SC Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

New research by Thales on security trends one year into the pandemic found that about 50% of businesses say that they store more than 40% of their data in external cloud environments, but only 17% have encrypted at least half of their sensitive data in the cloud.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Encrypt "non-public" data both at rest and in motion or use effective alternative compensating controls for information at rest if approved by the CISO in writing. The feasibility of encryption and effectiveness of the compensating controls shall be reviewed by the CISO at least annually.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Centralised, Scalable, Compliant: Keeping Your Data Safer with Enterprise Key Management madhav Tue, 02/18/2025 - 04:50 The rise of multi-cloud environments, hybrid infrastructures, and stricter regulatory requirements has made cryptographic key management a major priority for enterprises around the world.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The State of Data Security in 2024 However, not only individuals must protect their digital assets; organizations do, too. A host of threats continue to put enterprise data at risk. It's crucial to recognize that data breaches have enormous impacts on individuals, businesses, and society.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 31, 2018

Data breaches are the new normal. According to our 2018 Global Data Threat Report , 67% of enterprises have been breached, with that percentage rate growing every year. As organizations move to the cloud, it is critical that they consider new security measures to protect their data.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 19, 2025

The Complexity of Multi-Cloud Security The Thales 2025 Data Threat Report highlights that entities must rethink their approach to data security due to structural and geopolitical changes. In the AI era, the data businesses collect, store, process and share takes center stage. milliona very sobering statistic.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 26, 2025

AI, Quantum and the Evolving Threat Landscape: Key Findings from the Thales 2025 Data Threat Report madhav Tue, 05/27/2025 - 04:40 The Thales 2025 Data Threat Report reveals a critical inflection point in global cybersecurity. This concern is amplified given the high reported number of APIs in use.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 18, 2018

As retailers expand their digitization, they need to continually address cybersecurity since the challenge to secure critical and confidential data will only increase. It also suggests that while retailers are increasing IT security spending this year, they admit having been breached in the last year. Data shows that 67 percent of U.S.

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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

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

2020 marks the launch of the Thales Data Threat Report-Global Edition for the seventh consecutive year. This year the report focuses on the post digital transformation era. The 2020 Thales Data Threat Report-Global Edition indicates that we have reached a tipping point.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

However, data is only valuable if its integrity is maintained which is why regulators like the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC), the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) and the EU released the Notifiable Data Breach (NDB) scheme, CPS 234 and GDPR respectively to ensure the protection of sensitive customer data.

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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

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

So, what are we doing about encryption?”. So why has it become such a hot topic, and what will their willingness – and readiness – to address the topic say about the state of enterprise data security? Data breaches are not a new phenomenon – but it’s a threat continually on the rise.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Key Takeaways from the Thales Data Threat Report: EME Edition madhav Tue, 09/24/2024 - 05:23 Organizations in the Europe and Middle East (EME) region face significant challenges. The threat landscape is increasingly complex, regulatory requirements are becoming more stringent, and the economic environment remains uncertain.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

HIPAA ensures that businesses treat your personal health information with extra care, encrypting it, restricting who can access it, and ensuring systems that store it are secure and continuously tested. To compound issues, identity and encryption management complexity is a serious issue.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

trillion, the risk of a data breach extends beyond immediate financial losses. Data Security Thales | Cloud Protection & Licensing Solutions More About This Author > As Black Friday and Cyber Monday loom, the stakes for retailers extend far beyond enticing deals and record sales. trillion and $5.28 trillion and $5.28

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 1, 2019

These vulnerabilities can span from limited use of data encryption to the abuse of privileged user policies. However, modernization and transformative technologies are creating new vulnerabilities resulting in data breaches. Data Breaches aren’t Slowing Down. The problem? Regulations Stoke the Flames.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Key Takeaways from the Thales Data Threat Report: EME Edition madhav Tue, 09/24/2024 - 05:23 Organizations in the Europe and Middle East (EME) region face significant challenges. The threat landscape is increasingly complex, regulatory requirements are becoming more stringent, and the economic environment remains uncertain.

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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. However, merely encrypting sensitive data in the cloud is not sufficient.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Centralized Key Management to Meet the Demand for Enhanced Data Protection Introducing Thales as the Preferred Key Management Partner for HPE GreenLake Thales is proud to be recognized as the preferred Key Management Partner for HPE GreenLake.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 9, 2019

According to the 2019 Thales Data Threat Report -Global Edition, some 90 percent of 1,200 responding data security professionals worldwide report their organizations are using the cloud. Data must be protected where it sits, in the data center, in the cloud, or at its termination point. [2].

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 18, 2019

As organizations move more of their sensitive data to cloud platforms for the efficiency, flexibility and scalability that it promises, security and control continue to be a significant obstacle to this adoption.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 7, 2025

The Rising Threat of Phishing and Credential-Based Attacks As malicious actors evolve their tactics, adding AI to their arsenal of malicious tools and automating and scaling their campaigns on an unprecedented scale, phishing remains a top initial attack vector.

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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

MARCH 6, 2020

With increasing data breaches and unsuspecting users more vulnerable than ever before, cybersecurity situational awareness has never been more important. Protecting sensitive data is the key. Whether it’s stored in a company’s own servers or the cloud – encryption must be used to protect sensitive data.

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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

JANUARY 24, 2022

It is important to understand that nowadays almost all our data – including our personal data, like banking information, medical records, and personal emails – are stored and processed in the cloud. However, with technology innovation comes new risks, security challenges and threats. Happy Data Privacy Week.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 10, 2025

The Thales 2025 Data Threat Report cited “In 2024, a large national healthcare provider was the victim of ransomware, resulting in the theft of medical, billing, and personal records of a substantial proportion of the American population. The challenge of keeping data private continues to grow. The company was paralyzed.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Encryption, data sovereignty, multifactor authentication and website cookies are all vital ideas and technologies to keep consumers’ personal data safe – but research released this month reveals widespread confusion. It's about ensuring your data is handled responsibly and securely. Encryption What is encryption?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 23, 2022

The 2022 Thales Data Threat Report, based on data from a survey of almost 2,800 respondents from 17 countries across the globe, illustrates these trends and changes. Malware and accidental human error are the biggest security threats. The quantum computing threat. 2021 Report. 2022 Report.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 3, 2025

The UK will neither confirm nor deny that its killing encryption The Verge This is not US-related, but certainly important enough to follow as it may have ramifications in the US in the form of setting precedent. Private messaging platform Signal has threatened to pull out of Sweden if these laws take effect.

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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

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Cybercriminals and fraudsters have become innovative enough to exploit the expanding attack surface of financial institutions and turn risks into threats. Disturbingly, 35% of survey respondents report experiencing ransomware attacks, underscoring the heightened risks faced by the financial sector.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 7, 2025

According to the 2024 Thales Data Threat Report report, 61% cited secrets management as a top DevOps challenge. This lack of visibility leads to secrets sprawl, significantly increasing the risk of unauthorized access and data breaches.

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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. The stolen data is used both to commit fraud directly and indirectly. Encryption.

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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

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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