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

The Last Watchdog

Assessing the risks involved in using the latest technology is something our culture had to adopt in the early days of the computer. New technologies come with risks — there’s no denying that. In 1971, researcher Bob Thomas and his team at BBN Technologies created a virus that was later coined the “Creeper” worm.

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

The Last Watchdog

Masters reported that very little slowed him down as he discovered ways to make unauthenticated requests for private account data of Peloton cyclers including names, birth dates, gender, location, weight and workout stats. A chilling illustration of how APIs can factor into an attack sequence comes from the massive Capital One data breach.

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

The Last Watchdog

Enterprises have spent billions of dollars on next-gen technology solutions, yet security analysts are getting increasingly frustrated. Meanwhile, some 42% of SOC analysts say it can take months or years to fully resolve actual breaches. Forty-nine percent said they were not aligned at all. million, on average. Talk more soon.

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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? And it’s certainly not for lack of technology; just visit the vast exhibitors’ floor at RSA Conference or Black Hat USA. billion by 2022.

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

The Last Watchdog

Security orchestration, automation and response, or SOAR, is a fledgling security technology stack that first entered the cybersecurity lexicon about six years ago. Today there exists a widening shortage of security analysts talented and battle tested enough to make sense of the rising tide of data logs inundating their SIEM systems.

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Security Considerations for Data Lakes

eSecurity Planet

Essentially, we are securing an app at scale with enormous requirements for stored data, incoming data, data interactions, and network connections. Given the importance of “Big Data” analytics and applications to a company’s financial performance, securing data lakes is a critical priority for security teams.