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Cybersecurity Risks in IoT and Fleet Management Systems

IT Security Guru

The arrival of the IoT has made fleet management systems very popular among organizations that have a fleet of vehicles as part of their operations. Nevertheless, the development of IoT and fleet management systems brings up issues with cybersecurity risks.

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How to Keep Your Information Safe for Data Privacy Day 2020

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Namely, they should implement encryption, key management and identity and access management (IAM) to help preserve the privacy of their stored data. Encryption. An organization’s digital security strategy would not be complete without encryption. Key Management. That’s the purpose of IAM.

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Protecting Medical Data Against a Cyber-Attack Pandemic

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Patient records were always valued by attackers for launching sophisticated insurance fraud schemes, purchasing medical supplies or drugs, or committing other types of fraud including identity theft. Increasing the use of advanced IoT devices. Today, there is a need to protect the authenticity of individual vaccination records.

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Enterprise Secrets Management Explained: Best Practices, Challenges, and Tool Selection

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Secrets management refers to tools and methods to securely store, access, and centrally manage the lifecycle of digital authentication credentials. This includes sensitive data such as passwords, encryption keys, APIs, tokens, and certificates. The simplest definition of a secret is that of a digital authentication credential.

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Protecting Medical Data Against a Cyber-Attack Pandemic

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Patient records were always valued by attackers for launching sophisticated insurance fraud schemes, purchasing medical supplies or drugs, or committing other types of fraud including identity theft. Increasing the use of advanced IoT devices. Today, there is a need to protect the authenticity of individual vaccination records.

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3 Ways to Protect Smart Devices from Criminal Exploits

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

However, in today’s IoT era, there are increasingly new ways people can break in to steal from us – by hacking into our Smart Devices. Additionally, while most manufacturers are experts in their device domain, they are not typically familiar with IoT security needs or how to incorporate them into production.

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19 petabytes of data exposed across 29,000+ unprotected databases

Security Affairs

Such lapses in database security can (and often do) lead to hundreds of millions of people having their personal information exposed on the internet, allowing threat actors to use that data for a variety of malicious purposes, including phishing and other types of social engineering attacks , as well as identity theft.

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