The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 10, 2022

Related: The dangers of normalizing encryption for government use. Planning required processes and security components when initially building your architecture. Encryption. Encrypting data in storage and while it is being transferred can also significantly de-risk work scenarios revolving around the use of personal data.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 16, 2022

In a previous blog post, I discussed how The White House Executive Order issued on May 12, 2021 laid out new, rigorous government cyber security standards for federal agencies. Protect – Encrypt data at rest and in-flight without costly performance impact. Government. MFA and Encryption. Tue, 05/17/2022 - 05:36.

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Centraleyes

MARCH 11, 2024

What are Cloud Architecture Frameworks? Cloud architecture frameworks are comprehensive structures or sets of guidelines designed to assist in the planning, designing, and implementing of cloud-based systems and solutions. Are Cloud Architecture Frameworks Mandated?

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 2, 2024

Ransomware gangs also got stealthier in 2023, with ThreatLabz observing an increase in encryption-less extortion attacks. The absence of encryption allows attackers to eliminate development cycles and decryption support and quietly exfiltrate data before making ransom demands.

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Duo's Security Blog

MAY 17, 2021

These events dramatically impacted the operations of the federal government and critical services organizations, as well as private sector companies who use the same software and services as the target groups. The order seeks to mandate common security practices across the federal government. Some will occur in a year or more.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 16, 2022

The emergence of ransomware groups targeting critical infrastructure such as healthcare facilities and energy organizations, as well as the rising trend of large-scale data breaches, is putting governments' capacity to defend citizens' lives, property, and well-being in jeopardy.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 22, 2021

As our CEO Sam King remarked, “It gets really specific about the types of security controls they want organizations to adhere to and government agencies to take into account when they’re looking to do business with software vendors in particular.”. It sets a new precedent for the development of software sold to the government.

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Veracode Security

JUNE 22, 2021

As our CEO Sam King remarked, “It gets really specific about the types of security controls they want organizations to adhere to and government agencies to take into account when they’re looking to do business with software vendors in particular.” It sets a new precedent for the development of software sold to the government.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 10, 2022

Multi-cloud consumption raises concerns about the operational complexity of successfully managing both encryption and the corresponding keys across multiple providers, each with their own consoles and APIs,” the Thales report states. 509 certificates and other encrypted credentials) in a multi-cloud ecosystem. Visibility.

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Veracode Security

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

In 2017, we started a blog series talking about how to securely implement a crypto-system in java. Generic to entire Java Cryptography Architecture (JCA). Looking at what we discussed in How to Get Started Using Java Cryptography Securely post, the central theme of Java Cryptography Architecture (JCA) [11] ??defining algorithms.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 15, 2022

The directive’s third section, entitled “Modernizing Federal Government Cybersecurity,” requires Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies to begin moving to a zero trust architecture (ZTA). For instance, it commands each agency head to “develop a plan to implement Zero Trust Architecture” with 60 days of the Order’s release.

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Centraleyes

APRIL 15, 2024

With its core principle of “never trust, always verify,” Zero Trust overcomes the limitations of traditional architectures by requiring continuous verification. It’s a strategic model that incorporates Zero Trust Architecture into a system. The benefits of Zero Trust Architecture far outweigh the initial costs.

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Veracode Security

APRIL 7, 2021

This is the eighth entry in the blog series on using Java Cryptography securely. The first few entries talked about architectural details , Cryptographically Secure Random Number Generators , encryption/decryption , and message digests. One of the most widely adopted government standardized password hashing algorithm??is

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

In fact, it’s widely believed that today threat actors are even saving encrypted content so they can break it later using quantum computers. Rather, over time the difficulty and time required to break encrypted files and communications will continue to decrease, and the risk of using pre-quantum algorithms will keep increasing.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

A key principle of a Zero Trust architecture, as defined in NIST SP 800-207 , is that no network is implicitly trusted. Hence, all network traffic “must be encrypted and authenticated as soon as practicable.” Ensure ownership and governance. This includes traffic between devices, containers, APIs and other cloud workloads.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Organizations admitted that on average, only about half (49%) of the data stored in the cloud is secured with encryption and only one-third (32%) believe protecting data in the cloud is their responsibility. Encrypting data in the cloud. When it comes to encryption keys, it is all about control. BYOK vs HYOK.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Here is Erin’s Q&A column, which originally went live on OneRep’s well-done blog.) For the first expert interview on our blog, we welcomed Pulitzer-winning investigative reporter Byron V. Erin: What role should governments play in combating cybercrime? Erin: How has the ransomware threat evolved in recent years?

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Duo's Security Blog

MAY 18, 2021

“Phishing is responsible for the vast majority of breaches in this pattern, with cloud-based email servers being a target of choice." — 2021 Verizon DBIR The federal government had a tough year when it came to data breaches and ransomware attacks.

