eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 31, 2022

To make better risk decisions, you need comprehensive vulnerability intelligence,” the report said, adding that security teams can maximize resources and reduce their immediate workload by 82 percent by first focusing on actionable, high severity vulnerabilities. It’s hard to navigate with the wrong map.

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Security Risk Blockchain Metadata 130

IBM Big Data Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2023

As more businesses use AI systems and the technology continues to mature and change, improper use could expose a company to significant financial, operational, regulatory and reputational risks. It includes processes that trace and document the origin of data, models and associated metadata and pipelines for audits.

Government 70

Government Risk Artificial Intelligence Metadata 70

The Last Watchdog

MARCH 21, 2019

Metadata spying. Metadata is worthy of a separate examination. Despite warnings from cybersecurity academics, whistleblowers or former NSA and CIA agents, the general public shows no animosity toward metadata surveillance. Metadata can be used to reverse-engineer and pinpoint identity quite easily.

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Metadata IT Privacy Education 230

erwin

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Managing an organization’s governance, risk and compliance (GRC) via its enterprise and business architectures means managing them against business processes (BP). Governance, risk and compliance are treated as isolated bubbles. Data-related risks are not connected with the data architects/data scientists.

Compliance 98

Compliance Risk Government Data breaches 98

eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2021

SBOMs also offer protection against licensing and compliance risks associated with SLAs with a granular inventory of software components. A software bill of materials (SBOM) is a machine-readable inventory of components, dependencies, metadata, and the hierarchical relationship for a given software product. SBOM Use Cases.

Security 135

Security Risk Compliance Cybersecurity 135

Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2024

Direct Trading Technologies, an international fintech company, jeopardized over 300K traders by leaking their sensitive data and trading activity, thereby putting them at risk of an account takeover. The leak poses a variety of risks, expanding from identity theft to takeover and cashing-out accounts of traders. Users’ data.

Metadata 119

Metadata Passwords Risk Cybersecurity 119

erwin

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Now, as Cybersecurity Awareness Month comes to a close – and ghosts and goblins roam the streets – we thought it a good time to resurrect some guidance on how data governance can make data security less scary. That knowledge is critical to supporting efforts to keep relevant data secure and private. Where Are the Skeletons?

Government 105

Government Security Metadata Data breaches 105

Collibra

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Reducing data security and privacy risks Deeper privacy insights with streamlined access to assessment data In this release, Collibra introduces a new API for Assessments that lets you quickly connect and access assessment data for deeper reporting and analytics. Privacy assessments are an integral part of any privacy program.

Risk 52

Risk Education Privacy Cloud 52

AIIM

APRIL 27, 2021

Lower Security and Compliance Risk – the heightened classification and organization features of most cloud content platforms automatically ensure governance and regulatory protocols. Step 1: Improve Content Metadata. High-quality metadata is essential to improving search results. How can you achieve these lofty goals?

Cloud 190

Cloud ROT Metadata Content services 190

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Alex Holden is founder of Hold Security , a Milwaukee-based cybersecurity firm. “You need to create this file and inject into the machine(s) like this so that metadata would say that they were created on his computer,” they continued. “ Cl0p ” a.k.a. “One of my clients did it, I don’t know how.

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Ransomware Metadata Insurance Encryption 274

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

nuvola is the new open-source cloud security tool to address the privilege escalation in cloud environments. nuvola is the new open source security tool made by the Italian cyber security researcher Edoardo Rosa ( @_notdodo_ ), Security Engineer at Prima Assicurazioni. Cloud Security Context.

Cloud 97

Cloud Security Metadata Data breaches 97

erwin

JUNE 26, 2020

Organizations with particularly deep data stores might need a data catalog with advanced capabilities, such as automated metadata harvesting to speed up the data preparation process. Three Types of Metadata in a Data Catalog. The metadata provides information about the asset that makes it easier to locate, understand and evaluate.

Metadata 132

Metadata Unstructured data Compliance Sales 132

Security Affairs

JULY 1, 2023

Researchers at the WordPress security firm WPScan noticed rogue new administrator accounts kept appearing on the websites targeted by the threat actors. The researchers explained that the root cause of the problem is the use of a pre-defined list of user metadata keys that users should not manipulate.

