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Exploring the Cost of a Data Breach and Its Implications

Centraleyes

According to IBM’s recently released “Cost of a Data Breach” statistics report, the average financial toll of a data breach has surged to an unprecedented $4.45 Regional Disparities in Data Breach Costs The United States emerges with a significantly higher average cost of $9.4

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Top 5 Industries Most Vulnerable to Data Breaches in 2023

Security Boulevard

The end result of these types of cyber attacks are often highly public and damaging data breaches. 1 in 4 Americans reported that they would stop doing business with a company following a data breach, and 67% of consumers reported a loss of trust in an organization following a breach. Your reward?

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Are Data Breaches the New Reality for Retail?

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

While retailers digitally transform their businesses to better serve the higher demands of their customers, they’re being challenged with safeguarding personal data to protect customers, partners and suppliers’ critical information. In fact, this year’s report showed a massive increase in data breaches, with 50 percent of U.S.

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How to Accelerate Government Transformation by Reducing Risk, Complexity, and Cost

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

From smart cities and digital IDs to open government and better governance, the Cloud, Big Data, IoT and Artificial Intelligence have enabled a wide range of digital government initiatives. Big transformation of big government. The escalating risk of cyber threat. Data Security. Government.

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The Future of Payments Security

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

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. The stolen data is used both to commit fraud directly and indirectly. Big Data and EMV 3DS.

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Advancing Trust in a Digital World

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

The emergence of ransomware groups targeting critical infrastructure such as healthcare facilities and energy organizations, as well as the rising trend of large-scale data breaches, is putting governments' capacity to defend citizens' lives, property, and well-being in jeopardy.

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Avoiding Tax Scams in 2022

Approachable Cyber Threats

Phishing remains the leading cause of big data breaches. Forward emails or phone numbers of phishing to phishing@irs.gov Use [link] for everything else. Visit [link] to block more phishing pages. Why should I care about tax scams? Can’t I just report fraud and get my money back anyway?”

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