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Privacy in the Age of Big Data – A Must-Read

Security Boulevard

MAY 17, 2023

In Privacy in the Age of Big Data, Theresa Payton and Ted Claypool tell us just how ubiquitous current threats to privacy are (which both the lay reader and security professionals will find disturbing). The post Privacy in the Age of Big Data – A Must-Read first appeared on Banyan Security.

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2021 KuppingerCole Leadership Compass names Imperva an overall leader for Database and Big Data Security

Security Boulevard

JANUARY 29, 2021

It is my pleasure to report that in their 2021 overview of the market for Database and Big Data Security solutions, leading technology analyst KuppingerCole has identified Imperva as an Overall Leader for the first time.

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Chinese threat actors extract big data and sell it on the dark web

SC Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

Researchers on Monday reported that cybercriminals are taking advantage of China’s push to become a leader in big data by extracting legitimate big data sources and selling the stolen data on the Chinese-language dark web. The offering was described as big data from an undisclosed mobile operator or operators.

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Three Strategies for Big Data Security

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

The 2018 Thales Data Threat Report (DTR) has great information on Big Data use and security. We surveyed more than 1,200 senior security executives from around the world, and virtually all (99%) report they plan to use Big Data this year. Top Big Data Security Concerns. Big Data is unstructured.

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Protecting Big Data, while Preserving Analytical Agility

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

The age of Big Data is upon us. And, as more data is available for analytical purposes, more sensitive and private information is at risk. Protecting the confidentiality and integrity and of warehoused data and ensuring that access is controlled is vital to keeping that data secure. respondents.”.

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Data-Centric Security and Big Data

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 9, 2018

It’s called the “Zero-Trust Model” and nothing supports it like data-centric security since the methods used can render data useless if it is ever stolen or removed from the enterprise. The Big Data Conundrum. Effective data-centric security solutions are the only reasonable path to realizing a Zero-Trust Model.

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Leopard Spots and Zebra Stripes: Big Data and Identity Management

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 12, 2018

In this age of big data, the concept is fitting, because this kind of information is increasingly being used to identify individuals and even machines. In the following, I focus on the analytics component, how it is increasingly used across enterprises, and why it is important to protect big data. Big Data Analytics.

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The dark side of online poker or the commoditization and weaponization of big data and espionage

Elie

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Big data weaponization and malware-based espionage are usually associated with governments; however, they don’t own a monopoly on such activities. Also, online poker uses big data to profile user behavior. This blog post is a brief tour of some of the darkest aspects of online poker.

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What is Machine Learning?

Security Boulevard

APRIL 18, 2022

This big data discipline of artificial intelligence gives systems the freedom to automatically gain information. The post What is Machine Learning? appeared first on Gurucul. The post What is Machine Learning? appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Cybersecurity Awareness Month Blog Series: Using Technology to Safeguard the Nation’s Critical Infrastructure

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 25, 2018

In this blog post, I’ll discuss: Our current perimeter defense; The need to shift to a data-centric security approach; and, The need to educate the public to strengthen our critical infrastructure security posture. Perimeter defense, while necessary, is not enough to protect our sensitive data.

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When data privacy and protection are rights, don’t get it wrong

Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Twenty-one years ago, Latanya Sweeney showed that it’s possible to uniquely identify 87% of Americans with just three pieces of personal data: gender, ZIP code and full date of birth. Long before anyone had heard the words ‘data lake’, ‘cloud storage’ or ‘big data’, nevermind ‘social media’, it was clear that the disclosure of even […].

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Why you need to update your risky default EMR managed roles and policies?

Security Boulevard

JANUARY 27, 2022

Amazon EMR is a managed cluster platform that simplifies running big data frameworks such as Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark. In this blog we will examine EMR's default roles and managed policies to understand if they follow security best practices of least privileges.

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Emerging security challenges for Europe’s emerging technologies

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

The vast majority (84%) of enterprises are now using, or planning to use, digitally transformative technologies – such as big data, containers, blockchain and the Internet of Things (IoT). The picture looks rather different, when we look at evolving threats in the context of big data.

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7 Habits of a Highly Effective CISO: 2019 Data Security Resolutions

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 3, 2019

One of our recent blogs highlights tips to help with selecting and confirming trust in your third-party vendors, and this rings true now more than ever. What’s in that Big Data Lake? With the uptick in digital transformation that we’re seeing, Big Data is far and wide, bringing genuine security concerns with it.

