutions are Not Created Equal. Mon, 12/21/2020 - 07:23. Layers of Defense Mitigate These Attacks.