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Interview with the Head of the NSA’s Research Directorate

Schneier on Security

MIT Technology Review published an interview with Gil Herrera, the new head of the NSA’s Research Directorate. ” Making sense of vast stores of unclear, often stolen data in hundreds of languages and even more technical formats remains one of the directorate’s enduring tasks.

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Data-Centric Security and Big Data

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

As Cybersecurity continues to be heavily focused on solving the problem of attacks against software vulnerabilities and system access, one potential silver bullet in the data breach equation remains out of the limelight. The Big Data Conundrum. Perhaps, it should.

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The Essential Guide to Radio Frequency Penetration Testing

Pen Test

The rapid advancement of technology has woven a complex fabric of wireless networks, each interwoven with vulnerabilities waiting to be exposed. It endeavors to elucidate the underlying methodology, a comprehensive array of tools employed, and the typical vulnerabilities that security experts strategically target (Anderson & White, 2017).

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MY TAKE: How advanced automation of threat intel sharing has quickened incident response

The Last Watchdog

At the same time, digital transformation has redoubled the complexity of company networks, catapulting us from Big Data to Very Big Data. Consider that 90% of the data that exists in the world was created in two years — 2017 and 2018 — and that our digital universe is on track to swell from 3.2

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How to Prepare for the Future of Healthcare Digital Security

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

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. Almost all (96%) of U.S.

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Securing the future of payments – what does 2018 have in store?

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Thanks to heightened consumer confidence, a rise in proximity payments adoption and ongoing developments in biometrics, the payments industry continued to undergo digital transformation throughout 2017. While this is in no way a new or ground-breaking revelation, a customer-centric business model will certainly be a key differentiator.

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Cloud Backup and Recovery: What to Expect in 2018

Spinone

With the technologies in cloud computing moving so fast, and adoption rates increasing rapidly, we can expect to see some exciting developments in 2017. Let’s have a look at what’s in store for 2017: 1. As the increased success of businesses using this strategy becomes clear, others are likely to follow.

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