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3 New Awards in 3 Weeks – We are on a Roll!

Security Boulevard

JUNE 6, 2022

We’ve continued to lead the industry since then with the only solution able to correlate activities across millions of APIs and users over time and provide real-time analysis of all that data. Not attending these events but want to learn more about our cloud-based, big data API security solution?

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Octo Tempest cybercriminal group is "a growing concern"—Microsoft

Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 27, 2023

In a security blog about Octo Tempest Microsoft states: “Octo Tempest monetized their intrusions in 2022 by selling SIM swaps to other criminals and performing account takeovers of high-net-worth individuals to steal their cryptocurrency.”

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Anomali Appoints Cybersecurity Industry Leader Sean Foster as Chief Revenue Officer

CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 10, 2022

Anomali’s contribution to the XDR framework is significant and meaningful given our focus on Big Data as rooted in our core business of intelligence. Blog: [link]. We are helping customers correlate more than 190 trillion threats per second to optimize all their security solutions with a more refined and relevant response.

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GUEST ESSAY: Top 5 cyber exposures tied to the rising use of international remote workforces

The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 23, 2021

While she enjoys tackling topics across the technology space, she’s most passionate about educating readers on cybersecurity and Big Data. About the essayist: April Miller is a staff writer at ReHack Magazine.

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Is Your Data Safe in the Cloud?

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 18, 2019

To learn more, read “ Securing data in the hybrid cloud ” by my colleague Mark Royle, and “ Leverage Your Cloud Investments with VMware Cloud Marketplace ” by our partner at VMware, Hari Ramakrishnan. The post Is Your Data Safe in the Cloud? appeared first on Data Security Blog | Thales eSecurity.

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Understanding Your Data is the First Step to Unlocking Value from Cloud-Based Analytics

Security Boulevard

AUGUST 25, 2022

In fact, experts claim data-driven decision making will help leaders make more confident decisions, realize important cost savings and create a more proactive organization. But as we’ve discussed in previous parts of this blog series, privacy and security risk is a major concern with such projects.

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2018 Thales Data Threat Report, Global Edition: Digital Transformation & Data Security

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 25, 2018

Digital transformation inherently drives organizations into a data driven world – and each technology used for digital transformation (cloud, big data, IoT, blockchain, mobile payments and more) requires its own unique approach to protecting data. Big Data – 99%. Digital transformation drives massive change.

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Anomali Harris Poll Research Shows 87 Percent of Enterprise Security Decision Makers Have Had Successful Cyberattacks Perpetrated Against Their Businesses Over the Past Three Years, Ransomware Payments Topped $1 Million

CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 21, 2022

To help organizations achieve a higher level of resiliency across their organizations, Anomali Threat Research provided in-depth analysis and advice, their top takeaways included: Big Data – Cybersecurity professionals are now using big data analytics to identify threats before they happen. Blog: [link].

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Why you really need trust and influence in cybersecurity

Jane Frankland

JULY 24, 2020

Right now, we stand at a perilous intersection in our evolution – dealing with the challenges of big data, emerging technologies, and an assault on trust like we’ve never seen before. In my next blog, I’ll be examining trust in more detail. And, our transformation will be exciting, as well as difficult.

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Digital transformation escalates compliance challenges

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 1, 2019

The report shows that 97% of enterprises adopting digital transformation technologies use sensitive data within these new environments, but only 30% use encryption to protect data in these environments. For more information on the 2019 Global Data Threat Report-Global Edition, please visit our website.

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Holes in Linux Kernel Could Pose Problems for Red Hat, Ubuntu, Other Distros

eSecurity Planet

JULY 23, 2021

The two flaws – CVE-2021-33909 and CVE-2021-33910, respectively – were disclosed by vulnerability management vendor Qualys in a pair of blogs that outlined the threat to Linux OSes from such companies Red Hat, Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora. Companies shouldn’t shrug off these vulnerabilities.

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Leaky Buckets in a Multi-Cloud World

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 16, 2018

Additionally, Vormetric Transparent Encryption now supports storage data encryption for servers running AWS Elastic Map Reduce (EMR) and Hortonworks for AWS customers utilizing S3, giving those customers protection for their big data environments. Alternatively, leave a comment below, or give me a shout on Twitter.

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GUEST ESSAY – Notable events in hacking history that helped transform cybersecurity assessment

The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

While she enjoys tackling topics across the technology space, she’s most passionate about educating readers on cybersecurity and Big Data. About the essayist: April Miller is a staff writer at ReHack Magazine.

