The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

There’s no doubt, the increasing use of telemedicine, the explosion of health-based cloud apps, and innovative medical IoT devices are improving the patient care experience. However, healthcare data ranks at the top of the list for needing improvements in security and privacy protections. Patient data exposures.

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Centraleyes

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

In the digital era, cloud computing has become synonymous with agility and scalability for businesses and individuals. However, critical security risks and threats inherent in cloud environments come alongside the myriad benefits. Who’s Responsible for Security in the Cloud?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 28, 2020

January 28, 2020 marks the 13th iteration of Data Privacy Day. An extension of the celebration for Data Protection Day in Europe, Data Privacy Day functions as the signature event of the National Cyber Security Centre’s ongoing education and awareness efforts surrounding online privacy. Encryption. Key Management.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

SaaS data security: here’s why enterprises need to focus on this fast-growing challenge now! In fact, today’s most successful companies are characterized by increased SaaS usage, with a growing percentage of critical business data running on SaaS apps. Of course, no good story is complete without some dark characters.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The importance of identities is reflected in the recent strategy for a Zero Trust cybersecurity , published by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Hence, all network traffic “must be encrypted and authenticated as soon as practicable.” Hence, all network traffic “must be encrypted and authenticated as soon as practicable.”

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 10, 2021

Guest Blog: TalkingTrust. What’s driving the security of IoT? The Urgency for Security in a Connected World. Connectivity enables powerful, revenue-generating capabilities…from data telemetry and runtime analytics, to effectively predicting and maintenance requirements. Device Security is Hard.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 7, 2019

For many years, encryption has been viewed as a burden on businesses – expensive, complex and of questionable value. In recent years, we’ve seen a sharp rise in reporting and analysis of data breaches – arguably both a stimulant and a symptom of cyber-security taking its place on the board agenda. Enter encryption.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

It’s also an important time because the world is still trying to catch up to changes brought about by the benefits of the Cloud. The impacts of Cloud on datacenters and IT infrastructure is still at the transformative stage where it is beginning to be well-established as the new normal.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Unfortunately, API attacks are increasing as vectors for security incidents. In this blog, we will explain the unique data security challenges for Telcos and three ways how both Thales and Red Hat can help them protect against future API attacks. These large subscriber bases in turn generate massive data volumes.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Vladimir Soukharev, InfoSec Global The advent of quantum computers poses a substantial threat to various industries due to their potential to compromise standard encryption methods that protect global data, communications, and transactions. This vulnerability could expose sensitive enterprise information to risk. In the U.S.,

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 30, 2023

Introduction Today you look at the Global/Multi-site Enterprise Security Architecture of an organization and see a myriad of concerns. Increased levels of complexity, difficulties managing multiple third parties, difficulties implementing consistent levels of security, and so on. One such example is outlined below.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Today’s enterprises are facing more complexities and challenges than ever before. Thanks to the emergence of today’s hybrid and multi-cloud environments and factors like remote work, ransomware attacks continue to permeate each industry. From there, they can encrypt data, execute a ransomware attack and more.

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Centraleyes

MARCH 11, 2024

The Apollo 13 Odyssey and Cloud Security: Ensuring a Safe Return in the Digital Frontier The Apollo 13 mission stands out as a testament to human resilience and the critical importance of meticulous planning. In today’s digital frontier, organizations embark on their odyssey—harnessing the vast potential of the cloud.

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Cisco Security

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

In today’s security climate, NetOps and SecOps teams are witnessing increased attack surface area as applications and workloads move far beyond the boundaries of their data center. These applications/workloads move to, and reside in multi-cloud architecture, adding complexity to connectivity, visibility, and control.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 8, 2023

A security strategy should clear obstacles and enable every part of a business operation to run smoothly. Smarter security is the rising tide that lifts all ships. As all parts of an organization overlap with security, an increase in one allows benefits in others. What constitutes “smarter security?” Automated offense.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Nearly half (48%) of all corporate data is stored in the cloud according to the 2019 Thales Global Cloud Security Study conducted by the Ponemon Institute. The reality is the cloud has created challenges in knowing where data is stored, who has access to it, and how to best secure it. BYOK vs HYOK.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

A reasoned approach to managing digital sovereignty. The cloud is getting bigger and more complex to manage by the minute. Sensitive data is stored across multicloud environments, and data storage and classification are major concerns. Failed audits and cloud data breaches are common….

