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 24, 2023

Navigating the Multicloud Maze: Insights from the Thales Data Threat Report, Healthcare Edition madhav Wed, 10/25/2023 - 04:39 In the ever-evolving landscape of data security, the healthcare industry stands at a critical juncture. However, while sensitive data is on the rise, encryption practices still have room for improvement.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 17, 2019

Data breaches are at an epidemic level with healthcare organizations experiencing the highest attack rate compared to any other industry studied according to the new Thales 2019 Data Threat Report-Healthcare Edition. They’re counting on the fact that only 38% or less of healthcare organizations encrypt data.

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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. What is HIPAA?

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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

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Thales 2023 Data Threat Report: The Increased Telco Cybersecurity Challenges in the 5G Era madhav Tue, 09/12/2023 - 05:15 Telecommunications firms have always faced a unique set of security challenges. The rapid shift to higher levels of digitization has meant they have much more dispersed infrastructure and data to protect.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Among some of the interesting key findings of the Thales 2019 Data Threat Report-Australia/New Zealand Edition are: 95% of Australian/New Zealand organisations use sensitive data in digitally transformative technologies. Less than 36% encrypt their sensitive data.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 18, 2019

In response to this need, Thales has partnered with VMware, a global leader in cloud infrastructure and business mobility, and offers our Vormetric Transparent Encryption with VMware Cloud on AWS. And please download our “ VMware and Thales Secure the Hybrid Cloud ” solutions brief. The post Is Your Data Safe in the Cloud?

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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. Our annual Thales Data Threat Report-Federal Edition , released today, found that 98% of federal agencies are storing sensitive data within a digitally transformative environment. Federal Agencies.”

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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

JUNE 12, 2019

And as our 2019 Thales Data Threat Report – Europe Edition recently revealed, many of these businesses become extremely vulnerable during digital transformation, with those in Europe being no different. Encryption, encryption, encryption. The financial and reputational damage could prove to be severe.

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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

MARCH 24, 2024

Data Security Trends: 2024 Report Analysis madhav Mon, 03/25/2024 - 05:08 Amid ongoing economic uncertainty and a progressively complex threat landscape, businesses are trying to navigate increasingly stringent regulatory requirements while bolstering their security posture. Download the full Thales 2024 Thales Data Threat Report now.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

As stated in a recent Eset report , the Shade infection had an increase during October 2018, keeping a constant trend until the second half of December 2018, taking a break around Christmas, and then resuming in mid-January 2019 doubled in size (shown in Figure 1). Trend of malicious JavaScript downloading Shade ransomware (source: ESET).

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 14, 2019

Below are six take-aways that encapsulate the essence of the discussion: Our 2019 Thales Data Threat Report- Federal Edition illustrates that the federal government continues to be under attack! They typically do not provide encryption, seamless upgrades for flaws and updates, or optics.

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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. Everything. 10 at 2:00 pm ET.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

Cyber criminals may damage, destroy, steal, encrypt, expose, or leak data as well as cause harm to a system. The 2022 SonicWall Cyber Threat Report found that all types of cyberattacks increased in 2021. Encrypted threats spiked 167%, ransomware increased 105%, and 5.4 Ransomware. See the Top Rootkit Scanners.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Data security professionals also make ambitious plans, but implementation rates are too low – a key finding in the 2019 Thales Data Threat Report-Financial Services Edition. Here’s a look at four common issues highlighted in the 2019 Thales Data Threat Report-Financial Services Edition and tips for overcoming them.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 6, 2019

As published in our recent Data Threat Report- Federal Edition , the rush puts sensitive data at risk because modernization efforts create new vulnerabilities with security measures being implemented after the fact. Insider threats are real.

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Security Boulevard

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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Webroot

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

In our 2021 Webroot BrightCloud ® Threat Report , we found overall infection rates to be rising fastest in the healthcare, non-profit and arts/entertainment/recreation industries. In fact, the median ransom demand in 2021, according to advanced findings from our upcoming threat report, was $70,000.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 25, 2019

This year’s Thales Data Threat Report-Healthcare Edition shows that cloud usage in the U.S. Encryption technologies are the top tools needed – and healthcare’s data encryption usage for critical systems is low. And the cloud is arguably the most daunting of these environments, and the most widely deployed. 12 at 2:00 p.m.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 15, 2023

According to the S&P Global Market Intelligence 2023 Data Threat Report custom survey commissioned by Thales, more than four-fifths (83%) of organizations are concerned about the effect of sovereignty and privacy legislation on cloud deployment plans. Data-at-rest encryption is the protection of stored data throughout its life cycle.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The first infection usually aims to install a downloader, which attempts to download other malicious implants from legitimate web services. KeyPlug is a modular backdoor with the capability of communicating to its server via several network communication protocols set in its XOR-encrypted embedded configuration block.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The IBM 2023 Cost of a Data Breach Report , for example, highlights the continuous financial burden on retailers, which, coupled with potential reputational damage, emphasizes the dire need for retailers to prioritize and bolster their cybersecurity measures. Today, using Point-to-Point Encryption (P2PE) isn't just a luxury; it's a necessity.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 23, 2019

According to the 2019 Thales Data Threat Report-India Edition , digital transformation is well underway in India, with 41% of Indian respondents saying they are either aggressively disrupting the markets they participate in or embedding digital capabilities that enable greater organizational agility.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Today, at the dawn of the 4th industrial revolution, manufacturers of all kinds are a tempting and vulnerable high-value target for threat actors because of their high intrinsic worth and the dangers of economic harm from supply chain disruptions. Todd Moore | VP, Encryption Products. Survey’s key findings. Conclusions. Data Security.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

In our recently launched 2019 Thales Data Threat Report- Global Edition , 60% of organizations say they have been breached at some point in their history, with 30% experiencing a breach within the past year alone. Before you download, send or receive information – ask yourself a few quick and simple questions: Who asked for it?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

According to the 2020 Thales Data Threat Report-Global Edition , 30% of the respondents in the financial services sector are either aggressively disrupting their market or are embedding digital capabilities that enable greater enterprise agility. Encryption and tokenization rates remain low. Encryption. Data security.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Although there are many approaches to protecting data in transit and at rest, encryption is a foundational pillar in data security. Data encryption must be supplemented by robust cryptographic key management to ensure that corporate information is effectively protected.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

You can certainly depend on the wisdom of the crowd, but for several years running, the Thales Data Threat Report-Global Edition consensus has been that encryption is the best way to protect data in the cloud. Finding an encryption vendor whom you trust; 2. In terms of Bring Your Own Encryption solutions….

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 6, 2024

DarkComet has been available for download for over a decade, and has been researched thoroughly over the years. Deploying DarkComet Malware DarkComet malware deployment is typically conducted using several methods: Phishing Emails: Attackers often use phishing emails to trick victims into downloading and executing DarkComet.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Just as you wouldn't feel comfortable if a shop left your credit card information on a sticky note, PCI DSS ensures that businesses treat your payment data with extra care, keeping it encrypted, well-protected, and out of reach from anyone who shouldn't have access to it. PCI compliance made easy. Thales Top PCI DSS 4.0 Thales Top PCI DSS 4.0

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The Thales 2024 Data Security Directions Council Report: Digital Sovereignty: Is Your Data Truly Yours? According to the 2024 Thales Data Threat Report , it ranks among the top three emerging security concerns. It enforces data integrity and confidentiality through robust encryption and stringent access controls.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 23, 2019

In the 2019 Thales Data Threat Report-Retail Edition , we found that cloud usage continues to proliferate rapidly: over 95% of all retail respondents said they plan to use all three of the common cloud environment types – Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) – within 12 months.

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