Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 17, 2019

Likening this flu scenario to a data breach, 70 percent of healthcare organizations report that they’re sick and the majority are not taking proven and adequate measures to stay well. With the chance of exposure being so high, where’s the obvious flurry of activity to protect sensitive data, even as the threat landscape expands?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The Retail Cyber Threat Landscape Time and again, the retail industry has found itself in the crosshairs of cybercriminals. Data breaches in the retail sector illustrate the vulnerabilities inherent to this industry, emphasizing the need for robust cybersecurity measures. The benefits are twofold.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Think about it – how much information are you sharing when you buy something online? Do you even think twice before you click the “Submit” button and send your personal information in an effort to quicklyget your online bargain?! product designs, proprietary software), financial information and legal documents (e.g. contracts).

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 31, 2021

Key management – the processing, management and storage of keys for who can decrypt and access protected information – is an often-overlooked, and yet critical element of encryption. This lack of centralized control can jeopardize the integrity of encryption. And rightly so.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 13, 2019

At the 2019 RSA Conference, Pure Storage and Thales introduced Vormetric Transparent Encryption for Efficient Storage – the IT and security industries’ first end-to-end data encryption framework that realizes storage array data reduction. Data Security: Low Adoption Amidst Increasing Requirements.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Compliance madhav Tue, 09/19/2023 - 05:17 It is essential for any business that stores, processes, and transmits payment card information to comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). Consumers’ payment data is a compelling target for criminals who continue to circumvent IT security defenses.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 3, 2024

Challenge 1: Data breaches and ID fraud A single hack or data breach can undo decades of trust building and have a catastrophic effect on the perception of a financial organisation. These threats include sophisticated phishing scams, complex cyber-attacks aimed at stealing sensitive customer information and ID fraud.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 24, 2022

Data Protection Day commemorates the January 28, 1981, signing of Convention 108, the first legally binding international treaty dealing with privacy and data protection. Data Privacy Week also encourages businesses to respect data and be more transparent about how they collect and use customer data. Data security.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2023

It also introduces new concepts, including the requirement for notifying the regulator of any cross-border personal data transfers (both before and after the transfer). The new law goes further by introducing criminal sanctions for personal data breaches.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 6, 2020

In my family, we regularly ‘unplug’ and use the opportunity to discuss cyber awareness and topics such as the risks to our family information, how we can improve personal safety, and what are we doing to prevent identify theft. It’s impossible to protect data if you don’t know where it is. Protecting sensitive data is the key.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 23, 2022

As the world is slowly returning to pre-pandemic conditions, the underlying trends that have always driven information security, such as new technologies, greater compliance mandates and more severe security incidents, continue to be significant change agents. The quantum computing threat. 2021 Report. 2022 Report.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 7, 2020

Careful planning and forward-thinking security is the best way to protect your most precious asset – your data – either while it is in transit or at rest. Whether the data breach is from stolen identities or human error, privacy breaches of unencrypted data can result in severe penalties under data protection regulations such as GDPR or CCPA.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 23, 2023

However, simple actions like adopting multi-factor authentication (MFA) or encrypting sensitive data everywhere should be exercised throughout the year and not just during that month. Despite the culminating threats, the report also showed insufficient ransomware preparedness across critical infrastructure organizations.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 12, 2019

At the 2019 RSA Conference, Pure Storage and Thales introduced Vormetric Transparent Encryption for Efficient Storage – the IT and security industries’ first end-to-end data encryption framework that realizes storage array data reduction. Data Security: Low Adoption Amidst Increasing Requirements.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 3, 2019

With more and more organizations embracing digital transformation and accelerating their pace to digitize every piece of information, they become increasingly vulnerable to sophisticated cyber-attacks and data breaches. In a nutshell, no matter it’s data-at-rest or data-in-motion , it should be encrypted regardless of its state.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Double extortion ransomware is a growing type of cyber-attack in which a victim’s sensitive data is first stolen, and then encrypted, giving the criminal the option of demanding two separate ransom payments. As part of double extortion attacks, tactics often include the threat of DDoS attacks.

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Security Affairs

JULY 2, 2023

Illicit Telegram Communities Dismantling of an encrypted network sends shockwaves through organised crime groups across Europe TSMC Says Supplier Hacked After Ransomware Group Claims Attack on Chip Giant Malware Trojanized Super Mario Game Installer Spreads SupremeBot Malware Initial research exposing JOKERSPY Who is 8BASE?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

According to the global edition of the Thales 2020 Data Threat Report , 47% of healthcare organizations are either aggressively disrupting their market or are embedding digital capabilities that enable greater agility. These tools include smart technology-oriented solutions like encryption and tokenization.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

According to the 2019 Thales Data Threat Report – Retail Edition , nearly two thirds (62%) of U.S. retailers reported experiencing data breaches, with more than a third (37%) occurring in the past year. Retailers must encrypt everything — not just payment or customer preference data.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 26, 2021

Even when banking organizations are upgrading security posture to safeguard sensitive financial information, hackers can steal the data intelligently by tying known vulnerabilities together, and making it turn out to be a potential attack. There are two ways to protect customers’ PAN, encryption and tokenization.

