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The Role of Enhanced Visibility for Data Privacy and Security

Security Boulevard

Data is everywhere and growing rapidly. According to some estimates, people and systems create millions of terabytes of data every day, with unstructured data accounting for an estimated 80% of a company’s information.

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How Machine Learning Can Accelerate and Improve the Accuracy of Sensitive Data Classification

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Part of this process includes identifying where and how data is stored—on-premises, in third-party servers or in the cloud. While an organization might already know the location of structured data such as a primary customer database store, unstructured data (such as that found in stray files and emails) is more difficult to locate.

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CNA legal filings lift the curtain on a Phoenix CryptoLocker ransomware attack

Malwarebytes

Between March 5 and March 20, 2021, the threat actor conducted reconnaissance within CNA’s IT environment using legitimate tools and legitimate credentials to avoid detection and to establish persistence,” the company revealed.

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The Impacts of Data Loss on Your Organization

Security Affairs

Examples: Customer Personal Identifiable Information, transactional data, inventory records, and financial statements. Unstructured Data: Unstructured data, on the other hand, is characterized by its lack of organization and predefined format. Without adequate backups, the data they house can be lost forever.

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How to Keep Your Information Safe for Data Privacy Day 2020

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

By implementing this security control, organizations can protect all structured and unstructured data that’s found across their on-premises, virtual, public cloud and hybrid environments. A Streamlined Data Security Strategy. An organization’s digital security strategy would not be complete without encryption.

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Best 5 Privacy Management Tools for 2024

Centraleyes

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. They use this data to steal identities and access corporate accounts. The consequences of data breaches go beyond financial impact.

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The Evolution of SIEM: Where It’s Been and Where It is Going

CyberSecurity Insiders

Today, SIEM accounts for approximately $4.4 This is easy to understand as SIEM has evolved into the data store for cybersecurity data which has been exploding as the volume of data and number of alerts is growing exponentially. billion of total cybersecurity spending and is expected to increase to $6.4

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