Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Black Friday and Cyber Monday, both hailed as the epitome of shopping extravagance, are also synonymous with a heightened risk of cyberattacks on retail platforms. It becomes, therefore, essential for retailers to consider the fresh insights provided by the Thales 2023 Data Threat Report – Financial Services Edition.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 18, 2024

How do we gauge how risky it is and how do we ensure that future APIs are not putting the enterprise at risk? This can not be done without major risk unless organizations have created and mandated corporate standards on what a "good" API actually is from a security standpoint. Defining and sharing what good means.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 6, 2024

Nearly one-third (28%) of all DDoS attacks on APIs focus on financial services organizations, the most targeted industry for this type of attack. With an average of 613 APIs per organization, deprecated endpoints or Broken Object Level Authorization (BOLA) heighten the potential risks facing business.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

According to the 2022 Thales Data Threat Report – Financial Services Edition , 52% of U.S. financial services organizations report that they have experienced a data breach in the past. Secure data storage is closely related to encryption and key management. million, second only to healthcare. Requirement 12.5

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 15, 2018

In a move to blanket the Internet with encrypted website traffic, Google is moving forward with its insistence that straggling website publishers adopt HTTPS Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). It’s true that most financial services and big-name shopping websites have long ago moved to HTTPS. Related: How PKI can secure IoT.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 26, 2021

Criminals use personal and financial data to impersonate customers and add apparent authenticity to a scam. Coupled with the fact that only about half of all vulnerabilities in the retail industry are getting patched within the first quarter after discovery, it is easy to understand the risks of being defraud by criminals.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 6, 2024

Nearly one-third (28%) of all DDoS attacks on APIs focus on financial services organizations, the most targeted industry for this type of attack. With an average of 613 APIs per organization, deprecated endpoints or Broken Object Level Authorization (BOLA) heighten the potential risks facing business.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 10, 2022

The financial services ecosystem has evolved tremendously over the past few years driven by a surge in the adoption of digital payments. Security is paramount; digital payments are not only authorized but they must be authenticated as well. How Can We Secure The Future of Digital Payments? Tue, 01/11/2022 - 06:35.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 11, 2023

Throughout 2022, Thales hosted more than 40 webinars on a wide variety of cybersecurity topics, including, cloud security, data sovereignty, compliance, data threat trends, and rethinking approaches to role-based authentication. Security & Compliance for SAP Data in Financial Services.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 31, 2023

Therefore, the FFIEC provides guidance on financial regulations and best practices for federal supervisory agencies, as well as helping them develop exam policies for banks, savings associations, credit unions, thrifts, and other financial institutions.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Public cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) may be less vulnerable than traditional data centers, but that doesn’t mean it’s without its own set of risks. Does the provider encrypt data while in transit and at rest? What authentication methods does the provider support? What is cloud security?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 2, 2021

Cloud service providers have expanded their offerings into industry-specific domains. AWS Financial Services and Azure for Financial Services are good examples of how cloud players are trying to entice industries to move more essential business functions to cloud platforms for enhanced security and growth.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2023

These challenges are intensified in industries that handle large volumes of sensitive data under stringent regulations , such as financial services, healthcare, and government sectors. By recognizing the significance of data sovereignty, businesses can take measures to enhance data security and control, mitigating these risks.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Similarly, in financial services and banking, businesses have been able to create new payment, customer interaction and trading services built upon technologies such as biometric verification , cloud computing and artificial intelligence. Interested and want to learn more?

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2022

. “AvosLocker is a Ransomware as a Service (RaaS) affiliate-based group that has targeted victims across multiple critical infrastructure sectors in the United States including, but not limited to, the Financial Services, Critical Manufacturing, and Government Facilities sectors. Disable unused ports. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Like other ransomware groups, its threat actors use double extortion tactics, predominantly targeting organizations in the US in five critical infrastructure sectors: critical manufacturing, financial services, government facilities, healthcare and public health, and information technology. Mitigating Cuba ransomware attacks.

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SC Magazine

JULY 2, 2021

Supples spoke to SC Media in an interview alongside EBCS Director David Maimon, who said his research team would study the modus operandi of cybercriminals operating on the dark net and other encrypted channels, as well as the different types of fraud exist across various platforms – and how they evolve. “[We

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Centraleyes

MAY 23, 2024

Benefits of Data Access and Governance Strong data access governance benefits firms in various industries, including financial services, retail, and healthcare. Limiting data access to only those who require it lowers the danger of a cyberattack and simplifies risk mitigation by reducing the attack surface.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The technology industry has met the dramatic rise in ransomware and other cyber attacks with an impressive set of tools to help companies mitigate the risks. Healthcare and public health, financial services, and IT organizations are frequent targets, although businesses of all sizes can fall victim to these schemes.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 3, 2021

Over time, members of a workforce at organizations accumulate access to systems and services they may need to do their job, execute a project or interact with their co-workers. We also can’t forget standing administrative privileges and service accounts used by systems, services, and things.