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Security Affairs

JULY 10, 2022

Unfaithful HackerOne employee steals bug reports to claim additional bounties Threat Report Portugal: Q2 2022 CISA orders federal agencies to patch CVE-2022-26925 by July 22 Tens of Jenkins plugins are affected by zero-day vulnerabilities Microsoft: Raspberry Robin worm already infected hundreds of networks. Upgrade it now!

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Companies and organizations, whether in the public or in the private sector, are re-establishing their business in the era of information and data revolution. Weak security practices lead to data breaches. Despite the solid regulatory environment, digitalized industries have a greater threat exposure.

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Security Affairs

JULY 23, 2021

You can’t simply bring people into the office and trust that the network perimeter protects your information. Across a hybrid cloud network, identity is the common link that can protect or expose your valuable information. All of these IAM features are critical for protecting your data. What Is An IAM Solution? Productivity.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

The age of Big Data is upon us. And, as more data is available for analytical purposes, more sensitive and private information is at risk. Protecting the confidentiality and integrity and of warehoused data and ensuring that access is controlled is vital to keeping that data secure. respondents.”.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 27, 2022

Spending in Big Data for example, which could lead to better governance and better decisions, is increasing around the world, in 2020 alone Big Data spending grew by 40% across federal agencies in the United States. Cloud adoption, essential for convenient services and efficient collaboration, is widespread and growing fast.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 26, 2023

According to the World Economic Forum 2023 Global Risks Report, cybercrime and cyber insecurity are among the top 10 short- and long-term global risks. The latest Verizon 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report highlights that due to digitization, SMBs and large companies increasingly use similar services and infrastructure.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 25, 2018

According to my colleague, Peter Galvin, however, “ we have to admit that data breaches are the new reality ”. Our recent Global Data Threat Report revealed that two thirds of businesses (67%) have been breached, with over a third (36%) reporting a breach within the past year.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 2, 2023

Single Pane of Glass, Single Vendor According to the Thales 2023 Data Threat Report , 93% of organizations use four or more key management solutions (includes enterprise key manager vendors and cloud provider key managers). 99% of data breaches occur because of human error.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 23, 2018

While it’s no surprise to anybody reading this that data breaches are on the rise, the attacks facing healthcare organizations, most recently in Asia, are particularly worrisome. One need not look very far to find examples of the threats facing these entities: In Singapore, 1.5 Evolving Threat Landscape.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 20, 2021

In the 2020 Data Threat Report – Global Edition , more than a quarter (26%) of senior security executives from around the world with responsibility for their organizations’ IT and data security told Thales that their employers had experienced a data breach in the past year. Encryption. Data security.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

At the start of the year, Thales released the findings of its latest annual global Data Threat Report which found that, as businesses everywhere undergo a form of digital transformation, the risk of data breaches has reached an all-time high.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 6, 2019

a battle that draws attention (and investment) away from the long-term war to protect mission-critical and personally identifiable data. Despite increases in data breaches, sufficient investment in data protection is still too low for federal agencies, setting them up to repeat mistakes of the past.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 11, 2018

As I was starting to write this blog, yet another retail program data breach occurred, for Marriott’s Starwood loyalty program. What I’d originally planned to write about was a topic that directly applies – why retailers of all stripes are not investing in data security. This had me asking a simple question – Why?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 5, 2018

Healthcare’s IT evolution has brought numerous security challenges including regulations, the use of digitally transformative technologies that have created huge amounts of data to store and protect, and the extraordinary value of electronic personal health information (ePHI) to cybercriminals. Healthcare Data Prized by Cybercriminals.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Protecting Consumer Data is Priority #1. In our 2018 Data Threat Report-Retail Edition , we found 50% of respondents reported a data breach this past year, so it goes without saying that the holiday shopping season is a prime time for cyber criminals to target both retailers and consumers alike.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 11, 2018

According to the 2018 Thales Data Threat Report , two in five global healthcare organisations (39%) experienced a data breach in the last year, and that’s using today’s relatively modest and well-understood web systems. For more information, please read Thales eSecurity’s Healthcare IoT Security Blueprint.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 6, 2018

For most enterprise IT security professionals, there are some common reasons that we need to protect a given data set. Minimizing the chance of a data breach of PII. Protecting sensitive financial data, intellectual property or secrets. If the encrypted item is lost, stolen or thrown away, there’s no risk of exposure.

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