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Making the Case for Encryption in the Era of Digital Transformation – Highlights from our Annual Data Threat Report

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 29, 2019

In fact, 38% of organizations’ security concerns with cloud environments would be alleviated with data encryption at the service provider level. Data encryption has been proven to be among the most effective strategies for mitigating the damage caused by data loss. The importance of encryption cannot be overstated.

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Impact data: ¿está bien planteado su modelo de negocio?

Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The post Impact data: ¿está bien planteado su modelo de negocio? appeared first on ManageEngine Blog. The post Impact data: ¿está bien planteado su modelo de negocio? appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Securing data in the hybrid cloud

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 22, 2019

VMware Cloud on AWS can leverage Vormetric Transparent Encryption (VTE) from Thales to deliver data-at-rest encryption with centralized key management, privileged user access control and detailed data access audit logging that helps enterprises meet compliance reporting and best practice requirements for protecting data, wherever it resides.

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How to Prepare for the Future of Healthcare Digital Security

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 5, 2018

Healthcare’s IT evolution has brought numerous security challenges including regulations, the use of digitally transformative technologies that have created huge amounts of data to store and protect, and the extraordinary value of electronic personal health information (ePHI) to cybercriminals. Regulations. Almost all (96%) of U.S.

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Anomali Appoints Cybersecurity Industry Veteran Karen Buffo as Chief Marketing Officer

CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Blog: [link]. “I look forward to developing and amplifying the company’s brand to reach a wider range of global enterprises in need of solutions that efficiently and effectively identify and stop advanced adversaries.”. For more information, visit: [link]. Twitter: [link]. LinkedIn: [link]. About Anomali.

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Are Data Breaches the New Reality for Retail?

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 18, 2018

While retailers digitally transform their businesses to better serve the higher demands of their customers, they’re being challenged with safeguarding personal data to protect customers, partners and suppliers’ critical information. For more information on the 2018 Thales Data Threat Report-Retail Edition, please click here.

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To Go Native, Or Not to Go Native. A Cautionary Tale About Database Encryption

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 26, 2018

As a result, database encryption has never been more crucial in order to protect the massive amounts of information that is held in the diverse mix of databases that large enterprises rely on today, including relational, SQL, NoSQL and big data environments. The post To Go Native, Or Not to Go Native.

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Digital Transformation starts with the Employees

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Companies are required to transform at a new pace because of technological advances and trends in IoT, artificial intelligence, big data and most recently, cryptocurrency. You can also read more about the cybersecurity skills gap in Alan Kessler’s previous blog post.

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Calculate Splunk Ingestion Costs Savings when Pre-Processing Data Repository Logs with Imperva DSF

Security Boulevard

AUGUST 24, 2022

The post Calculate Splunk Ingestion Costs Savings when Pre-Processing Data Repository Logs with Imperva DSF appeared first on Blog. The post Calculate Splunk Ingestion Costs Savings when Pre-Processing Data Repository Logs with Imperva DSF appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Federal cybersecurity: breaking down the barriers to adoption

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 1, 2019

With New York’s CISO regulation, California’s Internet of Things (IoT) law and Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the future of big data looks to be massively regulated. Thales also will host a webinar on Thursday, May 30 at 2:00 PM ET about “The Changing Landscape of Data Security for U.S.

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Time to Move from Reactive to Proactive Endpoint Security

McAfee

JUNE 12, 2020

As most of us are aware, digital transformation through big data analytics, online transactions, the Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud-based applications has dramatically changed businesses of all kinds. At the same time, workers have become mobile on a global scale, requiring access to ever larger amounts of data.

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Anomali Announces Detect LIVE 2021, The Premier Event for Global Intelligence, Detection, and Response

CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Blog: [link]. To register and learn more about scheduled sessions, visit Anomali Detect LIVE 2021. Twitter: [link]. LinkedIn: [link]. Detect LIVE: [link]. About Anomali. Anomali is the leader in intelligence-driven extended detection and response (XDR) cybersecurity solutions.

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Lemon Group gang pre-infected 9 million Android devices for fraudulent activities

Security Affairs

MAY 19, 2023

The Lemon Group focuses on the utilization of big data gathered from compromised devices to monitor customers that can be further infected with other malicious payloads crafted for specific fraudulent activities, such as showing advertisements to app users from certain regions. Please nominate Security Affairs as your favorite blog.