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NetSpi Executives

APRIL 27, 2024

Logins without multi-factor authentication. terminal services, virtual private networks (VPNs), and remote desktops—often use weak passwords and do not require MFA. In addition to encrypting data and holding it hostage, ransomware attackers also upload valuable data to other systems on the internet.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 4, 2022

Companies and executives must understand the ever-changing cybersecurity threat landscape in a high-risk digital environment. It's slightly different from a standard ransomware attack—encrypting a user's files is a secondary concern. The most frequent targets of leakware are hospitals, law firms, and financial services organizations.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2023

Data breaches caused by weak security measures and procedures result in severe monetary losses, erosion of clients’ trust, and irreversible reputation damage to organizations in the healthcare, financial services, technology, and retail industries, as well as government and public sector entities. What Are Data Breaches?

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Duo's Security Blog

JULY 6, 2021

The eight areas are: Application Control Patch Applications Configure Microsoft Office Macro Settings User Application Hardening Restrict Administrative Privileges Patch Operating Systems Multi Factor Authentication Daily Backups Each area comes with guidance to improve maturity of the area.

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Mobile payment platforms, like Apple Pay and Google Pay, use advanced technology, like fingerprint authentication and tokenization (in which credit card account numbers are replaced by randomly generated numbers) to provide brick-and-mortar shoppers with an added layer of security. SSLs ensure all data is encrypted. Look for the lock.

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Centraleyes

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Established by the main major credit card financial companies back in 2004 (American Express, Discover Financial Services, JCB International, Mastercard and Visa), the standard has evolved over the years and is currently at version 4.0. Important Note: PCI DSS current version, Version 3.2.1, in March of 2024.

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LRQA Nettitude Labs

JULY 5, 2023

There are currently conflicting or uncoordinated requirements from regulators which creates unnecessary burdens and that regulatory gaps may leave risks unmitigated, harming public trust and slowing AI adoption. The list was introduced with the goal of educating developers, and organizations about the potential threats that may arise in ML.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

Cyber criminals may damage, destroy, steal, encrypt, expose, or leak data as well as cause harm to a system. Encrypted threats spiked 167%, ransomware increased 105%, and 5.4 In May, cybersecurity researchers revealed that ransomware attacks are increasing their aggressive approach by destroying data instead of encrypting it.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

With risks so high, what is the hold up on implementing security? This is particularly true when it comes to authenticating and managing the identity of blockchain users and devices. A number of their industry partners, including IBM, Oracle, financial service providers, and others, use Hyperledger Fabric.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 24, 2022

Damages: charges from the New York State Department Financial Services (NYDFS). Summary: This data breach was unique in the sense that there was not a breach in the company's servers, but an authentication error, meaning no authentication was required to view documents. Who attacked: no attacker. and Vietnam. Damages: $1.1

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 26, 2021

approach in that the attackers copy and exfiltrate a company’s data just prior to encrypting it. This vulnerability allows an attacker to make an untrusted connection to Exchange server port 443, allowing them to send arbitrary HTTP requests and authenticate as the Exchange server. REvil uses the Ransomware 2.0

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 19, 2022

million downloads per day and 9,400 stars on Git Hub, cert-manager protects cloud native workloads with TLS encryption and provides critical security for clusters. 509 certificates to authenticate and secure communication between Kubernetes workloads, containers, clusters and microservices. With over 1.5 Australia and South Africa.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 24, 2021

Forex trading may be dominated by banks and global financial services but, thanks to the Internet, the average person can today dabble directly in forex, securities and commodities trading. Despite containing very sensitive financial data, the server was left open without any password protection or encryption.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Damages: charges from the New York State Department Financial Services (NYDFS). Summary: This data breach was unique in the sense that there was not a breach in the company's servers, but an authentication error, meaning no authentication was required to view documents. Who attacked: no attacker. Damages: $1.1

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Data security professionals also make ambitious plans, but implementation rates are too low – a key finding in the 2019 Thales Data Threat Report-Financial Services Edition. Here’s a look at four common issues highlighted in the 2019 Thales Data Threat Report-Financial Services Edition and tips for overcoming them.

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DoublePulsar

DECEMBER 3, 2023

What it means — CitrixBleed ransomware group woes grow as over 60 credit unions, hospitals, financial services and more breached in US. This one was, to me, clearly going to be a major issue as it allowed the bypass of multi-factor authentication controls, it didn’t log exploitation and it was easy to exploit. Their response?

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 19, 2022

To use a service, we enter our user name and a password. But this method of authentication is flawed; either hashed or hashed and salted, usernames and passwords can still be stolen and reused. So um, yeah, is up sometimes risk of falling into a black hole of, of doom, know that there's a lack of ownership. everything online.

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