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

The Last Watchdog

A pair of malicious activities have become a stunning example of digital transformation – unfortunately on the darknet. Using this technique, the criminal collects your leaked credentials (usually stolen in a data breach) and then applies them to a host of other accounts, hoping they unlock more. Hackers count on it.

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SHARING INTEL: Here’s why it has become so vital to prioritize the security-proofing of APIs

The Last Watchdog

The threat intelligence platforms and detection and response systems installed far and wide, in SMBs and large enterprises alike, simply are not doing a terrific job at accounting for how APIs are facilitating multi-staged network breaches. A startling 95% of API attacks happen on authenticated endpoints. Dearth of planning.

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Q&A: Here’s why it has become vital for companies to deter ‘machine-identity thieves’

The Last Watchdog

We’re undergoing digital transformation , ladies and gentlemen. And we’re in a nascent phase where clever advances are blossoming even as unprecedented data breaches arise in parallel. LW: Can you frame what’s going on with identities when it comes to digital transformation? Hudson: Sure. Hudson: Yes, exactly.

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

The Last Watchdog

They outlined why something called attribute-based encryption, or ABE, has emerged as the basis for a new form of agile cryptography that we will need in order to kick digital transformation into high gear. Data lakes continue to swell because each second of every day, every human, on average, is creating 1.7

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MY TAKE: For better or worse, machine-to-machine code connections now form much of the castle wall

The Last Watchdog

And in doing so, they’re embracing agile software deployments, which requires authentication and access privileges to be dispensed, on the fly, for each human-to-machine and machine-to-machine coding connection. This frenetic activity brings us cool new digital services, alright. And the solution seems obvious: Big Data.

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Securing the future of payments – what does 2018 have in store?

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Thanks to heightened consumer confidence, a rise in proximity payments adoption and ongoing developments in biometrics, the payments industry continued to undergo digital transformation throughout 2017. appeared first on Data Security Blog | Thales e-Security. Three-Domain Secure (3DS) 2.0

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Top 6 API Security Questions Answered

Security Boulevard

They enable organizations to supply the digital services that support everyday activities like shopping online, booking a holiday or using a banking app. The unprecedented growth of API usage across all industries in recent years has accelerated digital transformation and brought new API security challenges to light.