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Best Encryption Software for 2022

eSecurity Planet

It’s been a couple of decades since data tapes delivered by trucks made encryption a standard enterprise cybersecurity practice. Yet even as technology has changed, sending and receiving data remains a major vulnerability, ensuring encryption’s place as a foundational security practice. What is Encryption?

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Intel, DoD start sprint to make homomorphic encryption ready for real

SC Magazine

Intel Labs announced an initiative funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to create hardware that accelerates how computers process homomorphic encryption. Homomorphic encryption addresses a weakness in normal encryption – that being, the need for data to be decrypted before a computer can perform operations.

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Homomorphic Encryption Makes Real-World Gains, Pushed by Google, IBM, Microsoft

eSecurity Planet

The increasing mobility of data, as it ping-pongs between clouds, data centers and the edge, has made it an easier target of cybercrime groups, which has put a premium on the encryption of that data in recent years. The data is protected against cybercriminals as well as others who are not supposed to see it.

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Top 10 Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) Vendors

eSecurity Planet

Governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) software helps businesses manage all of the necessary documentation and processes for ensuring maximum productivity and preparedness. Third-party governance. Like other competitive GRC solutions, it speeds the process of aggregating and mining data, building reports, and managing files.

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Striking a Balance: Senator Wyden's Act and AI in Healthcare

SecureWorld News

From my viewpoint in AI governance, the Algorithmic Accountability Act represents a crucial stride toward aligning AI innovation with ethical responsibility. But some of these big data systems are riddled with bias that discriminate against patients based on race, gender, sexual orientation, and disability.

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Federal cybersecurity: breaking down the barriers to adoption

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

While many state and government officials are under no illusion that they are safe from a digital attack, concern should run deeper than election integrity. These vulnerabilities can span from limited use of data encryption to the abuse of privileged user policies. Data Breaches aren’t Slowing Down.

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The Evolving Cybersecurity Threats to Critical National Infrastructure

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

The Evolving Cybersecurity Threats to Critical National Infrastructure andrew.gertz@t… Mon, 10/23/2023 - 14:07 Cyberattacks on critical vital infrastructure can have disastrous results, forcing governments and regulatory bodies to pay close attention to intensifying the efforts to safeguard these industries. And only a mere 2.6%