Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 12, 2019

At the 2019 RSA Conference, Pure Storage and Thales introduced Vormetric Transparent Encryption for Efficient Storage – the IT and security industries’ first end-to-end data encryption framework that realizes storage array data reduction. Storage Costs of Encrypted Data.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 24, 2022

This trend is demonstrated in the latest Thales Data Threat Report 2021 ; 55% of the survey respondents reported that more than 40% of their data now resides in a cloud platform. However, with technology innovation comes new risks, security challenges and threats. Todd Moore | VP, Encryption Products.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Phishing and Fraud Bad actors can defraud customers out of their money, financial details, and other sensitive data by using deception and social engineering. Top Risks for Retailers (and their Customers) Understanding the most common cyber risks is the first and most essential step for retailers to protect their businesses and customers.

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Webroot

JANUARY 7, 2022

Threats abound in 2021. In 2021, we witnessed so many competing shifts, many of which we detailed early on in our 2021 BrightCloud® Threat Report. This approach will be used to get around restrictions on reporting and on ransomware payments. Ransomware.

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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. Deepfakes create hyper-realistic fake videos or voices that fool people, and identity theft helps attackers pretend to be someone else to steal data.

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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

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Nearly half (47%) of the respondents of the 2023 Thales Data Threat Report reported that cyberattacks are increasing in volume and severity. Meanwhile, organizations continue to invest in digital transformation by utilizing the efficiencies and elasticity offered by cloud service providers.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 20, 2021

The FBI’s Cyber Division received as many as 4,000 complaints of digital attacks a day in H1 2020, reported by The Hill. Encryption. Encryption Key Management. Ashvin Kamaraju | Vice President of Engineering, Strategy & Innovation. That’s a 400% increase compared to what investigators saw prior to the pandemic.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

According to the SonicWall Cyber Threat Report, the global volume of ransomware is increasing by 98%. Organizations have started figuring out that they have data everywhere and a lack of security controls to secure, encrypt and manage the data. Phishing Targeted Attacks. Data security is going to be a big bet in 2023.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 24, 2024

Securing the Journey to AI with Thales Sovereign Solutions for AWS josh.pearson@t… Mon, 06/24/2024 - 22:28 Encryption David Ortega | Principle Solution Architect More About This Author > Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world's largest cloud service provider. What Are GenAI Security Challenges?

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 24, 2024

Securing the Journey to AI with Thales Sovereign Solutions for AWS josh.pearson@t… Mon, 06/24/2024 - 22:28 Encryption David Ortega | Principle Solution Architect More About This Author > Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world's largest cloud service provider. What Are GenAI Security Challenges?

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Threat Intelligence Report Date: September 4, 2024 Prepared by: David Brunsdon, Threat Intelligence - Security Engineer, HYAS Malware, short for malicious software, refers to any software designed to harm, exploit or otherwise compromise the functionality and security of computers, networks and devices.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Recognize and Report Phishing According to the Thales 2024 Data Threat Report , phishing is the second fastest-growing attack. Despite the importance and the variety of MFA methods, Thales 2024 DTR report shows that only 46% of the organizations use multi-factor authentication for more than 40% of their employees.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 8, 2022

The Verizon report includes a startling statistic that appeared in the 2022 Thales Data Threat Report that “two-fifths of organizations are not confident that their current security systems could effectively secure the remote work environment.”. Todd Moore | VP, Encryption Products. Security is a shared responsibility.

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McAfee

JULY 29, 2021

The growing adoption of web-based protocols and their subsequent employment by cybersecurity adversaries for launching targeted malware attacks, often hidden within encrypted traffic, saw the emergence of next-generation firewall (NGFW) solutions. The distributed workforce has expanded the threat landscape at an alarming rate.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 6, 2024

Threat Intelligence Report Date: August 6, 2024 Prepared by: David Brunsdon, Threat Intelligence - Security Engineer, HYAS Dynamic DNS (DDNS) is a service that automatically updates the Domain Name System (DNS) in real-time to reflect changes in the IP addresses of a domain. Want more threat intel on a weekly basis?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

In 2023, 74% of all breaches include the human element, meaning people were involved through mistakes, misuse of privileges, use of stolen credentials, or social engineering tactics. As reported in the 2024 Thales Data Threat Report , ransomware attacks are more common with 28% of survey takers experiencing an attack (up from 22% last year).

