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MY TAKE: How ‘credential stuffing’ and ‘account takeovers’ are leveraging Big Data, automation

The Last Watchdog

Related: Cyber risks spinning out of IoT Credential stuffing and account takeovers – which take full advantage of Big Data, high-velocity software, and automation – inundated the internet in massive surges in 2018 and the first half of 2019, according to multiple reports. Hackers count on it.

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Data-Centric Security and Big Data

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

As Cybersecurity continues to be heavily focused on solving the problem of attacks against software vulnerabilities and system access, one potential silver bullet in the data breach equation remains out of the limelight. The Big Data Conundrum.

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

The Last Watchdog

Indeed, APIs have opened new horizons of cloud services, mobile computing and IoT infrastructure, with much more to come. A chilling illustration of how APIs can factor into an attack sequence comes from the massive Capital One data breach. Yet, in bringing us here, APIs have also spawned a vast new tier of security holes.

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Securing Data in the Digital Transformation Era

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Data breaches are the new normal. According to our 2018 Global Data Threat Report , 67% of enterprises have been breached, with that percentage rate growing every year. Also with the increase in cloud, mobile, and IoT devices, a whole new generation of attack surfaces are vulnerable to hackers.

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Leopard Spots and Zebra Stripes: Big Data and Identity Management

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

In this age of big data, the concept is fitting, because this kind of information is increasingly being used to identify individuals and even machines. In the following, I focus on the analytics component, how it is increasingly used across enterprises, and why it is important to protect big data. Big Data Analytics.

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

The Last Watchdog

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 Different flavors of cloud architectures, sprawling IoT systems and the coming wide deployment of 5G networks add up to not just Big Data, but Very Big Data.

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