Security Boulevard

MARCH 3, 2025

This is a news item roundup of privacy or privacy-related news items for 23 FEB 2025 - 1 MAR 2025. The UK will neither confirm nor deny that its killing encryption The Verge This is not US-related, but certainly important enough to follow as it may have ramifications in the US in the form of setting precedent.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Several key provisions of the amended regulations will take effect on November 1, 2024, with additional measures rolling out in 2025. Encrypt "non-public" data both at rest and in motion or use effective alternative compensating controls for information at rest if approved by the CISO in writing.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 19, 2025

Your Data, Your Responsibility: Securing Your Organization's Future in the Cloud madhav Tue, 05/20/2025 - 04:37 Cloud adoption has fundamentally changed the way businesses operate, offering scalability, agility, and cost efficiencies that were unimaginable just a decade ago.

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Digital Shadows

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Editors note: This report was authored by Kimberley Bromley, Hayden Evans, and Joseph Keyes. Today, were proud to present the ReliaQuest Annual Cyber-Threat Report: 2025. Now in its third year, this report offers a close look at the top cyber threats our customers faced throughout 2024.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 10, 2025

Why Data Sovereignty and Privacy Matter to You—Not Just Nations madhav Tue, 06/10/2025 - 10:17 It started with a well-meaning mistake. Data is encrypted before it enters the TEE and decrypted only within the TEE itself. Tokenization, format-preserving encryption (FPE), and data masking are key techniques in this approach.

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Data privacy Encryption Government Healthcare 62

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 7, 2025

Phishing-Resistant MFA: Why FIDO is Essential madhav Thu, 05/08/2025 - 04:47 Phishing attacks are one of the most pervasive and insidious threats, with businesses facing increasingly sophisticated and convincing attacks that exploit human error.

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Phishing Authentication Passwords Social Engineering 71

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Centralised, Scalable, Compliant: Keeping Your Data Safer with Enterprise Key Management madhav Tue, 02/18/2025 - 04:50 The rise of multi-cloud environments, hybrid infrastructures, and stricter regulatory requirements has made cryptographic key management a major priority for enterprises around the world.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

What 2025 HIPAA Changes Mean to You madhav Tue, 02/04/2025 - 04:49 Thales comprehensive Data Security Platform helps you be compliant with 2025 HIPAA changes. To compound issues, identity and encryption management complexity is a serious issue. 60% of healthcare respondents have five or more key management systems in use.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 7, 2025

Identity at a Crossroads: Why Existential Identity Matters madhav Tue, 04/08/2025 - 04:31 Imagine waking up one morning to find your digital identity compromised your accounts hijacked, your access revoked, and your data in someone elses hands. Are We Sacrificing Safety for Simplicity?

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Authentication Identity Theft Digital transformation Passwords 62

Security Boulevard

MAY 7, 2025

Thales Named an Overall Leader in 2025 KuppingerCole Leadership Compass for Enterprise Secrets Management madhav Thu, 05/08/2025 - 06:31 Were proud to share that Thales has been recognized as an Overall Leader in the 2025 KuppingerCole Leadership Compass for Enterprise Secrets Management.

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Digital Shadows

APRIL 8, 2025

Key Findings Between December 2024 and February 2025 (the reporting period), ReliaQuest analyzed customer incidents, detection trends, and threat actor behavior to reveal key attacker techniques and emerging malware trends. This method is highly effective because it takes advantage of the credibility of known senders.

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Hacker's King

DECEMBER 21, 2024

YOU MAY ALSO WANT TO READ ABOUT: WhatsApps New Year 2025 Update: Grab These 3 Festive Features Before Theyre Gone The Role of Generative AI in Cybersecurity Generative AI refers to artificial intelligence systems capable of creating content, such as images, text, and code, by learning patterns from data.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Several key provisions of the amended regulations will take effect on November 1, 2024, with additional measures rolling out in 2025. Encrypt "non-public" data both at rest and in motion or use effective alternative compensating controls for information at rest if approved by the CISO in writing.