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Retail Data breaches Digital transformation Risk 71

SecureList

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

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. We have been tracking this threat actor for several years and previously published an APT threat report describing its malicious operations.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 7, 2025

Todays threat actors use AI to craft compelling phishing campaigns and advanced social engineering tactics to slip past MFA, resulting in credential theft and account takeovers. Traditional Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), while a step up from password-only security, is no longer enough to fight modern phishing schemes.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

In 2023, 74% of all breaches include the human element, meaning people were involved through mistakes, misuse of privileges, use of stolen credentials, or social engineering tactics. As reported in the 2024 Thales Data Threat Report , ransomware attacks are more common with 28% of survey takers experiencing an attack (up from 22% last year).

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Retail Data breaches Digital transformation Risk 64

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Recognize and Report Phishing According to the Thales 2024 Data Threat Report , phishing is the second fastest-growing attack. Despite the importance and the variety of MFA methods, Thales 2024 DTR report shows that only 46% of the organizations use multi-factor authentication for more than 40% of their employees.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 30, 2022

These include: Users in ‘mobile free’ environments such as medical labs, hospital wards, factory floors, engineering environments. RDP gateways are accessed over HTTPS connections (port 443) protected through the TLS encryption protocol. However, there are many situations where users cannot rely on Push OTP. Data security.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 19, 2024

We came across a threat actor that went further to hide their C2 domains by using a simple form of encryption known as a “Substitution Cipher.” A substitution cipher is one of the oldest and simplest methods of encryption. If it’s encrypted, one would probably need to find (or guess) the secret key.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 14, 2025

The attacker interacts with ChatGPT or a jail broken equivalent initially, for instance, by setting up the prompt engineering such that the malwares queries trigger certain responses. For example, an IDS may have a rule alert on powershell keyword over HTTP; however, this powershell keyword might appear only inside an encrypted AI response.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 12, 2018

The 2018 Data Threat Report commissioned by Thales and conducted by 451 Research revealed 99% of respondents (a sample of 1,200 senior security executives from around the globe) are using or planning to use big data. Industry best practices call for the use of robust encryption solutions to protect sensitive and personal data.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2021

On January 25, the Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) announced that a North Korean-related threat actor had targeted security researchers. The contents are disguised as GIF image files, but contain encrypted commands from the C2 server and command execution results. Final thoughts.

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Trend Micro

JULY 2, 2025

AI offers a wealth of capabilities that can help to improve: Data protection : AI can be used to discover, classify and encrypt sensitive information, as well as monitor access to data stores and flag immediately if they have been breached. That’s just the tip of the iceberg.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 6, 2024

this week in a joint document that offers network and communications-infrastructure engineers recommendations for strengthening network visibility and hardening systems. According to NBC News, Greene also recommended that Americans use encrypted messaging apps to protect themselves from Salt Typhoon.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 18, 2023

Be in control of your encryption keys and their location, and how to control access to your sensitive data and digital services to comply with emerging data sovereignty requirements. By attending our live sessions at the Thales booth, you will learn how to: Discover and classify your data wherever it resides.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

In addition, telemedicine has generated a larger pool for potential phishing scams as well as other socially-engineered, and technically based, attacks (e.g., The degree of digitalization and the scientific efforts for the development of a COVID-19 vaccine have further increased the threat surface. ransomware).

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 12, 2024

Threat Intelligence Report Date: August 12, 2024 Prepared by: David Brunsdon, Threat Intelligence - Security Engineer, HYAS Threat Actors Exploiting Legitimate Services to Disguise Traffic Recently, the HYAS Threat Intelligence team has noticed an increase in malware communicating with subdomains under the ply.gg

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Attacks that we see today impacting single agent systems, such as data poisoning, prompt injection, or social engineering to influence agent behavior, could all be vulnerabilities within a multi-agent system. What the Practitioners Predict Jake Bernstein, Esq.,

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 10, 2021

The recent Executive Order by President Biden demonstrated this reality in the most profound manner - agencies have 180 days to “adopt multi-factor authentication and encryption for data at rest and in transit.” and “…prioritize identification of the unclassified data considered to be the most sensitive and under the greatest threat”.

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