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 10, 2022

Identity and Access Management in Multi-Cloud Environments. I AM challenges in a multi-cloud environment. There are several challenges to implementing secure IAM practices across a multi-cloud environment. 509 certificates and other encrypted credentials) in a multi-cloud ecosystem. brooke.crothers.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 5, 2021

Two of the largest government security agencies are laying out the key cyberthreats to Kubernetes, the popular platform for orchestrating and managing containers, and ways to harden the open-source tool against attacks. “Kubernetes can be a valuable target for data and/or compute power theft,” the authors wrote.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2022

Which are the most important cybersecurity measures that businesses can take to protect themselves in the cloud era? We are now firmly in the era of cloud data and storage. In fact, it’s become quite difficult to find a service that doesn’t rely on the cloud in some way. Use a reputable cloud service provider.

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Centraleyes

APRIL 16, 2024

Cyber Data loss can lead to severe consequences, including financial losses, damage to reputation, and legal repercussions. Section 1: Understanding the Dynamics of Data Loss Prevention What is Data Loss Prevention? This involves defining clear policies, procedures, and data ownership throughout its lifecycle.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 3, 2018

Streamlining operations and improving security. Large data scale breaches have led an increasing number of companies to embrace comprehensive encryption strategies to protect their assets. Microsoft SQL and Oracle Database Key Management Challenges. Solutions for Transparent Database Encryption.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 16, 2020

The drastic changes we’re experiencing in our personal and professional lives would have been impossible to imagine just a year ago when we shared this blog about CEOs becoming more actively involved in data security conversations in the boardroom. Business continuity depends on security and strong access control.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 29, 2021

After more than six months, Schrems II is still proving to be difficult to manage for many organisations across the world. In 2021, Schrems II – the landmark data privacy verdict issued in July 2020 – continues to prevent businesses from carrying out basic data transfers to non-EU countries. What is Schrems II?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 16, 2019

We are seeing more organizations use a ‘lift and shift’ policy, where data is moved to the cloud to satisfy project requirements. But safe migration to the cloud requires that the process be secure, compliant and easy to implement. Then, if the data is retrieved by some malicious entity, it is meaningless.

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Webroot

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

billion to data breaches and cybercrime. This is all happening while companies are spending trillions digitizing their business operations and trying to obtain secure cyber insurance while keeping up with regulatory changes in GDPR, HIPAA, and Sarbanes-Oxley. Here are two tools that can protect your data: 1.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 1, 2019

Over the last two election cycles, we’ve seen an increased focus on election security, hacking and fraud. Most federal security issues are a result of well-known long-standing vulnerabilities that agencies have not addressed. These vulnerabilities can span from limited use of data encryption to the abuse of privileged user policies.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 20, 2018

More businesses than ever before are choosing to move their IT infrastructure and systems to cloud solutions such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. There are many reasons to choose a cloud solution including increased flexibility and scalability, as well as reduced cost. Take password security seriousl. Limit access.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

2020 marks the launch of the Thales Data Threat Report-Global Edition for the seventh consecutive year. In previous years, we have discussed the efforts of businesses to digitally transform their processes to maintain or gain a competitive advantage and many of these transformative technologies involves moving to the cloud.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Here is Erin’s Q&A column, which originally went live on OneRep’s well-done blog.) For the first expert interview on our blog, we welcomed Pulitzer-winning investigative reporter Byron V. Byron is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Last Watchdog on Privacy & Security.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 10, 2019

theme will help to encourage personal accountability and proactive behavior in digital privacy, security best practices, common cyber threats and cybersecurity careers. As part of their digital transformation process, more and more businesses are moving to the cloud. Driven through mass public engagement, the ‘Own IT. Protect IT.’

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 25, 2019

healthcare organizations are nearly universal in the adoption of digital transformation technologies (cloud, SaaS applications, big data, IoT, digital payments, containers, and blockchain). And the cloud is arguably the most daunting of these environments, and the most widely deployed.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 16, 2018

The past year has seen a number of high profile security breaches tied to leaky storage servers. Specifically, the leakage of sensitive files connected to misconfigured security protocols on Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) buckets. If they don’t, they are at risk of becoming the next headline.

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Centraleyes

APRIL 8, 2024

High-profile data breaches have made data protection and privacy a hot subject. Hackers use more sophisticated methods to break network defenses and steal sensitive data on a large scale. Malicious actors target personal data because of its value. They use this data to steal identities and access corporate accounts.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The engine that is powering this transformation is the cloud and the vast array of on demand services it provides. In fact, according to the 2019 Thales Cloud Security Study , the average company uses 29 cloud services. Nearly half (48%) of corporate data is stored in the cloud. And it gets worse.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 14, 2022

Why Are We Still Separating Credential Management and Machine Identity Management? A fragmented identity management landscape. In a widely distributed business and computing environment, where identities are now the new perimeter to defend, controlling the access to data is crucial. brooke.crothers.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 11, 2023

How Machine Learning Can Accelerate and Improve the Accuracy of Sensitive Data Classification madhav Tue, 12/12/2023 - 05:21 Given the pace of data growth and the complexity of hybrid IT environments, the discovery and classification of sensitive data is no simple task.

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