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AWS acquires encrypted comms platform Wickr to support shift to hybrid work environments

SC Magazine

In a move that could bring some relief to organizations looking to secure their cloud migrations, Amazon Web Services on Friday announced that it had acquired Wickr, provider of secure end-to-end encryption and communications platform. (Photo by David Ryder/Getty Images).

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The Changing Face of Data Security in Federal Government

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

With details from our report, I also highlighted how demand for modernization, mobile payments, IoT, cloud migration and cost savings is driving the push for new technologies while increasing opportunities for threats. They have to enforce these controls that are defined by them by encrypting the data.”.

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Evolution of Cloud Security: From Shared Responsibility to Shared Fate

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Shared responsibility is about controlling your own security – anything from data encryption to managing the encryption keys. Some companies think that delegating all their security controls to the cloud providers is the solution to a safer public cloud migration. This is called shared fate.

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From Google Cloud Blog: “Improving security, compliance, and governance with cloud-based DLP data…

Anton on Security

Furthermore, the accelerating pace of cloud migrations means that there are more cases of personal data being uploaded to the public cloud. In fact, perhaps it was acceptable to use personal data for testing while the application was developed and then deployed internally, but now public cloud changed things.

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SaaS data security: here’s why enterprises need to focus on this fast-growing challenge now!

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

This is further augmented with an accelerated cloud migration, primarily towards multi-cloud deployments. With a larger number of SaaS Apps across multiple cloud platforms to secure, operational errors and their associated risks start to grow. Of course, no good story is complete without some dark characters.

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Thales at GITEX 2021 – An Exciting Time With Exciting News

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

If you are unfamiliar GITEX, it is an acronym for Gulf Information Technology Exhibition. What makes it especially interesting is that it is a mix of leading-edge technology, as well as progressive ideas. Identity and security management is one of the challenges of any organization’s cloud migration initiative.

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Forrester and Accenture on Schrems II and the Security of International Data Flows

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Business digitalization and cloud migration makes it even more difficult to maintain compliance with the rule, since organizations need to have clear visibility of data transfers, as well as of the laws applicable in the country hosting their data. Control access to your data by controlling and managing the encryption keys.