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It’s not ‘See you later.’ It’s ‘Goodbye’: Moving on from Tokenization in the age of Ransomware

CyberSecurity Insiders

Tokenization was invented a little over twenty years ago in 2001 to address the risk of losing cardholder data from eCommerce platforms. It does not matter that the victims have their backup and recovery systems in order. Encryption-in-use, a.k.a. This data is then used to extort victim organizations, customers, and partners.

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What Is Encryption? Definition, How it Works, & Examples

eSecurity Planet

AES or the Advanced Encryption Standard was adopted in 2001 by the US National Institute of Standards and Testing (NIST) as the standard for symmetric encryption. Second, encryption key rotation can render data stored in backups or on removable media inaccessible. Currently, the top four algorithms include AES, Blowfish, ECC, and RSA.

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Encryption: How It Works, Types, and the Quantum Future

eSecurity Planet

Financial institutions in the 1990s and 2000s were some of the first to incorporate encryption to protect online transactions, particularly as backup tapes were lost in transit. By 2001, the NIST dubbed it the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) and officially replaced the use of DES. Uses of Encryption.

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Top Database Security Solutions for 2021

eSecurity Planet

From a GUI enterprise manager to advanced logical replication, backup and recovery, and a migration toolkit, EDB is a go-to vendor for all Postgre database administrators. Offline backups, ideally stored elsewhere, are especially critical to protecting data through disaster recovery. Also Read: Top Cloud Security Companies & Tools.

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