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Q&A: The lesser role VPNs now play for enterprises, SMBs — in a post-pandemic world

The Last Watchdog

VPNs encrypt data streams and protect endpoints from unauthorized access, essentially by requiring all network communications to flow over a secured pipe. LW: What about SMBs; how does a traditional VPN service fit as cloud migration deepens? Related: Deploying human sensors.

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The Changing Face of Data Security in Federal Government

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

With details from our report, I also highlighted how demand for modernization, mobile payments, IoT, cloud migration and cost savings is driving the push for new technologies while increasing opportunities for threats. They have to enforce these controls that are defined by them by encrypting the data.”.

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Use cases of secure IoT deployment

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

In our previous blog post , we discussed the challenges for securing IoT deployments, and how businesses and consumers benefit from authenticating and validating IoT software and firmware updates. If the authentication process isn’t secure enough, hackers could gain access to the user’s account and, from there, get their hands on the vehicle.

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The Necessity of Data Security: Recapping the 2019 Thales Data Security Summit

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Digital transformation is driving IT modernization, IoT, and cloud migrations at a record pace in the federal government. IT modernization and cloud migrations of legacy systems are already putting our infrastructures and application stacks in a much stronger security posture. are discovered.

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Q&A: Sophos poll shows how attackers are taking advantage of cloud migration to wreak havoc

The Last Watchdog

Cloud migration, obviously, is here to stay. But there’s no doubt that the exodus to a much greater dependency on hybrid cloud and multi-cloud resources – Infrastructure-as-a-Service ( IaaS ) and Platforms-as-a-Service ( PaaS ) – is in full swing. This is true of the U.S. and other regions as well.

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Why Are We Still Separating Credential Management and Machine Identity Management?

Security Boulevard

A third (33%) of respondents said they use three or more authentication access management tools. Machine identities validate the authenticity of non-human entities connected to corporate networks. For example, cyber criminals can leverage machine identities to evade detection by hiding in encrypted traffic.

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Unlocking the Cloud: Microsoft and Thales Spearhead Passwordless & MFA for Organizations moving to Microsoft 365.

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Crucially, this award recognizes the teamwork carried out over several years by Microsoft and Thales to help organizations secure their identities when migrating to the cloud. Multi-Factor Authentication: the mandatory first step for organizations moving to the cloud. markets.