Metadata 95

Metadata Security Risk IT 95

eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

. “Because this data contains such highly sensitive information as loan details, Bitcoin addresses and conversations about unemployment benefits, we believe that this data has the potential to put the organizations to whom the information belongs at risk,” Laminar Labs said in a statement. A Pervasive Privacy Problem.

Cloud 145

Cloud Data Privacy Metadata Privacy 145

erwin

MARCH 30, 2020

Unraveling Data Complexities with Metadata Management. Metadata management will be critical to the process for cataloging data via automated scans. Essentially, metadata management is the administration of data that describes other data, with an emphasis on associations and lineage. Data lineage to support impact analysis.

Metadata 122

Metadata IT Healthcare Government 122

Everteam

MARCH 16, 2023

Electronic Records Management Systems (ERMS) allow these documents to be stored securely, with integrity, in compliance with regulatory requirements, while making them easily accessible. This can lead to high storage costs, business risks and wasted employee time.

Metadata 52

Metadata Archiving Records Management Compliance 52

Security Affairs

JULY 3, 2023

MetaData: Metadata refers to data about data. Example: Metadata can include information about the source, creation date, file format, or authorship of a document. Understanding what can lead to a loss of data is important for organizations when drafting their cyber security policies, especially with relating to compliance.

Unstructured data 95

Unstructured data Metadata Encryption Data structuring 95

eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Attack surface management aims to automate the process of discovering, assessing, and prioritizing vulnerabilities and third-party, digital supply chain, and cloud risks. It addresses both internal and external (EASM) risks. CAASM (cyber asset ASM) and DRPS (digital risk protection) are also related terms and elements of ASM.

Cloud 113

Cloud Risk Compliance Security 113

Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2023

If the threat actors had exploited the vulnerability, it might have posed risks to the users’ data and could have potentially resulted in the takeover of the server. The.git directory is the place where the metadata and object database of the projects are stored.

Metadata 95

Metadata Access Risk IT 95

erwin

OCTOBER 8, 2020

And you can’t risk false starts or delayed ROI that reduces the confidence of the business and taint this transformational initiative. That means your cloud data assets must be available for use by the right people for the right purposes to maximize their security, quality and value. But let’s be honest – no one likes to move.

Cloud 145

Cloud Government Metadata Data structuring 145

AIIM

MARCH 4, 2021

Much of that context is captured in the form of metadata. This ensures that the record and its metadata cannot be altered, tampered with, or even deleted inappropriately and helps to demonstrate that trustworthiness and authenticity. This is much, much easier to do when documents are stored in a secure repository.

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Information capture Digital transformation Records Management Metadata 137

erwin

APRIL 2, 2021

With more companies increasingly migrating their data to the cloud to ensure availability and scalability, the risks associated with data management and protection also are growing. Data Security Starts with Data Governance. Lack of a solid data governance foundation increases the risk of data-security incidents.

Government 106

Government GDPR Metadata Risk 106

erwin

MAY 31, 2019

The typical notion is that enterprise architects and data (and metadata) architects are in opposite corners. At Avydium , we believe there’s an important middle ground where different architecture disciplines coexist, including enterprise, solution, application, data, metadata and technical architectures. Where do these layers connect?

Metadata 104

Metadata Cloud Digital transformation Government 104

Gimmal

JANUARY 24, 2022

The need to secure a document for legal holds or to meet industry-specific records compliance is not a new concept for records managers. This prevents end-users from deleting or modifying the content itself for its metadata properties. By doing this, a records management system will typically place a lock on that content.

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Records Management Metadata Risk Compliance 98

erwin

APRIL 9, 2020

If we have not yet ingested and organized both at-rest and in-motion metadata from across our system landscape, then we may be at a disadvantage when it comes to business continuity. As a mitigation for this risk, my family has discussed how we will reunite should a disaster occur when we are outside the home.

