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How to Meet Phishing-Resistant MFA

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

How to Meet Phishing-Resistant MFA madhav Tue, 08/01/2023 - 05:18 Incorporating multi-factor authentication (MFA) as a fundamental security measure for your organization is now considered standard practice. How Can Businesses Meet This Compliance Requirement? It's a sensible decision to utilize MFA.

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Can smart cities be secured and trusted?

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

As you finish what you thought would be your last espresso and grab your laptop to leave work, your colleague tells you that you need to stay late for an urgent meeting. It is the year 2030, and you have had another busy day. Panic sets in, but you push past it and put a plan into motion. You breathe a sigh of relief!

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City of Dallas has set a budget of $8.5 million to mitigate the May Royal ransomware attack

Security Affairs

MILES/CBS NEWS TEXAS The Royal ransomware group is behind the attack and threatens to publish stolen data if the City will not meet its ransom demand. The command-and-control beacons allowed Royal to prepare the City’s network resources for the May 03, 2023, ransomware encryption attack.” ” continues the report.

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Top 12 Cloud Security Best Practices for 2021

eSecurity Planet

Does the provider encrypt data while in transit and at rest? In some cases, the cloud vendor may have a policy enforcement feature that is sufficient to meet the organization’s needs. Encrypt data in motion and at rest. Encryption is a key part of any cloud security strategy.

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Data Protection in the Digital Transformation Era

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

In this post, we’ll elaborate on how organizations can finalize the best approach to implement data encryption at an organizational level in an agile and efficient way. In a nutshell, no matter it’s data-at-rest or data-in-motion , it should be encrypted regardless of its state. Ground Reality: The Problem of Plenty!

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Protecting America’s Critical Infrastructure

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Now, OT networks are moving to more standard IP networks, and digital information monitoring is required to meet increasing energy demand, regulatory compliance, and business efficiency requirements. All these measures are considered best practices for data protection. electrical grid is effectively attacked.

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Addressing Remote Desktop Attacks and Security

eSecurity Planet

By exploiting weak server vulnerabilities, the Iran-based hackers were able to gain access, move laterally, encrypt IT systems, and demand ransom payment. A few days later, IT systems started malfunctioning with ransom messages following. clinical labs company September U.S. Remote Desktop Software and Cybersecurity.

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