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‘Tis the season for protecting your devices with Webroot antivirus

Webroot

According to our 2021 Webroot BrightCloud Threat Report , on average, 18.8% Antivirus software offers threat protection by securing all of your music files, photo galleries and important documents from being destroyed by malicious programs. Do I really need antivirus? In a word, yes. Benefits of antivirus.

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Protecting Medical Data Against a Cyber-Attack Pandemic

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Patient records were always valued by attackers for launching sophisticated insurance fraud schemes, purchasing medical supplies or drugs, or committing other types of fraud including identity theft. and to “… prioritize identification of the unclassified data considered to be the most sensitive and under the greatest threat.

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What is a Cyberattack? Types and Defenses

eSecurity Planet

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. Crimeware and spyware.

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Protecting Medical Data Against a Cyber-Attack Pandemic

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Patient records were always valued by attackers for launching sophisticated insurance fraud schemes, purchasing medical supplies or drugs, or committing other types of fraud including identity theft. and to “… prioritize identification of the unclassified data considered to be the most sensitive and under the greatest threat.

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Have We Become Apathetic About Breaches?

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Consumerization of the Threat. If we were discussing hacking attempts even a decade ago, the types of hacks we saw focused on credit card data, identity theft and corporate espionage. For example, are they encrypting their data? Do they mask critical information to guard against insider threats?

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Managing Digital Security as Risk and Complexity Rise

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

The Threat Level Is Rising. According to the 2018 Thales Data Threat Report : … Rates of successful breaches have reached an all-time high for both mid-sized and enterprise class organizations, with more than two-thirds (67%) of global organizations and nearly three fourths (71%) in the U.S. These include: User access control.

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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). Consequently, it minimizes the risk of individual identity theft by hackers.

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