Metadata 132

Metadata Risk Security IT 132

erwin

JULY 12, 2019

Modern, strategic data governance , which involves both IT and the business, enables organizations to plan and document how they will discover and understand their data within context, track its physical existence and lineage, and maximize its security, quality and value. Strengthen data security. Five Steps to GDPR/CCPA Compliance.

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GDPR Government Metadata Compliance 110

Gimmal

AUGUST 17, 2023

While storage of this information may not be expensive on a relative scale, keeping it makes the information harder to search for and retrieve, increases the cost of eDiscovery, and leads to the wrong data being used, or worse, increases the risks for sensitive data breaches. Users don’t know what metadata to tag on content.

ROT 52

ROT Metadata Cleanup Records Management 52

AIIM

JULY 15, 2021

There are certain outcomes to be aware of and avoid : Implementation is Half Baked: Maybe security is not thought through. Files are uploaded but do not have any corresponding metadata to make them searchable. Documents are hard to locate, security is an afterthought and every group has its own way of “managing content".

Libraries 190

Libraries Metadata Access Risk 190

Security Affairs

MARCH 3, 2021

WizCase security team has found a major breach in phone-tracking service Ringostat ’s database. The leak has since been secured. The information leaked included approximately 8,000,000 voice recordings, 13,000,000 phone numbers, and hundreds of millions of call logs and metadata. Redacted example of metadata information.

Data breaches 99

Data breaches Metadata Phishing B2B 99

AIIM

DECEMBER 19, 2019

This phase would include the following steps: Take Inventory of the Source System: This means identifying the information in the system, its metadata, how it is categorized and classified, any relevant business rules or workflows, security settings, etc. But this is not enough – what if the metadata for each item is off?

Metadata 104

Metadata Records Management ROT Cleanup 104

Schneier on Security

JANUARY 31, 2020

The Department of Interior is grounding all non-emergency drones due to security concerns: The order comes amid a spate of warnings and bans at multiple government agencies, including the Department of Defense, about possible vulnerabilities in Chinese-made drone systems that could be allowing Beijing to conduct espionage.

Metadata 121

Metadata Encryption Risk Government 121

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2023

More than 22,000 users of Blink Mobility should take the necessary steps to protect themselves against the risk of identity theft. Its metadata was then indexed by search engines and discovered by Cybernews researchers on October 17th. The Cybernews research team has discovered that their personal data was exposed in a leak.

Passwords 107

Passwords Phishing Metadata Personal data 107

eSecurity Planet

JUNE 27, 2023

Security information and event management (SIEM) systems only have detections for 24 percent of the 196 techniques in MITRE ATT&CK v13, according to a new report. “This implies that adversaries can execute around 150 different techniques that will be undetected by the SIEM,” says the CardinalOps report.

Metadata 109

Metadata Financial Services Insurance Manufacturing 109

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 19, 2022

A.git folder contains essential information about projects, such as remote repository addresses, commit history logs, and other essential metadata. The post Experts discovered millions of.git folders exposed to public appeared first on Security Affairs. Leaving this data in open access can lead to breaches and system exposure.

Metadata 117

Metadata Access Risk IT 117

Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2023

Researchers at the security firm Orca discovered that four different Microsoft Azure services were vulnerable to server-side request forgery (SSRF) attacks. The experts pointed out that SSRF vulnerabilities can allow attackers with access to the host’s IMDS (Cloud Instance Metadata Service), to retrieve detailed info on instances (i.e.

Authentication 97

Authentication Cloud Metadata Access 97

eSecurity Planet

MARCH 29, 2024

Data loss prevention (DLP) refers to a set of security solutions that identify and monitor information content across storage, operations, and networks. An effective DLP solution provides the security team a complete visibility of their networks. DLP solutions help detect and prevent potential data exposure or leaks.

Data breaches 70

Data breaches Compliance Risk Access 70

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

An investigation into indexed information from internet-connected devices provided a list of universities with compromised website security. The level of security wasn’t necessarily linked to the university’s size or significance, as both small and large universities displayed similar vulnerabilities.

Cybersecurity 124

Cybersecurity Access Passwords Metadata 124