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Financial Services Cybersecurity CISO Backups 72

eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

Cyber criminals may damage, destroy, steal, encrypt, expose, or leak data as well as cause harm to a system. The 2022 SonicWall Cyber Threat Report found that all types of cyberattacks increased in 2021. Encrypted threats spiked 167%, ransomware increased 105%, and 5.4 Ransomware. See the Top Rootkit Scanners.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

zettabytes (ZB) of data by 2025. In fact, according to the 2019 Thales Data Threat Report-Healthcare Edition , the healthcare industry experiences the highest rate of attack compared to any other industry studied. Additionally, they need to manage the encryption keys used by organizations to secure their smart products.

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IoT Risk Energy and Utilities Healthcare 122

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 16, 2024

Key recommendations for Financial Services to improve cybersecurity and resilience in multi-clouds madhav Wed, 01/17/2024 - 05:46 The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) will apply to the EU financial sector from 17 January 2025. In short, cyber shedding requires to encrypt data and control the encryption key separately in a KMS.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 28, 2025

May 28, 2025 - Lina Romero - Your Mobile Apps May Not Be as Secure as You Think Excerpt: Cybersecurity risks are too close for comfort. Recent data from the Global Mobile Threat Report reveals that our mobile phone applications are most likely exposing our data due to insecure practices such as API key hardcoding.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Just as you wouldn't feel comfortable if a shop left your credit card information on a sticky note, PCI DSS ensures that businesses treat your payment data with extra care, keeping it encrypted, well-protected, and out of reach from anyone who shouldn't have access to it. Key Dates The key deadline for PCI DSS 4.0 was retired.

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Financial Services Encryption Data breaches Cloud Migration 62

Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Just as you wouldn't feel comfortable if a shop left your credit card information on a sticky note, PCI DSS ensures that businesses treat your payment data with extra care, keeping it encrypted, well-protected, and out of reach from anyone who shouldn't have access to it. Key Dates The key deadline for PCI DSS 4.0 was retired.

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Encryption Financial Services Data breaches Cloud Migration 59

Security Boulevard

MAY 7, 2025

Phishing-Resistant MFA: Why FIDO is Essential madhav Thu, 05/08/2025 - 04:47 Phishing attacks are one of the most pervasive and insidious threats, with businesses facing increasingly sophisticated and convincing attacks that exploit human error.

Phishing 59

Phishing Authentication Passwords Social Engineering 59

Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2024: The Top Four Ways to Secure Our World madhav Tue, 10/01/2024 - 06:44 Cybersecurity Awareness Month is an international initiative that focuses on simple ways to protect ourselves, our families, and our businesses from online threats.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 13, 2024

This year, MarCom recognized the success of our Data Threat Report (DTR), which achieved nearly 800 media mentions, 295 million impressions, and more than 5 million in the sales pipeline. Check out the full report to find out why. Check out the full report to find out why. The year 2024 brought us remarkable achievements.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 13, 2024

This year, MarCom recognized the success of our Data Threat Report (DTR), which achieved nearly 800 media mentions, 295 million impressions, and more than 5 million in the sales pipeline. Check out the full report to find out why. The year 2024 brought us remarkable achievements.

InfoSec 52

InfoSec Authentication Marketing Data privacy 52

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2024: The Top Four Ways to Secure Our World madhav Tue, 10/01/2024 - 06:44 Cybersecurity Awareness Month is an international initiative that focuses on simple ways to protect ourselves, our families, and our businesses from online threats.

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Cybersecurity Passwords Password Management Phishing 62

SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

While the latter is more of a good thing, all of these are realities and none of the three will go away in 2025. We curated some predictions for the cybersecurity industry in 2025--some specific; some broad; some from practitioners; some from vendors--to get a pulse on what the cybersecurity community believes is coming in the New Year.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Gartner has projected that by 2025, more than 60% of organizations will move away from VPN and rely on ZTNA. Ninety-five percent of cybersecurity breaches are due to human error (Symantec Internet Security Threat Report). Every organization is dealing with the proliferation of increased application.

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