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Duo's Security Blog

JANUARY 28, 2022

Where the Federal government goes, other parts of the private sector follow. So it was good to see that in response to last May’s Executive Order 14028 , the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released a memo Wednesday outlining a new strategy for moving the federal government toward a zero trust cybersecurity posture. What’s Next?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Encryption technologies are the top tools needed. Encryption and tokenization solutions provide some of the strongest protection in today’s data threat environment, and respondents seem to understand this. At 40%, data encryption was the top technology needed to alleviate data security concerns for cloud environments.

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Cisco Security

MARCH 22, 2022

But according to Anne Neuberger, the White House’s Deputy National Security Adviser for Cyber and Emerging Technology, this warning is “based on evolving threat intelligence, that the Russian government is exploring options for potential cyberattacks on critical infrastructure in the United States.”. Backup all critical data at least daily.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 7, 2021

This is the eighth entry in the blog series on using Java Cryptography securely. The first few entries talked about architectural details , Cryptographically Secure Random Number Generators , encryption/decryption , and message digests. One of the most widely adopted government standardized password hashing algorithm??is

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Jane Frankland

OCTOBER 10, 2023

In this blog, I’ll be exploring how working with cloud-based security solution providers can unlock success while allowing ITDMs at organisations large and small the ability to protect their operations from unforeseen risks. They need to have a well-defined strategy, an adaptable governance model, and stakeholder buy in.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 5, 2021

Two of the largest government security agencies are laying out the key cyberthreats to Kubernetes, the popular platform for orchestrating and managing containers, and ways to harden the open-source tool against attacks. ” Containers, Kubernetes Take Over. . Insider threats can be administrators, users, or cloud service providers.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The ASVS lists 14 controls: Architecture, design, and threat modeling. Additionally, the ASVS notes it can be applied to the following use cases: Security architecture guide. NIST is the US federal agency tasked with setting out best practices governing the public sector. Encrypt sensitive traffic over public networks.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 22, 2019

A recent report revealed that digital transformation efforts of federal agencies are putting sensitive government data — your data — at risk. Nearly 70% of respondents in the report admit they’re not encrypting the data they’re supposed to be protecting.

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Veracode Security

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

This is the ninth entry in blog series on using Java Cryptography securely. We started off by looking at the basics of Java Cryptography Architecture, assembling one crypto primitive after other in posts on Cryptographically Secure Random Number Generator, symmetric & asymmetric encryption/decryption & hashes.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 21, 2017

There is simply far more data to lose today, and thanks to data breach notification laws and good netizens, we now know about the household names that lose control of our personal information and government secrets. On both occasions Uber left its encryption keys on GitHub, which in part led to the breach.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Year-in and year-out, criminal innovation has far outpaced the effort on the part of companies and governments to defend their business networks, as well as to preserve the sanctity of our private data. What’s more, key industry standards-setting bodies and government regulators are well aware of what’s at stake. Shock-immune public.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

This year, the framework became official federal policy for government agencies. A strong PKI security architecture together with encryption and code signing are core technology investments for organizations building a trusted IoT ecosystem. government agencies to meet the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, please click here.

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McAfee

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Cloud access security brokers have become an essential element of any cloud security strategy, helping organizations govern the use of cloud and protect sensitive data in the cloud. Support of encryption enhancements in Microsoft Teams, becoming the only CASB that is Certified for Microsoft Teams.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

This is the ninth entry in blog series on using Java Cryptography securely. We started off by looking at the basics of Java Cryptography Architecture, assembling one crypto primitive after other in posts on Cryptographically Secure Random Number Generator, symmetric & asymmetric encryption/decryption & hashes.

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Authentication Architecture Encryption Government 59

McAfee

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Government’s FedRAMP High JAB P-ATO Designation. governments race to modernize its IT infrastructure in the constantly evolving threat landscape, McAfee has pursued and received a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) Authorization designation for McAfee MVISION for Endpoint at the moderate security impact level.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 13, 2022

Governments, nonprofits, and schools—some forced to close their doors—didn’t escape unscathed. Services—a catch-all term encompassing service-providing sectors such as transportation, travel, finance, health, education, information, government, and a myriad of other industries—was targeted the most by cybercriminals.

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Cisco Security

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

In my blog yesterday , I had mentioned the introduction of Secure Cloud Insights, which enriches the Cisco SecureX platform with context from your cloud assets. Cisco Endpoint Security expands to stop more stop threats easier, faster. The dangers of ransomware and other threats to organizations drive our innovations.

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McAfee

OCTOBER 8, 2019

This blog was written by Wayne Anderson, previous Enterprise Security Architect at McAfee. Effective governance and strategy can help you figure out which platforms have security relevant data. When it comes to governance, IoT has the potential to turn asset management issues up to “11” on the 10-point scale of concern.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 23, 2018

Multi-tenancy is an architecture in which a single instance of software serves multiple customers, or tenants. The shift towards consolidation, especially in the federal government, is also abundantly clear with the increase of hyperconverged infrastructure adoption and the push for organizations to do more with less.

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