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Organizations Struggle with Cloud Security in the Post Digital Transformation Era – Highlights from our 2020 Data Threat Report-Global Edition

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

2020 marks the launch of the Thales Data Threat Report-Global Edition for the seventh consecutive year. The 2020 Thales Data Threat Report-Global Edition indicates that we have reached a tipping point. Whatever the nature of the data stored in the cloud, it needs to be secured. Sage advice: encrypt everything.

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Cisco addresses critical issues in IP Phones and UCS Director

Security Affairs

The flaw, tracked as CVE-2020-3161, has been rated as a critical severity and received a CVSS score of 9.8. ” The CVE-2020-3161 vulnerability is caused by the improper validation of HTTP requests, an attacker could exploit the issue by sending a crafted HTTP request to the web server of the vulnerable IP Phones.

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How to protect healthcare and life-sciences data from a cyber attack pandemic

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

2020 was also the year when “ransomware” became a household name around the world, especially by the frequent attacks on healthcare facilities and the dire effects on critical care. It is estimated the cost of US healthcare ransomware attacks alone at $21 billion in 2020. But the threat is a lot more insidious.

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MY TAKE: Why monetizing data lakes will require applying ‘attribute-based’ access rules to encryption

The Last Watchdog

The amount of data in the world topped an astounding 59 zetabytes in 2020, much of it pooling in data lakes. We’ve barely scratched the surface of applying artificial intelligence and advanced data analytics to the raw data collecting in these gargantuan cloud-storage structures erected by Amazon, Microsoft and Google.

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Finalists: Best Emerging Technology

SC Magazine

CONTINUOUS ATTACK SURFACE TESTING Company: Bishop Fox Notable: Introduced in February 2020, the platform uncovers an organization’s digital footprint, identifying vulnerabilities in more categories that are undetectable by current commercial scanners and maintaining a detailed map of the entire attack surface.

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Financial Services Organizations Need to Adapt their Security Practices to the Shifting Environment

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Thu, 11/05/2020 - 06:52. Companies and organizations, whether in the public or in the private sector, are re-establishing their business in the era of information and data revolution. businesses are taking advantage of digital technologies like cloud, mobile, and IoT to digitally transform their operations. Labelled Industry 4.0,

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Win the connected and autonomous car race while protecting data privacy

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

According to ABI Research 41% of vehicles sold in 2020 are considered “connected,” and the number goes to 91% in the United States. Employing big data analytics to gather insights to capitalize on customer behavior, understand product performance, and predict failures. More data in more places means more risks.