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Federal Government is Excelling at Digital Transformation While Security Challenges Gain Ground

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

This year’s 2020 Thales Data Threat Report – Federal Government Edition reveals that as the U.S. federal government aggressively implements cloud, mobile, and the Internet of Things (IoT), a leader relative to the rest of the world – even when compared to the business sector. Breaches remain an issue.

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Federal cybersecurity: breaking down the barriers to adoption

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

These vulnerabilities can span from limited use of data encryption to the abuse of privileged user policies. Our annual Thales Data Threat Report-Federal Edition , released today, found that 98% of federal agencies are storing sensitive data within a digitally transformative environment. Regulations Stoke the Flames.

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Data security is everyone’s responsibility

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

We’ve also addressed what key executives, especially CISOs, should be thinking about as data moves and is accessed across their organizations. As events such as Safer Internet Day (that occurred earlier this week) are meant to promote, more awareness is needed for better, more secure internet practices for everyone, including young users.

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A Question of Identity: The Evolution of Identity & Access Management

SecureWorld News

In this case, CISOs must manage the risks due to the technology debt. Ninety-five percent of cybersecurity breaches are due to human error (Symantec Internet Security Threat Report). Nation-state attackers have exploited high-severity vulnerabilities in legacy VPN platforms to breach networks.

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2024 State of Cybersecurity: Reports of More Threats & Prioritization Issues

eSecurity Planet

Company instructions to keep hands off internal network traffic leads to internet service provider (ISP) suppression of only 1% of the 100,000 monthly outgoing DDoS attacks. The vendor surveys report that: Cisco: Analyzed that 35% of all attacks in 2023 were ransomware.

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How to Prevent and Protect Against Supply Chain Attacks

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

As a rule, do not publish unprotected remote desktops on the internet. RDP gateways are accessed over HTTPS connections (port 443) protected through the TLS encryption protocol. In the current threat environment all apps and users, especially cloud services are valid targets. Apply MFA to access the RDP gateway. Data security.