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Best Encryption Software for 2022

eSecurity Planet

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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How the new Spirion-Thales partnership enables sensitive-data-centric encryption

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

How the new Spirion-Thales partnership enables sensitive-data-centric encryption. Planning your enterprise security posture should work the same way. The security must be embedded with the data wherever it travels. Encryption achieves this goal by making the data readable only to those individuals with the proper access levels.

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Ransomware operators exploit VMWare ESXi flaws to encrypt disks of VMs

Security Affairs

Ransomware operators are exploiting two VMWare ESXi vulnerabilities, CVE-2019-5544 and CVE-2020-3992, to encrypt virtual hard disks. Security experts are warning of ransomware attacks exploiting two VMWare ESXi vulnerabilities, CVE-2019-5544 and CVE-2020-3992 , to encrypt virtual hard disks. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Ragnar Ransomware encrypts files from virtual machines to evade detection

Security Affairs

Ransomware encrypts from virtual machines to evade antivirus. Ragnar Locker deploys Windows XP virtual machines to encrypt victim’s files, the trick allows to evaded detection from security software. ” reads the report published by Sophos.

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Enhancing Data Sovereignty: VMware Sovereign Cloud and Thales Join Forces

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

To meet this need, Thales and VMware are joining forces in a strategic partnership to offer customers the ability to retain control of their encryption keys and data. This creates challenges related to managing sensitive data and keeping it secure. For this reason, retaining control and management of encryption keys is paramount.

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Homomorphic Encryption Makes Real-World Gains, Pushed by Google, IBM, Microsoft

eSecurity Planet

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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IaaS Security: Top 8 Issues & Prevention Best Practices

eSecurity Planet

Infrastructure as a service security is a concept that assures the safety of organizations’ data, applications, and networks in the cloud. Understanding the risks, advantages, and best practices connected with IaaS security is becoming increasingly important as enterprises shift their infrastructure to the cloud.