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GUEST ESSAY: How stricter data privacy laws have redefined the ‘filing’ of our personal data

The Last Watchdog

Companies are also often dealing with numerous kinds of storage, from relational databases to schema-less databases, to giant data dumps of unstructured data in, say, Amazon S3 data storage buckets. It’s no wonder that the global GDPR services market is expected to reach $4.4 billion by 2027. Less can be more.

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GUEST ESSAY: ‘Tis the season — to take proactive measures to improve data governance

The Last Watchdog

Sadly, data breaches often occur at this time of year. Recently we’ve seen major news stories about breaches at Starwood Hotels and Quora. Related podcast: The need to lock down unstructured data. As I said, breaches cannot be 100 percent preventable, but there are a lot of ways to be proactive.

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DCAP Systems: Protecting Your Data with Advanced Technology

SecureWorld News

One of the most important responsibilities of security professionals is to avoid data breaches. At the same time, the IBM report reveals that it takes an average of 277 days to detect and contain a data breach. Data access control raises many questions not only among users but sometimes also among security professionals.

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How security professionals will rise to the challenge of cyber defense in 2022

CyberSecurity Insiders

By September of 2021, the number of publicly reported data breaches had already surpassed the total of the previous year by 17%. Increasingly, personal privacy is being viewed as a human right, and the way vendors handle consumer and employee data will determine how much the public trusts them and wants to conduct business with them.

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Can visibility be the key to better privacy?

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Probably also increasing the cost of any resultant data breach, as mentioned in the 2020 IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report. Having a partial understanding of your data or operating over a reduced area of the problem is like leaving the backdoor open. Discover the location of your data.

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How to Prepare for the Future of Healthcare Digital Security

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

While a stolen credit card has a time-limited value, PHI and electronic medical records (EMR) are packed with immutable data that can, and do, fetch hundreds of dollars per stolen record on illegal online markets. Healthcare Data Prized by Cybercriminals. For data in motion and in use. Which brings me to my next point.

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Sustainable Data Discovery for Privacy, Security, and Governance

SecureWorld News

And all of these applications, they process store and share personal information, and every single piece of it can become a data breach region. By adding a multi-layer machine learning analytic engine, we give the ability to read and understand the data and link all the pieces into the full picture represented in master catalog.