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Federal cybersecurity: breaking down the barriers to adoption

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

While many state and government officials are under no illusion that they are safe from a digital attack, concern should run deeper than election integrity. However, modernization and transformative technologies are creating new vulnerabilities resulting in data breaches. Data Breaches aren’t Slowing Down.

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Multi-cloud use by healthcare providers puts patient data at risk

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

As a result of government mandates, the need for greater efficiency, and the desire to enable better patient care, U.S. healthcare organizations are nearly universal in the adoption of digital transformation technologies (cloud, SaaS applications, big data, IoT, digital payments, containers, and blockchain). 12 at 2:00 p.m.

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Digital Transformation starts with the Employees

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Education is one solution to the skills gap, and more colleges are offering degrees and academic programs that cover information security management, privacy in the digital age, cybersecurity policy and governance, risk management, and cryptography. It is encouraging to see this type of adoption.

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AI/ML and Digital Security

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Sixty-four percent of the more than 1,200 senior security executives from around the world, whom we surveyed for the 2018 Thales Data Threat Report (DTR), believe artificial intelligence (AI) “increases data security by recognizing and alerting on attacks,” while 43% believe AI “results in increased threats due to use as a hacking tool.”.

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Retail has a multi-cloud problem…with sensitive data

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DX technologies such as cloud, mobile payments, IoT, Big Data and others have fundamentally changed retailers’ business models, not only by opening new channels to reach customers, but also in how they communicate with, serve, and support them. 3 – Focus on all threat vectors. 2 – Prioritize compliance issues.

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Agencies Step Up to Data Security Challenge

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

The roundtable, including more than a dozen IT and cyber leaders from government and industry, explored the business drivers, challenges and evolving strategies around cybersecurity in government. The discussion was wide-ranging, but repeatedly came back to the necessity of data security. The role of compliance is…complicated.

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It’s time to think twice about retail loyalty programs

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

As I was starting to write this blog, yet another retail program data breach occurred, for Marriott’s Starwood loyalty program. What I’d originally planned to write about was a topic that directly applies – why retailers of all stripes are not investing in data security.

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