SecureWorld News

JUNE 15, 2024

Over the last few years, the number of data breaches in the healthcare industry has gradually increased. While every industry holds a wealth of sensitive information, the healthcare industry is particularly vulnerable because it deals with highly personal and confidential data.

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Centraleyes

APRIL 8, 2024

High-profile data breaches have made data protection and privacy a hot subject. Hackers use more sophisticated methods to break network defenses and steal sensitive data on a large scale. Malicious actors target personal data because of its value. The consequences of data breaches go beyond financial impact.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 10, 2023

The framework also supports the implementation of security concepts such as encryption, digital signatures, and authentication. PKI is composed of these key components: Public and private keys : The public key is used for encryption, and the corresponding private key is for decryption. 

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 4, 2022

A CISA advisory highlights that, “MFA is one of the most important cybersecurity practices to reduce the risk of intrusions—according to industry research, users who enable MFA are up to 99% less likely to have an account compromised.”. Quantitative data on human cybersecurity awareness.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 7, 2023

Threats are also growing, with 40 percent of data breaches involving stolen credentials, according to the 2022 Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report. There have been reports of hackers leveraging ChatGPT to generate malware and encryption scripts, which can significantly accelerate cyberattacks.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

With 52% of security breaches being caused by human error , it is important to recognize that one of your employees could inadvertently be the cause of your company’s next data breach. Educating your employees is key to preventing a breach, so here are some best practices to get the ball rolling: 1.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 17, 2022

These issues will often arise when a company fails to ensure proper security measures and when companies don’t process sensitive data properly. You would be surprised that only in the United States, 67% of users don’t actually even know about any data privacy rules. . Industry-focused data.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Data lineage allows organizations to: Identify Data Anomalies: By tracing data back to its source, organizations can spot discrepancies and errors, enabling them to rectify issues at the root. Enhance Data Governance: Data lineage provides visibility into data ownership and responsibility.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 15, 2024

TABLE OF CONTENTS Understanding HIPAA Mental health apps collect a wealth of personal information Information collection extends past user disclosure Mental health apps may share your information with third parties Can users protect their privacy while using mental health apps?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 25, 2018

First – The breaches. It’s probably no surprise to anyone reading this that organizations are experiencing record data breaches; we hear about the breaches almost daily even in mainstream media. What we capture as part of our data is a bit different, however. The failure to adopt modern data security methods.

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Adam Levin

JULY 28, 2020

If you find your personal email account bombarded with unwanted marketing emails, there’s a good chance your account was compromised in a breach. Your email address could present the greatest liability when it comes to cybersecurity and privacy. 1 – Create a Burner Account. A Killer App? 2 Connect the Dots.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 6, 2018

Some impact specific countries while others focus on individual industries, but each regulation being enforced is an indication that companies must be more accountable when it comes to how they manage data privacy and people’s data or they risk having to pay large fines. The only true way to protect data is to encrypt it.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 22, 2021

China’s new data privacy law just went into effect in November 2021. China’s Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL) is legislation that aims to outline and protect appropriate uses of personal data. Also Read: China’s Data Privacy Law Poses Challenge for International Companies. Compliance Overview.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 29, 2022

Earmarked by the FBI as a particular threat to the financial service industry just over a year ago, the increase of internet traffic, data breaches and API usage all contribute to the perfect conditions for successful credential stuffing attacks. You can’t access an account with recycled credentials if there aren’t any.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 8, 2023

Zero trust emphasizes the importance of micro-segmentation, multi-factor authentication, encryption, and monitoring of user behavior to prevent lateral movement within the network and detect and respond to potential threats in real time. Resurgence in Popularity In recent years, zero trust has gained renewed popularity due to several factors.

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Security Affairs

MAY 12, 2021

Businesses must ensure that these entities understand and respect the consumers’ data rights and do not use the data in any manner inconsistent with the purpose for which it was originally collected. Data breaches and other threats. The culprit gained access to sensitive data of 11.9 Privacy Violations.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 1, 2018

The cyber community is often reminded of past events such as large-scale data breaches and vicious cyberattacks that caused mass destruction and caught the publics’ attention. Organizations are storing their data in more places now than ever, and by default, they are creating new attack surfaces.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

. “The security flaw was tied, ironically, to a tool Instagram introduced in April to let users see how much of their personal data the site had collected. The company informed users that if they had used the “download your data” tool, their passwords were accidentally exposed because they were included in the URL.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 16, 2019

citizen, I am troubled that one of my government agencies did not do what was necessary to protect the personal data of my fellow citizens. Data privacy is a right and, though this may seem old fashioned, I expect my government agencies to defend my rights, not to disregard them. The Right to Secure PII and PHI.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 20, 2023

