Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

South Africa’s Information Regulator is expected to put the Act into force in the second half of 2018. The drivers for enhanced data security include the proliferation of new technology platforms to create, transmit, analyze and otherwise manage data. Encrypt Everything. In other words, keep reading. More data, more risk.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 4, 2018

Whether it be products and services or even entirely new business models, we are seeing rapid advances in new and disruptive technologies. You’re more inclined to remain a lifelong customer through the frictionless convenience and impressed by the technological advances a coffee company (albeit a very successful global one) has leveraged.

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Spinone

MARCH 10, 2019

There are constantly new headlines, blog posts, statistics, and other information pointing to the fact that security breaches, malware, ransomware, data leak events, phishing and other security concerns are not going away. Data is driving business for most organizations who utilize technology to carry out normal business operations.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

The historic amount of coverage that data breaches have produced in 2018 has exposed executives and consumers to the importance of security, like no year before. However, in an attempt to be “better” many organizations have leaned heavily on emerging technologies such as cloud, blockchain and IoT – aka digital transformation.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 11, 2018

According to the 2018 Thales Data Threat Report , two in five global healthcare organisations (39%) experienced a data breach in the last year, and that’s using today’s relatively modest and well-understood web systems. There must be no question at any point over the integrity of the data or the medical device itself.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 5, 2018

Key Findings from the 2018 Global Encryption Trends Study. No core technologies are more fundamental to data protection than encryption and key management. For example: 43% of respondents report that their organization has an encryption strategy applied consistently across their enterprise.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 24, 2018

One thing all of these incidents have in common is how accessible the leaked information was after the breaches themselves occurred, something that could have been avoided had the data been encrypted. For more information on the Privacy Amendment Act 2017, please visit our dedicated landing page.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 24, 2018

Last week’s conference served as a forum for IT professionals from enterprises and public sectors to learn about effective cloud investment and strategy, while developing and executing technology projects. Well, most are being smart and protecting their data using one of the most powerful tools available: encryption.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The list includes Amazon (banned in 2018), Google (2018), Microsoft (2022), and Cloudflare (2015). As I explained in the blog DNS hijacks: what to look for , DNS is the phonebook of the internet to the effect that the input is a name and the output is a number. They are also known as content distribution networks.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

As a tried and tested foundational technology, PKIs provide the framework to manage digital certificates for people, machine, and device credentialing. Thales eSecurity’s 2018 Global PKI Trends Study , revealed increased reliance on PKIs as a core enterprise asset and root of trust.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 19, 2018

Another example of back to the basics was how Gartner Research Directors Gorka Sadowski and Pete Shoard took us through the State of the Threat Landscape, 2018 (see chart below). We all know code signing is an easy and valuable way to limit exposure, but it has to be enforced either by process or technology.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Facebook was very lucky, indeed, that its misdeeds happened before May 25, 2018. According to research by one law firm, pre-GDPR regulatory fines had almost doubled , on average, between 2017 and 2018, up from £73,191 to £146,412. Heathrow Airport was fined £120,000 when it lost a USB stick containing non-encrypted and sensitive data.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2023

Government Accountability Office in 2020 about increasing risk due to connected aircraft technology developments. So watch out for weak encryption protocols, insufficient network segregation, or insecure user authentication mechanisms. There was another warning from the U.S. And those incidents may only be increasing.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 4, 2022

According to Forbes, “the first half of 2018 was marked by an increase in API-related data breaches, with the 10 largest companies reporting the loss of 63 million personal records.” However, in recent years, we can see that SMBs are increasingly using cloud-based services to manage many areas of their information technology.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 1, 2018

Around the world, enterprises are anxious about May 25, 2018, the day enforcement begins for the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We at Thales have blogged about the GDPR , its global impact, reach, and penalties. This shows a rapid adoption of an only recently commercialized technology.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 31, 2018

According to our 2018 Global Data Threat Report , 67% of enterprises have been breached, with that percentage rate growing every year. Just a few years ago the network perimeter were the four walls surrounding the corporate enterprise, with the emergence of these transformative technologies the perimeter has become dynamic and ever changing.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

In previous years, we have discussed the efforts of businesses to digitally transform their processes to maintain or gain a competitive advantage and many of these transformative technologies involves moving to the cloud. Sage advice: encrypt everything. We are living in a multi-cloud world.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2019

In September 2018, a report published by Citizen Lab revealed that the NSO Pegasus spyware was used against targets across 45 countries worldwide. “Unable to breakWhatsApp’s end-to-end encryption, Defendants developed their malware in order to access messagesand other communications after they were decrypted on Target Devices.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 22, 2020

