Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 12, 2025

Breaking the Barriers to a Password-Free Life in Enterprise: Meet SafeNet eToken Fusion NFC PIV security key madhav Thu, 03/13/2025 - 06:46 As large organizations increasingly shift towards passwordless solutions, the benefits are clear: enhanced user experience, improved security, and significant cost savings.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 7, 2025

Traditional Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), while a step up from password-only security, is no longer enough to fight modern phishing schemes. As malefactors hone their methods, entities must adopt phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication to secure their digital identities.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 31, 2025

Level Up Your Security: Embrace Passkeys and Phishing-Resistant 2FA andrew.gertz@t Fri, 01/31/2025 - 15:17 Celebrate Change Your Password Day and 2FA Day by embracing passkeys and phishing-resistant 2FA. Redefining Change Your Password Day Well start with Change Your Password Day because, frankly, its a little complicated.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The answer is three-fold: data encryption, strong access controls, and application security. Encrypting data at rest and in transit ensures that sensitive information remains secure even if stolen by cybercriminals. Encryption is critical to data security, rendering stolen data unreadable and unusable to unauthorized parties.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

So, what are we doing about encryption?”. A spokesperson later added that this will focus on ensuring universal encryption of passport numbers. As seen in the recent Marriott breach, customers’ sensitive credit card information was encrypted, but their stored password numbers were not – posing a risk for potential identify theft.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The safe handling of private data, including passwords, and other credentials, is known as secrets management. Access control methods, encryption, and secure storage solutions are important components. Let’s look at the role of secrets management for financial services. Why is secrets management crucial for financial services?

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 11, 2018

We’re undergoing digital transformation , ladies and gentlemen. As such, Hudson argues persuasively that the root of the matter comes down to the need for organizations to keep a much closer account of access logons and encryption keys. LW: Can you frame what’s going on with identities when it comes to digital transformation?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 14, 2021

Due to the remote work boom and accelerated digital transformation projects, many of those conversations and exchanges are online. With such elevated rights, the adversary has the power to encrypt data for a ransom, exfiltrated and sell sensitive customer and employee details on the Dark Web, and halt business operations.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 2, 2025

This surge is driven by a convergence of factorsfrom a spike in ransom ware attacks to the digital transformation of healthcarethat CISOs and healthcare executives must understand and act upon. Digital transformation - cloud and IoT exposure: The healthcare industry's rapid digitization is expanding the attack surface.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 21, 2024

For too long, Identity and Access Management (IAM) has played a background role—a fundamental but ‘invisible’ part of digital transformation. Digital Twins: What’s IAM got to do with it? How can your organization finally get rid of the password headache? What’s happening with digital identity wallets?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Go Beyond FIDO Standards: Best Practices When Deploying FIDO Security Keys in Enterprise madhav Thu, 02/20/2025 - 06:22 Initially designed for the consumer market, the FIDO (Fast IDentity Online) standard aims to replace passwords with more secure authentication methods for online services. While recent versions, like FIDO2.1,

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 13, 2022

What’s more, 99 percent of the IT pros said they believed their customers would switch to a competitor should they lose trust in the enterprise’s digital security. And nearly half, 47 percent, said they’ve stopped doing business with a company after losing trust in that company’s digital security. Baked-in security.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 3, 2022

As digital transformation is advancing and automation is becoming an essential component of modern enterprises, collaboration between humans and machines is crucial. While people need usernames and passwords to identify themselves, machines also need to identify themselves to one another.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

At Thales we appreciate what lies ahead for security professionals and, as a result, this year at RSA (in our booth #N5445), some of the technologies we’ll be showcasing and discussing include data discovery, trusted access, cloud security and, of course, encryption. A post digital transformation world. 26, from 8:00 – 8:20 a.m.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 24, 2022

And studies have revealed that the newly developed file-encrypting malware is using an Open-source password management library for encryption and is having capabilities of remaining anonymous, ex-filtrate data, and having abilities to give control to remote servers. The third is something astonishing to read!

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 28, 2018

Silverfort has introduced new technology that is designed to help corporations address unprecedented authentication exposures spinning out of ‘digital transformation.’. This is what digital transformation is all about. Here are excerpts edited for clarity and length: LW: How did Silverfort get started?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 7, 2025

AI-powered social engineering makes scams more convincing, while stolen passwords enable criminals to log into corporate networks and move laterally unnoticed. But unlike passwords, biometric data cant be changed if stolen. Are We Sacrificing Safety for Simplicity? But at what cost?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Breaking Free from Passwords: Passkeys and the Future of Digital Services josh.pearson@t… Mon, 09/02/2024 - 15:14 As passkeys offer a more secure and convenient way to authenticate users, it is no surprise that industry experts agree that they will become the standard authentication method used worldwide.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 9, 2019

For decades, the cornerstone of IT security has been Public Key Infrastructure, or PKI , a system that allows you to encrypt and sign data, issuing digital certificates that authenticate the identity of users. Fortanix is supplying the advanced encryption technology underpinning Google’s new service.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The rise of IABs corresponds with the increase in digital transformation. Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, companies started implementing digital tools at an unprecedented pace. It’s far easier to steal and encrypt sensitive data when someone else manages the first and hardest step in the breach process.