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Leopard Spots and Zebra Stripes: Fraud and Behavioral Analytics

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 14, 2018

In this blog, and in an accompanying one by my Thales colleague Juan Asenjo, we will discuss the subject of big data analytics, and how it is enabling a new behavior-based authentication evolution for easier and more robust identity management. For more information about Entrust, please visit our partner page.

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The Deepfakes Lab: Detecting & Defending Against Deepfakes with Advanced AI

McAfee

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Our detection framework was able to detect a recent deepfake video of Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg giving a brief speech about the power of big data. In our next blog on deepfakes, we will demonstrate our detailed detection framework.

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GUEST ESSAY: Here’s how ‘WFM’ tools can boost productivity — and security — of remote workers

The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 30, 2021

While she enjoys tackling topics across the technology space, she’s most passionate about educating readers on cybersecurity and Big Data. About the essayist: April Miller is a staff writer at ReHack Magazine.

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Asset Management – Back To The Roots

Security Boulevard

MARCH 31, 2021

I recently co-authored a blog post on my favorite security metric that is related to asset management: How many assets are in the environment? Asset management is one of the core components of may successful security programs. I am an advisor to Panaseer, a startup in the continuous compliance management space. A simple number.

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Privacy in the Age of Big Data – A Must-Read

2021 KuppingerCole Leadership Compass names Imperva an overall leader for Database and Big Data Security

Webinars

Trending Sources

Chinese threat actors extract big data and sell it on the dark web

Webinars

Three Strategies for Big Data Security

Protecting Big Data, while Preserving Analytical Agility

Data-Centric Security and Big Data

Leopard Spots and Zebra Stripes: Big Data and Identity Management

The dark side of online poker or the commoditization and weaponization of big data and espionage

What is Machine Learning?

Cybersecurity Awareness Month Blog Series: Using Technology to Safeguard the Nation’s Critical Infrastructure

When data privacy and protection are rights, don’t get it wrong

Why you need to update your risky default EMR managed roles and policies?

Emerging security challenges for Europe’s emerging technologies

7 Habits of a Highly Effective CISO: 2019 Data Security Resolutions

3 New Awards in 3 Weeks – We are on a Roll!

Octo Tempest cybercriminal group is "a growing concern"—Microsoft

Anomali Appoints Cybersecurity Industry Leader Sean Foster as Chief Revenue Officer

GUEST ESSAY: Top 5 cyber exposures tied to the rising use of international remote workforces

Is Your Data Safe in the Cloud?

Understanding Your Data is the First Step to Unlocking Value from Cloud-Based Analytics

2018 Thales Data Threat Report, Global Edition: Digital Transformation & Data Security

Anomali Harris Poll Research Shows 87 Percent of Enterprise Security Decision Makers Have Had Successful Cyberattacks Perpetrated Against Their Businesses Over the Past Three Years, Ransomware Payments Topped $1 Million

Why you really need trust and influence in cybersecurity

Digital transformation escalates compliance challenges

Holes in Linux Kernel Could Pose Problems for Red Hat, Ubuntu, Other Distros

Leaky Buckets in a Multi-Cloud World

GUEST ESSAY – Notable events in hacking history that helped transform cybersecurity assessment

Making the Case for Encryption in the Era of Digital Transformation – Highlights from our Annual Data Threat Report

Impact data: ¿está bien planteado su modelo de negocio?

Securing data in the hybrid cloud

How to Prepare for the Future of Healthcare Digital Security

Anomali Appoints Cybersecurity Industry Veteran Karen Buffo as Chief Marketing Officer

Are Data Breaches the New Reality for Retail?

To Go Native, Or Not to Go Native. A Cautionary Tale About Database Encryption

Digital Transformation starts with the Employees

Calculate Splunk Ingestion Costs Savings when Pre-Processing Data Repository Logs with Imperva DSF

Federal cybersecurity: breaking down the barriers to adoption

Time to Move from Reactive to Proactive Endpoint Security

Anomali Announces Detect LIVE 2021, The Premier Event for Global Intelligence, Detection, and Response

Lemon Group gang pre-infected 9 million Android devices for fraudulent activities

Leopard Spots and Zebra Stripes: Fraud and Behavioral Analytics

The Deepfakes Lab: Detecting & Defending Against Deepfakes with Advanced AI

GUEST ESSAY: Here’s how ‘WFM’ tools can boost productivity — and security — of remote workers

Asset Management – Back To The Roots

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