The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Because 65% of all data breaches are caused by negligence, there’s no excuse for organizations not to prioritize employee happiness and engagement. Just as negligence plays a notable role in security data breaches, insider threats also cause significant damage. Insider threat protection.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 23, 2021

While most governments won’t likely do anything nefarious with this information, it does heighten the risk of a data breach. Surveillance gives cybercriminals another potential point of entry to see or steal your data. In some countries, government agencies may monitor your employees’ web activity.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 25, 2018

First – The breaches. It’s probably no surprise to anyone reading this that organizations are experiencing record data breaches; we hear about the breaches almost daily even in mainstream media. What we capture as part of our data is a bit different, however. Big Data – 99%. And it’s not good news.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 31, 2018

Data breaches are the new normal. According to our 2018 Global Data Threat Report , 67% of enterprises have been breached, with that percentage rate growing every year. Today, the vast majority of enterprises (94%) are using sensitive data in cloud, big data, IoT or mobile environments.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 5, 2018

One of the top findings from the 2018 Thales Data Threat Report, Financial Services Edition was that data breaches in U.S. Not only are breaches at record highs – with 65% of U.S. Looked at another way, there’s a 90% chance that most financial services organizations will have two data breaches between now and then.

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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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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

The results showed, for instance, that almost every organization surveyed is dealing with digital transformation at one level or another (97%), and that organizations that are aggressively investing in digital transformation had higher rates of data breaches. Let’s talk about breach rates first. The data bears this out.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Phishing scams, malware, ransomware and data breaches are just some of the examples of cyberthreats that can devastate business operations and the protection of consumer information. While she enjoys tackling topics across the technology space, she’s most passionate about educating readers on cybersecurity and Big Data.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

To further prove to be good stewards of customer data, they can also assure data security service level agreements are in place with the third parties that they share your data with. Today, as data breaches increase in severity and scale, preventative measures like putting up a wall to keep out intruders will only go so far.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 11, 2018

As I was starting to write this blog, yet another retail program data breach occurred, for Marriott’s Starwood loyalty program. For more information about optimal data security solutions for retailers, please visit Thales eSecurity’s dedicated landing page. This had me asking a simple question – Why?

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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. We are living in an era where data breaches are the new normal.

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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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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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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 21, 2022

Overall losses, due to cyberattacks, phishing email campaigns, and data breaches jumped significantly between 2019 and 2020. Blog: [link]. manager level or higher and have influence on data security solutions) or a business perspective (i.e., director level or higher and have influence over data security strategy).

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

News of data breaches, data vulnerabilities and compromised private information is released almost daily from businesses both small and large. Legislation has recently been proposed for individual states, addressing data privacy regulations head-on. Related: Europe’s GDPR ushers in new privacy era.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Beyond alleviating cloud concerns, encryption was identified as the top tool to drive the use of other digitally transformative technologies like, big data, IoT and containers, according to the 2020 Thales Data Threat Report-Global Edition. Yet, despite their significance, rates of data encryption and tokenization are low.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 20, 2017

We’re now seeing big data play an increasing role in how retail sales and payments are being tailored to individual consumer’s preferences, and providers are adopting and integrating smarter, more efficient ways of completing the path-to-purchase. appeared first on Data Security Blog | Thales e-Security.

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Centraleyes

MAY 6, 2024

A Look at Some Numbers 31% of the participating European insurance firms were utilizing AI across the entire value chain, and another 24% were in the “proof of concept” stage, according to EIOPA’s 2018 thematic study on the use of big data analytics in health and auto insurance. Ready for some more numbers?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 6, 2018

Gartner defines digital risk management as “the integrated management of risks associated with digital business components, such as cloud, mobile, social, big data, third-party technology providers, OT and the IoT.” Some smaller companies have even gone out of business as the result of a data breach.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 20, 2018

What’s different now is that cyber efforts are beginning to put controls closer to the data itself, rather than focusing on the perimeter. The urgency around data security is increasing. And the data environment only continues to grow more complex.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 24, 2018

Question: Can you provide an overview of the 2018 Thales Data Threat Report, Federal Edition, and elaborate why it’s needed today more than ever? Our 2018 Thales Data Threat Report, Federal Edition , issued in conjunction with analyst firm 451 Research, polled U.S. Question: In a world where some 68 percent of U.S.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 6, 2018

For most enterprise IT security professionals, there are some common reasons that we need to protect a given data set. Minimizing the chance of a data breach of PII. Protecting sensitive financial data, intellectual property or secrets. Implementing best practices. Or complying with a customer or supplier requirement.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 3, 2019

With more and more organizations embracing digital transformation and accelerating their pace to digitize every piece of information, they become increasingly vulnerable to sophisticated cyber-attacks and data breaches. With the global spend on digital transformation slated to reach a whopping $2.3

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2022

It is easy to forget that our data will probably be warehoused and crunched by an external multi-million dollar data warehousing and analysis company, not the friendly, trustworthy folks at the customer service center. Big Data storage systems have weaknesses. And so, the data breaches keep getting bigger.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 1, 2021

roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, May 2021. More Big Data Breaches. Cyber Security: Data ‘Re’-Assurance. UK Smarties Cities Cybersecurity Warning. Is your Home Router a Security Risk? At least 4.5

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Troy Hunt

OCTOBER 10, 2018

When I then load a data breach, every email address in the source data is hashed and if any begin with 567159 then a callback needs to be sent to an API on the subscriber's end. If test@example.com is signed up, it's 567159 being those first chars which gets stored in HIBP.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Corporate data is increasingly stored and processed outside the traditional boundaries of the enterprise, in multiple cloud platforms, altering the threat landscape. In a recent blog I wrote for ISACA ransomware attacks have been on the rise , resulting in data extortion threats and IT system compromises.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Related: Cyber risks spinning out of IoT Credential stuffing and account takeovers – which take full advantage of Big Data, high-velocity software, and automation – inundated the internet in massive surges in 2018 and the first half of 2019, according to multiple reports. This column originally appeared on Avast Blog.).

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Lenny Zeltser

JULY 25, 2018

In reality, the miscreant likely obtained the password from one of many data dumps that include email addresses, passwords, and other personal information stolen from breached websites. Data Breach Lawsuit Scam. We are preparing a lawsuit against the company that allowed a big data leak.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Within the past year, 57% of federal respondents experienced a data breach. This marks a huge jump from the 2017 report (34% of breached) and the 2016 report (18%). government agencies worldwide experienced a breach this past year. To learn more about Thales’ data encryption solutions, click here.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Related: Automated attacks leverage big data For several years now, both have flared up and caused harm at the fringes of population centers and our digital economy. Hahad “Over the years, various data breaches ended up exposing key personal information about U.S. This column originally appeared on Avast Blog.).

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