The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2019

The EU slammed the UK airline with a $230 million fine , and then hammered the US hotel chain with a $125 million penalty – the first major fines under the EU’s toughened General Data Protection Regulation , which took effect May 25, 2018. Related: Will GDPR usher in new age of privacy? million, on average.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

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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Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2023

The end result of these types of cyber attacks are often highly public and damaging data breaches. 1 in 4 Americans reported that they would stop doing business with a company following a data breach, and 67% of consumers reported a loss of trust in an organization following a breach. What Are Data Breaches?

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

This skills deficit has been the top worry of IT pros for several years, according to tech consultancy ESG’s annual survey of IT pros; some 53% of the organizations participating in ESG’s 2018 -2019 poll reported a “problematic shortage” of cybersecurity skills. Digital transformation has only exacerbated this security skills gap.

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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. Two other key drivers are digital transformation and poor investments in IT security tools needed to protect 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

MARCH 5, 2018

In an effort to meet compliance requirements – and with an eye towards cutting costs – the healthcare industry has turned its attention towards embracing digitally transformative technologies, including cloud, big data, Internet of Things and containers. respondents reported using these technologies with sensitive data.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 11, 2022

In the ever-evolving fight against data loss , data breaches, and data theft in the 21st century, organizations worldwide have turned to a number of cybersecurity solutions, services, and software in an attempt to keep their data safe and secure from threats. Why Use Behavioral Analytics in Cybersecurity?

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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. 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. This had me asking a simple question – Why?

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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

JUNE 20, 2018

The urgency around data security is increasing. Over the years, the federal government has developed a wide range of cyber policies, programs and technologies, yet data breaches are occurring with increasing frequency. And the data environment only continues to grow more complex.

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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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Pen Test

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Its primary goal is to meticulously identify vulnerabilities inherent within wireless communication systems (Smith & Johnson, 2018). These regulations necessitate thorough assessments of wireless systems to ensure compliance and mitigate the risk of data breaches. References Ahmad, I. IEEE Access, 6, 12725-12738.

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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

JANUARY 25, 2018

This morning we announced, in tandem with our partner 451 Research, the Global Edition of the 2018 Thales Data Threat Report. It’s abundantly clear that medium to larger enterprises (the focus of the report and underlying survey) are finding it harder than ever to protect their sensitive data. First – The breaches.

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

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 24, 2018

to discuss the findings of the 2018 Thales Data Threat Report, Federal Edition. 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? This year’s report is especially relevant because it tells us federal agency data is under siege.

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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. — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) October 5, 2018. 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

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Findings from the 2018 Federal Edition of the Data Threat Report. So far in 2018, we’ve already seen a handful of government agency mishaps when it comes to security. Within the past year, 57% of federal respondents experienced a data breach. government agencies worldwide experienced a breach this past year.

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