In the wake of a leaked draft of the decision, Federal legislators introduced a new, targeted data privacy bill to protect reproductive health data. Immediately following the decision, countless individuals dropped their current period-tracking apps in search for another app that would promise to better protect their data.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Since 2004, there have been 11,000 US data breaches. These breaches left contact information, account passwords, credit card numbers, private photos, and more exposed. Also Read : Top Threat Intelligence Platforms (TIP) for 2021. Identify cloud bucket vulnerabilities.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 18, 2023

While IaaS gives complete control and accountability, PaaS strikes a compromise between control and simplicity, and SaaS provides a more hands-off approach with the provider handling the majority of security duties. Data Protection Users must employ encryption for data in transit and at rest.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 5, 2023

Behind the majority of these attacks: the ransomware gang known as Vice Society , a Russian-based group linked to multiple K–12 data breaches, including LA Unified, the second-largest school district in the nation. Secure data storage is also a requirement of FERPA.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Cybercriminals continued targeting gamers’ accounts filled with valuable in-game items or giving access to games on several devices, and often used in-game currency to lure victims to participate in their scams. Students use these tools in their hobbies and homework, and entrust their mental health to ChatGPT-like bots.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 12, 2018

Read Julie’s blog “ Roadmap for the Data Gold Rush: Maintaining Qualitative Data in the IoT Environment ” to get the complete picture of this important topic and learn more about the public key infrastructure (PKI) required to make device credentialing and data encryption mechanisms possible.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 6, 2018

Some smaller companies have even gone out of business as the result of a data breach. having been breached at some point in the past. Every data privacy regulation we’ve seen calls for a similar set of best practices. Encryption of data at rest and in motion. The Threat Level Is Rising.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Control Inbound and Outbound Traffic: Configuring firewall rules to manage both incoming and outgoing traffic is an important defense against cyber threats, preventing unauthorized access and malicious software from stealing data. Scheduled Backups: Have a regular, fixed schedule for backing up your data.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Data Breaches How they occur: Unauthorized access to sensitive data can happen as a result of vulnerabilities and misconfigurations such as flawed access permissions or unprotected data and instances. Encrypt Sensitive Data: Enable data encryption in transit and at rest and ensure safe key management.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 21, 2022

At the same time – in fact, as a direct result of data’s central importance – more adversaries are working harder and finding more nefarious ways to steal or otherwise compromise your data. As just one measure, the number of data breaches in the first nine months of 2021 exceeded all those in 2020, a new record.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Encrypts critical email exchanges to protect the security of information during transmission. Offers the ability to encrypt emails to protect private correspondence. Implements data loss prevention (DLP) to prevent accidental or intentional data leakage. Effective data loss prevention capabilities.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Account Provisioning and Deprovisioning: IAM controls the creation, modification, and removal of user accounts. Data security Encryption: Data encryption ensures that even if unauthorized parties gain access to data, they cannot understand or use it without the proper decryption keys.

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Centraleyes

MAY 23, 2024

Logging and Audit Trail: Establishing systems to track and register user behaviors and creating an audit trail for accountability are essential steps in establishing accountability. They should also ensure that the company is honest in describing its data collection and access procedures to customers and regulators if needed.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 9, 2024

This framework guarantees that appropriate authentication measures, encryption techniques, data retention policies, and backup procedures are in place. Common threats include misconfigurations, cross-site scripting attacks, and data breaches. Is data encrypted in transit and at rest?

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

With cyberattacks and data breaches on the rise, it's become especially important for brands to ensure their assets are sufficiently safeguarded, particularly as more of their infrastructure migrates to support remote systems to cloud-based platforms and their services become more reliant on the internet.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 13, 2022

In an age of strong data privacy laws like GDPR and CCPA , data loss prevention (DLP) technology is becoming a critically important IT security tool. Every organization has data, and some of that data is more sensitive than others. No longer is enterprise data confined to on-premises deployment.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 11, 2022

Databricks recommends a proactive approach and deleting EU PII during data ingestion because the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) allows penalties up to 20 million Euro or higher to be levied against violators. Also read: Security Compliance & Data Privacy Regulations. Data Lake Isolation.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 28, 2023

CipherTrust Data Security Platform as-a-Service Helps Control and Secure Your Critical Data madhav Thu, 06/29/2023 - 05:59 Many organizations are searching for ways to simplify their data security operations and reduce the impact of external threats. Sign up for a DPoD Marketplace account.

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