New EU restrictions could force companies to change data transfer practices and adopt more advanced data encryption methods. The most sweeping and aggressive regulation, the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), went into full force in May 2018. Tue, 12/22/2020 - 10:08. In the Dec. In the Dec.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 16, 2018

In doing this, though, they must ask themselves if they have the proper access controls, data management approaches, and encryption installed. You can also visit us at this year’s RSA Conference, San Francisco, April 16-20, 2018, North Expo Booth #3425, Moscone Center. If they don’t, they are at risk of becoming the next headline.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Organisations are finding themselves under increasing pressure from their boards, all keen on moving their businesses forward technologically, to deliver the solutions and services they need to remain competitive in an increasingly digital world. It’s for this reason then, that most businesses are looking at encryption as a strategy.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 18, 2018

The more that new technologies like cloud, big data, Internet of Things (IoT) and mobile payments are used to provide an exceptional customer experience, the bigger the cybersecurity challenge. retailers are implementing encryption in the cloud today. retailers are planning to implement database and file encryption this year.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 5, 2018

( Originally posted to CenturyLink’s blog on November 10 ). One compliance mandate with teeth, GDPR , is set to go into effect in May 2018 – and its list of requirements (which includes breach notification within 72 hours of occurrence and fines to organizations set at €20M or 4% of annuals revenues) is stringent.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2018

At a first sight, the office document had an encrypted content available on OleObj.1 Those objects are real Encrypted Ole Objects where the Encrypted payload sits on “EncryptedPackage” section and information on how to decrypt it are available on “EncryptionInfo” xml descriptor. Stage1: Encrypted Content.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 5, 2018

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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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 3, 2019

However, there has to be a more thorough focus on security in multiple clouds environments so encryption with sophisticated multi-cloud key management is a must-have solution. One of our recent blogs highlights tips to help with selecting and confirming trust in your third-party vendors, and this rings true now more than ever.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

As The 2018 Thales Global Data Threat Report notes, “The top Big Data security issue is that sensitive data can be anywhere – and therefore everywhere – a concern expressed by 34% of global and U.S. Moreover, encryption keys must be protected and managed in a trusted manner for security and compliance with regulations. respondents.”.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 23, 2018

Today, organizations are rapidly adopting cloud technology. According to Data Threat Report for 2018 , the majority of businesses don’t just operate in one cloud environment in a single location, but multiple. But with widespread enterprise adoption of cloud technologies, come very real data security risks.

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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. Breaking barriers with encryption. national security at risk. The report also reveals that the U.S.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 21, 2023

Why Sucessful Central Bank Digital Currencies require Partnership enagement madhav Thu, 06/22/2023 - 06:23 In Part 1 of this blog series we explored what CBDC, or Central Bank Digital Currencies are, and why they are important. Development’ and ‘breakthrough’ are handled by technology stakeholders.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 21, 2019

In a blog post today, Avast said it detected and addressed a breach lasting between May and October 2019 that appeared to target users of its CCleaner application, a popular Microsoft Windows cleanup and repair utility. . million downloads of the corrupt CCleaner version.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 22, 2023

Malwarebytes Privacy VPN can encrypt your connection when using public WiFi, and it can block companies and websites from seeing your IP address and location to identify who you are, where you live, or what you’re doing on the Internet. Technology and Marketing Law Blog, run by Eric Goldman. Tune in today. Alec Muffett.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 8, 2019

My home state, California had 259 formally reported breaches in 2018 alone! You can learn a little more about what FAIR and the Open Group are doing in this regard in one of my previous blogs ). appeared first on Data Security Blog | Thales eSecurity. How can this be such a problem in this day and age? 43 WAP 2017, Pa.,

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 8, 2022

values associated with cyberspace, digital technologies, and digital policy,” according to the the State Department announcement. The Trump administration had proposed a unified bureau to streamline the diplomatic structure back in 2018. Encryption Is Critical in New Executive Order to Improve National Cybersecurity. UTM Medium.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Brian Krebs is an independent investigative reporter known for his coverage of technology, malware , data breaches , and cybercrime developments. Krebs wrote for The Washington Post between 1995 and 2009 before launching his current blog KrebsOnSecurity.com. — Jack Daniel (@jack_daniel) October 10, 2018.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

This blog post contains excerpts from those reports. ASMCrypt As mentioned in our previous blog post , we monitor many underground forums. After selecting all the desired options and pressing the build button, the application creates an encrypted blob hidden inside a.png file.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

For example, in their terms and conditions, assure customers that all their personal data will be tokenized or encrypted so that in the event of a breach, their data will remain protected. As technology continues to be embedded into nearly every facet of our daily lives, a brands’ success is contingent on keeping customer data secure.

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