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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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2019 Thales DTR: Global Edition: Facts that may surprise you

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

A few weeks ago, we issued the Global Edition of our 2019 Thales Data Threat Report, now in its seventh year. This year much of the emphasis within the results was on how digital transformation can put organizations’ sensitive data at risk. Let’s talk about breach rates first. The data bears this out.

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How to Accelerate Government Transformation by Reducing Risk, Complexity, and Cost

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

From smart cities and digital IDs to open government and better governance, the Cloud, Big Data, IoT and Artificial Intelligence have enabled a wide range of digital government initiatives. Big transformation of big government. Data Security. White the White House order may be the most famous, it is not alone.

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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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Why Data Visibility is Important for Security

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

The amount of data created is forecasted to grow and be spread in a wide diverse ecosystem: the cloud, on premises, in data lakes and big data. In addition, according to the “2020 Year End Report of Data Breach ” from QuickView, the number of records compromised in 2020 revealed a 141% increase compared to 2019.

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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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