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MY TAKE: How ‘credential stuffing’ and ‘account takeovers’ are leveraging Big Data, automation

The Last Watchdog

Related: Cyber risks spinning out of IoT Credential stuffing and account takeovers – which take full advantage of Big Data, high-velocity software, and automation – inundated the internet in massive surges in 2018 and the first half of 2019, according to multiple reports. Hackers count on it.

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Federal cybersecurity: breaking down the barriers to adoption

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

These vulnerabilities can span from limited use of data encryption to the abuse of privileged user policies. However, modernization and transformative technologies are creating new vulnerabilities resulting in data breaches. Our 2019 federal report found that 78% of respondents were using sensitive data in a cloud environment.

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The Future of Payments Security

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Even when banking organizations are upgrading security posture to safeguard sensitive financial information, hackers can steal the data intelligently by tying known vulnerabilities together, and making it turn out to be a potential attack. The stolen data is used both to commit fraud directly and indirectly. Big Data and EMV 3DS.

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MY TAKE: Six-figure GDPR privacy fines reinforce business case for advanced SIEM, UEBA tools

The Last Watchdog

We spoke at Black Hat USA 2019. Meanwhile, some 42% of SOC analysts say it can take months or years to fully resolve actual breaches. IBM’s recent data breach study shows how the cost of a data breach has risen 12% over the past five years and now costs $3.92 million, on average.

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

The Last Watchdog

We spoke at Black Hat USA 2019. At the same time, digital transformation has redoubled the complexity of company networks, catapulting us from Big Data to Very Big Data. However, for every step forward, in terms of improved sharing, organizations got shoved two steps back by the relentless rising tide of Big Data.

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NEW TECH: LogicHub introduces ‘virtualized’ security analysts to help elevate SOAR

The Last Watchdog

I had the chance to meet with him again at Black Hat 2019 in Las Vegas. 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.

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Is Your Data Safe in the Cloud?

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

As organizations move more of their sensitive data to cloud platforms for the efficiency, flexibility and scalability that it promises, security and control continue to be a significant obstacle to this adoption.