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50% of CISOs say the push for rapid growth and digital transformation stalls cloud security

SC Magazine

Visitors walk by a cloud sign at the Telekom stand at the CeBIT 2017 Technology Trade Fair on March 21, 2017. New research found that half of CISOs surveyed say their organization’s desire for growth and rapid digital transformation has become detrimental to achieving data security in the cloud.

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MY TAKE: Log4j’s big lesson – legacy tools, new tech are both needed to secure modern networks

The Last Watchdog

By no means has the cybersecurity community been blind to the complex security challenges spinning out of digital transformation. Its rather mundane function is to record events in a log for a system administrator to review and act upon, later. Log4j, for instance, is a ubiquitous logging library.

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Protecting America’s Critical Infrastructure

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

If you’re like millions of other Americans, your TV is connected to the Internet and uses technology generated from the nation’s power grid. But the energy sector also underpins our emergency and response systems, our hospitals and healthcare, our schools, our businesses, and virtually everything we do as a society.

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The Challenges in Building Digital Trust

SecureWorld News

The cyberattack was the cause of this issue, of course, but the real problem at hand was that citizens had no warning that their emergency services could fail this way, nor any estimate for when the systems would be fully restored. There weren't enough users of ARPANET to warrant any real scrutiny of everyone's activities.

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Data Protection in the Digital Transformation Era

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

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. With the global spend on digital transformation slated to reach a whopping $2.3

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MY TAKE: How SMBs can improve security via ‘privileged access management’ (PAM) basics

The Last Watchdog

As digital transformation kicks into high gear, it’s certainly not getting any easier to operate IT systems securely, especially for small- and medium-sized businesses. A number of big-name IAM vendors are heavily pitching cool advances in enterprise-grade IAM and PAM technologies, he says.

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MY TAKE: Why monetizing data lakes will require applying ‘attribute-based’ access rules to encryption

The Last Watchdog

But it’s coming, in the form of driverless cars, climate-restoring infrastructure and next-gen healthcare technology. They outlined why something called attribute-based encryption, or ABE, has emerged as the basis for a new form of agile cryptography that we will need in order to kick digital transformation into high gear.