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The Necessity of Data Security: Recapping the 2019 Thales Data Security Summit

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Digital transformation is driving IT modernization, IoT, and cloud migrations at a record pace in the federal government. The ability to narrow the gap between taking advantage of digital transformation without compromising security was a reoccurring theme at our 2019 annual Data Security Summit on May 1. are discovered.

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RSAC insights: Introducing ‘CWPP’ and ‘CSPM,’ new frameworks to secure cloud infrastructure

The Last Watchdog

In pulling off that milestone hack, Paige Thompson took advantage of CapOne’s lack of focus on cloud security as the banking giant rushed headlong into leveraging Amazon Web Services. Luckily, Thompson left an easy trail for the FBI to follow and affect her arrest in August 2019. Here are the key takeaways: Cloud migration risks.

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The Changing Face of Data Security in Federal Government

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

I recently had the pleasure of sharing some industry insights from our 2019 Data Threat Report-Federal Edition on Cyberwire’s Daily Podcast –specifically addressing the gap in security responsibility many federal agencies face today as they move tremendous amounts of sensitive data into multicloud environments.

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It is Microsoft vs Dell and IBM after SolarWinds hack

CyberSecurity Insiders

In November 2020, Security firm FireEye revealed that a Russian intelligence funded hacking group had infiltrated the computer networks of several organizations and was indulging in several espionage related tactics since 2019.

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IoT and Quantum Computing’s Impact on the Federal Government

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

As government agencies get back to work after summer barbeques, family vacations and once-in-a-lifetime getaways, the focus is on the priorities for the rest of 2019. The focus on the rest of 2019 and looking ahead to 2020 was very clear when I attended two recent industry events. In fact, the U.S.

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SPOTLIGHT: Women in Cybersecurity

McAfee

The RSA Conference USA 2019 held in San Francisco — which is the world’s largest cybersecurity event with more than 40,000 people and 740 speakers — is a decent measuring stick for representation of women in this field. During her first few years at Booz Allen, she supported technology, innovation and risk analysis initiatives across U.S.

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MY TAKE: CASBs help companies meet ‘shared responsibility’ for complex, rising cloud risks

The Last Watchdog

We met at Black Hat 2019 and had a wide ranging discussion about the complex challenges companies face meeting their end of the security burden, while using cloud services. Still, the added complexities of cloud migration translated into fresh tiers of wide-open attack vectors.

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