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Are Data Breaches the New Reality for Retail?

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

As retailers expand their digitization, they need to continually address cybersecurity since the challenge to secure critical and confidential data will only increase. senior retail IT security managers and 96 IT security managers from retailers across the globe. retailers experiencing a breach in the last year.

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

eSecurity Planet

Most organizations express confidence in their current status and budgets, but also expect to experience at least one data breach in 2024. Compromised Credentials Compromised identities from phishing, info stealers, keyloggers, and bad password habits provide the entry point for most ransomware attacks and data breaches.

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Who’s more of a threat – insiders or external threat actors?

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

In past years’ Thales Data Threat Reports, we asked IT security pros around the world separate questions about whom they believed were the riskiest internal threats and external threats. It seems clear that for most organizations, protecting their data is a secondary priority. So what’s going on?

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Thales and Palo Alto Networks collaborate to offer mid-markets the enterprise protection

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

The problem of the increasing threat landscape is equally reflected in the 2022 Thales Data Threat Report. As more companies move along the path toward digital transformation, the need for better security has never been more evident. Data Security. More About This Author >.

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Organizations Need a New NetSec Approach, Reveals Verizon’s 2021 Mobile Security Index

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Many of those security events bore fruit for attackers. 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.

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Federal Agency Data is Under Siege

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Amy Saunders spoke with Nick Jovanovic, VP Federal of Thales eSecurity Federal (a division of Thales Defense & Security, Inc.), to discuss the findings of the 2018 Thales Data Threat Report, Federal Edition. This year’s report is especially relevant because it tells us federal agency data is under siege.

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

SecureWorld News

Identity Governance (IGA) Challenges abound in the enterprise that are opening the door to greater compliance and security risk. Ninety-five percent of cybersecurity breaches are due to human error (Symantec Internet Security Threat Report).

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