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Cyber Security Awareness Month – Answering Google’s Most Commonly Asked Questions

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Encryption, data sovereignty, multifactor authentication and website cookies are all vital ideas and technologies to keep consumers’ personal data safe – but research released this month reveals widespread confusion. Encryption What is encryption? Why is this something I should care about?

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U.S. Healthcare Industry Needs a Shot in the Arm When it Comes to Data Protection: 70% experienced a breach; Less than 38% are encrypting even as threats increase

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Data breaches are at an epidemic level with healthcare organizations experiencing the highest attack rate compared to any other industry studied according to the new Thales 2019 Data Threat Report-Healthcare Edition. They’re counting on the fact that only 38% or less of healthcare organizations encrypt data.

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Black Friday and Cyber Weekend: Navigating the Tumultuous Waters of Retail Cybersecurity

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The Verizon 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report reveals that system intrusion, phishing, and web app attacks are the predominant patterns that enable criminals to steal personal and financial information, including credit card data. Today, using Point-to-Point Encryption (P2PE) isn't just a luxury; it's a necessity.

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The Evolving Cybersecurity Threats to Critical National Infrastructure

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However, simple actions like adopting multi-factor authentication (MFA) or encrypting sensitive data everywhere should be exercised throughout the year and not just during that month. Despite the culminating threats, the report also showed insufficient ransomware preparedness across critical infrastructure organizations.

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National Day of Unplugging – how switching off can boost business security

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In my family, we regularly ‘unplug’ and use the opportunity to discuss cyber awareness and topics such as the risks to our family information, how we can improve personal safety, and what are we doing to prevent identify theft. Whether it’s stored in a company’s own servers or the cloud – encryption must be used to protect sensitive data.

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DORA: 1 year to go! Key recommendations for Financial Services to improve cybersecurity and resilience in multi-clouds

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This new regulation ( EU 2022/2554 ) requires financial entities, and their critical Information and Communication Technology (ICT) suppliers, to implement contractual, organisational and technical measures to improve the level of digital operational resilience of the sector.

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The Future of Payments Security

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Even when banking organizations are upgrading security posture to safeguard sensitive financial information, hackers can steal the data intelligently by tying known vulnerabilities together, and making it turn out to be a potential attack. Strong Customer Authentication (SCA). Table 1: Strong Customer Authentication Factors.

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