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Release of Quantum Information Science and Technology White Paper

National Archives Records Express

We are pleased to announce the release of a white paper on the records management implications of Quantum Information Science and Technology (QIST). This is the third in a series of white papers—the first one being Blockchain (2019) and the second Cognitive Technologies (2020).

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Facebook announces WhatsApp end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) backups

Security Affairs

Facebook announced it will allow WhatsApp users to encrypt their message history backups in the cloud. Facebook will continue to work to protect the privacy of WhatsApp users and announced that it will allow users to encrypt their message history backups in the cloud. ” reads the announcement published by WhatsApp.

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Why should enterprises prepare for the coming threat of quantum computing?

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

For years, encryption has served as the primary tool for defending this information, both on-premises and in the cloud. But just as enterprises are responsible for safeguarding their sensitive information, they must also protect the encryption methods themselves. Encryption under threat. Encryption. Key management.

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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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Forrester and Accenture on Schrems II and the Security of International Data Flows

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Protect your data by deploying technology such as encryption and tokenization in accordance with the EDPB recommendations to render your data useless to governments and criminals. Control access to your data by controlling and managing the encryption keys. Encryption. Encryption Key Management. Access Control.

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US banking regulators propose a rule for 36-hour notice of breach

Data Protection Report

The proposed regulation specifically includes as an example of a notification incident a “ransom malware attack that encrypts a core banking system or backup data.” For more information, please see our white paper. Service providers would be required to notify two individuals at each affected banking organization.

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Seven Data Security Challenges You Must Meet to Comply with GDPR

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

The paper examines the regulation’s security standards and the capabilities security teams need to comply withthose standards in the face of more hybrid IT environments that encompass both on-premises and multiple cloud services. They are covered in more depth in our White Paper. Encryption for Data in Transit and at Rest.

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