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How to Prevent Data Breaches: Data Breach Prevention Tips

eSecurity Planet

With the ever-present threat of data breaches, organizations need to adopt best practices to help prevent breaches and to respond to them when they occur to limit any damage. And breaches will occur – because bad guys make a living by figuring out ways to circumvent security best practices.

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SHARING INTEL: Here’s why it has become so vital to prioritize the security-proofing of APIs

The Last Watchdog

A chilling illustration of how APIs can factor into an attack sequence comes from the massive Capital One data breach. Former Amazon programmer Paige Thompson is facing a growing list of federal charges for her alleged theft of personal data of more than 100 million Capital One patrons. Dearth of planning.

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GUEST ESSAY – Notable events in hacking history that helped transform cybersecurity assessment

The Last Watchdog

Phishing scams, malware, ransomware and data breaches are just some of the examples of cyberthreats that can devastate business operations and the protection of consumer information. It’s clear that when technology develops, people find creative ways to cause mass disruption, increasing the need for antivirus protection and firewalls.

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MY TAKE: Six-figure GDPR privacy fines reinforce business case for advanced SIEM, UEBA tools

The Last Watchdog

Meanwhile, some 42% of SOC analysts say it can take months or years to fully resolve actual breaches. IBM’s recent data breach study shows how the cost of a data breach has risen 12% over the past five years and now costs $3.92 million, on average.

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NEW TECH: LogicHub introduces ‘virtualized’ security analysts to help elevate SOAR

The Last Watchdog

Here are my takeaways: Skills deficit Over the past 20 years, enterprises have shelled out small fortunes in order to stock their SOCs with the best firewalls, anti-malware suites, intrusion detection, data loss prevention and sandbox detonators money can buy. But that hasn’t been enough. Just ask Capital One , Marriott or Equifax.

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Q&A: Here’s why it has become vital for companies to deter ‘machine-identity thieves’

The Last Watchdog

And we’re in a nascent phase where clever advances are blossoming even as unprecedented data breaches arise in parallel. The bad guys actually look for the ability to duplicate a machine’s identity, so that they look like they’re a trusted part of the system and are thus able to steal the data. Hudson: Yes, exactly.

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NEW TECH: How ‘cryptographic splitting’ bakes-in security at a ‘protect-the-data-itself’ level

The Last Watchdog

How can it be that marquee enterprises like Capital One, Marriott, Facebook, Yahoo, HBO, Equifax, Uber and countless others continue to lose sensitive information in massive data breaches? Here are key takeaways: Security benefits Protect the data itself. Equifax lost data for 148 million citizens. billion by 2022.