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The Security Ledger

MARCH 18, 2020

» Related Stories Spotlight Podcast: How DU Telecom Manages Digital Transformation Risk Spotlight Podcast: The Demise of the Password may be closer than you think! Also: small and medium sized businesses are the majority of. Read the whole entry. » As Cyber Attacks Mount, Small Businesses seek Authentication Fix.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2020

First, the identities of any two digital entities – a sensor and a control server, for instance, or even a microservice and a container — must be authenticated, and, second, the data exchanged between any two such digital instances must be encrypted. LW: What role does PKI play in all of this?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

These criminals are usually after insecure passwords; therefore, the use of modern passwordless authentication methods, like passkeys , is a great way to prevent these scams from happening. They can also automate sending these messages to reach a wider audience of targets and increase their payout.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 4, 2022

It's slightly different from a standard ransomware attack—encrypting a user's files is a secondary concern. Essentially, leakware attacks demand victims pay a ransom to accomplish two things: recover their encrypted data and prevent confidential, sensitive information from being disseminated. What is leakware? Adopt cloud services.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 8, 2024

When FIDO authenticators are mismanaged, the following consequences may occur: You risk being a victim of fraud, phishing, and account takeover if you employ less secure authentication techniques for the FIDO authenticator, like username/password or SMS OTP.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 26, 2025

Increased Password Length : The minimum password length will increase to twelve characters unless a system does not support this length, in which case the minimum remains at eight characters. Our solutions discover, classify, and protect card data with encryption and tokenization, all underpinned by FIPS-validated key management.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

The “S” stands for secure and is the guarantee that all communications between the browser and the website are encrypted. Typically, something you know (such as a password) and something you have (such as code that’s been texted to you.)

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 5, 2023

It’s no longer just about passwords or encryption, but also where your data can be accessed from. EB Control: Perfectly Positioned for Secure Digital Transformation In today’s era of digital transformation, data and its security have taken center stage. Your data has never been safer.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The answer is three-fold: data encryption, strong access controls, and application security. Encrypting data at rest and in transit ensures that sensitive information remains secure even if stolen by cybercriminals. Encryption is critical to data security, rendering stolen data unreadable and unusable to unauthorized parties.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 23, 2018

Enterprises also frequently run into trouble because they deploy many disparate security solutions to protect cloud technologies, over-simplify basic security protocols like using the same password for everything or don’t take the notion that security can be a shared responsibility seriously enough.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Strong authentication beyond passwords (e.g., Weve seen high-profile breaches where attackers exploited weak identity verification processes to gain unauthorized access. A strong B2B IAM solution should support: Adaptive identity verification, requiring additional proof for high-risk actions. passkeys, FIDO2, biometrics). Yes and no.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 21, 2024

For too long, Identity and Access Management (IAM) has played a background role—a fundamental but ‘invisible’ part of digital transformation. Digital Twins: What’s IAM got to do with it? How can your organization finally get rid of the password headache? What’s happening with digital identity wallets?

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Use Strong Passwords and a Password Manager Sadly, less than 40% of all online users use a distinct password for each account, according to the National Cybersecurity Alliance 2023 Oh Behave! However, even strong and unique passwords have well-documented limitations and risks. Key Cybersecurity Practices to Implement 1.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 12, 2025

Breaking the Barriers to a Password-Free Life in Enterprise: Meet SafeNet eToken Fusion NFC PIV security key madhav Thu, 03/13/2025 - 06:46 As large organizations increasingly shift towards passwordless solutions, the benefits are clear: enhanced user experience, improved security, and significant cost savings.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 6, 2024

Protect Your Data: Encrypt Sensitive Data The best way to protect sensitive data is to attach security directly to the data itself with encryption. It is important to encrypt sensitive data in every state: at rest, in motion, and in use.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 7, 2025

Traditional Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), while a step up from password-only security, is no longer enough to fight modern phishing schemes. As malefactors hone their methods, entities must adopt phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication to secure their digital identities.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

Security services and tools include anti-DDoS , SOCaaS , web application firewalls (WAF), data encryption , and more. Other features include applying secure socket layer (SSL) or transport layer security (TLS) and AES-256 encryption. Also Read: Best Encryption Software & Tools for 2021. EnterpriseDB.

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