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The Changing Face of Data Security in Federal Government

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

With details from our report, I also highlighted how demand for modernization, mobile payments, IoT, cloud migration and cost savings is driving the push for new technologies while increasing opportunities for threats. They have to enforce these controls that are defined by them by encrypting the data.”.

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Securing Data in the Digital Transformation Era

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Also with the increase in cloud, mobile, and IoT devices, a whole new generation of attack surfaces are vulnerable to hackers. Today, the vast majority of enterprises (94%) are using sensitive data in cloud, big data, IoT or mobile environments. Encryption has now become the leading solution for protecting sensitive data.

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Use cases of secure IoT deployment

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

In our previous blog post , we discussed the challenges for securing IoT deployments, and how businesses and consumers benefit from authenticating and validating IoT software and firmware updates. The most sensitive data, particularly the vehicle’s secret data and the user’s private data, should be encrypted using a robust algorithm.

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Why Are We Still Separating Credential Management and Machine Identity Management?

Security Boulevard

These entities can be tangible, like IoT sensors, mobile devices as well as abstract infrastructures like containers and microservices. For example, cyber criminals can leverage machine identities to evade detection by hiding in encrypted traffic. Remote work and cloud migration have created new norms and business models.

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Author Q&A: Former privacy officer urges leaders to prioritize security as part of cloud migration

The Last Watchdog

A good start would be to read Mobilizing the C-Suite: Waging War Against Cyberattacks, written by Frank Riccardi, a former privacy and compliance officer from the healthcare sector. And when strong passwords and MFA let you down, encryption can keep sensitive data from being accessed by cybercriminals.

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Unlocking the Cloud: Microsoft and Thales Spearhead Passwordless & MFA for Organizations moving to Microsoft 365.

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Crucially, this award recognizes the teamwork carried out over several years by Microsoft and Thales to help organizations secure their identities when migrating to the cloud. Multi-Factor Authentication: the mandatory first step for organizations moving to the cloud. Even the one without mobile phones?

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Cloud Security Checklist

Spinone

While the cloud has matured greatly and public cloud vendors have drastically improved security measures , technologies, services, and the overall security infrastructure, cloud security is certainly still one of the major concerns with cloud infrastructure of all types. This includes cloud environments.

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