Schneier on Security

MARCH 15, 2018

They're terrible at big data analysis. They use cognitive shortcuts, and can only keep a few data points in their head at a time. This essay previously appeared in the March/April 2018 issue of IEEE Security & Privacy. They're not creative or adaptive. They don't understand context.

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The Hacker News

MAY 18, 2021

In July 2018, when Guizhou-Cloud Big Data (GCBD) agreed to a deal with state-owned telco China Telecom to move users' iCloud data belonging to Apple's China-based users to the latter's servers, the shift raised concerns that it could make user data vulnerable to state surveillance.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 4, 2023

Adding more embarrassment to last year’s Twitter Data Breach, a new finding on the web has discovered a new database dump exposed on an online hacking forum. It appears to be a big data leak as information related to about 235 million users was found by a cyber intelligence firm named Hudson Rock, based in Israel.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 23, 2021

With many employees now working remotely, securing company data isn’t as straightforward as it used to be. As of 2018, more than 2 million people were working abroad for U.S. While she enjoys tackling topics across the technology space, she’s most passionate about educating readers on cybersecurity and Big Data.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 12, 2018

In this age of big data, the concept is fitting, because this kind of information is increasingly being used to identify individuals and even machines. In the following, I focus on the analytics component, how it is increasingly used across enterprises, and why it is important to protect big data. Big Data Analytics.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

At the same time, digital transformation has redoubled the complexity of company networks, catapulting us from Big Data to Very Big Data. Consider that 90% of the data that exists in the world was created in two years — 2017 and 2018 — and that our digital universe is on track to swell from 3.2

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 28, 2018

Our favorite presentation was a talk called “Reaping and Breaking Keys at Scale: When Crypto Meets Big Data.” The post Highlights from DefCon 2018 appeared first on Data Security Blog | Thales eSecurity. This is a clear sign that DefCon is growing and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. Keys at Scale.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 7, 2025

According to Erlingsson (2014), Google’s RAPPOR system collects user data while maintaining anonymity. Similarly, Abowd(2018) examined its integration with a census data collection framework, ensuring confidentiality. Despite its advantages, challenges like keeping data utility and optimizing privacy budgets persist.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 31, 2018

Data breaches are the new normal. According to our 2018 Global Data Threat Report , 67% of enterprises have been breached, with that percentage rate growing every year. Today, the vast majority of enterprises (94%) are using sensitive data in cloud, big data, IoT or mobile environments.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2019

The EU slammed the UK airline with a $230 million fine , and then hammered the US hotel chain with a $125 million penalty – the first major fines under the EU’s toughened General Data Protection Regulation , which took effect May 25, 2018. Related: Will GDPR usher in new age of privacy?

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Malwarebytes

MAY 4, 2021

Spectre is the name for a whole class of vulnerabilities discovered in January 2018 that affected huge numbers of modern computer processors that rely on a performance feature called speculative execution. What emerged in 2018 is that speculative execution opens the possibility of side-channel attacks. Speculative execution?

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

This skills deficit has been the top worry of IT pros for several years, according to tech consultancy ESG’s annual survey of IT pros; some 53% of the organizations participating in ESG’s 2018 -2019 poll reported a “problematic shortage” of cybersecurity skills. Digital transformation has only exacerbated this security skills gap.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Company Sector Year Status Vicarius Vulnerability management 2022 Private Dragos ICS and OT security 2021 Private Safeguard Cyber Risk management 2021 Private CyberGRX Risk management 2019 Private Signifyd Fraud protection 2018 Private RedOwl Security analytics 2015 Acquired: Forcepoint. Accel Investments. Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).

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Spinone

JANUARY 21, 2018

Many IT specialists are predicting that 2018 will be “the year of the cloud”, as companies increasingly have to deal with the backup needs of massive amounts of data, connect more and more devices to the Internet of Things , and start to appreciate the benefits that a cloud-based IT strategy can offer.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Companies are required to transform at a new pace because of technological advances and trends in IoT, artificial intelligence, big data and most recently, cryptocurrency. How can companies continue to innovate and transform while keeping important data secure? It is encouraging to see this type of adoption.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 3, 2019

What’s in that Big Data Lake? With the uptick in digital transformation that we’re seeing, Big Data is far and wide, bringing genuine security concerns with it. If you’re leading a global company with sensitive data from countries with data privacy laws (think: EU and GDPR today; U.S.

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IT Security Guru

AUGUST 18, 2023

Where DLP Started As it was stated so succinctly in Forbes , “Data loss prevention (DLP) has enjoyed a long and hype-filled life since the early 2000s.” Even before data became “big data”, protecting it was something of “big” importance. It was discontinued in 2018). That’s fair. Then all HTTPS broke loose.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 5, 2018

One of the top findings from the 2018 Thales Data Threat Report, Financial Services Edition was that data breaches in U.S. IT security pros in financial services organizations reporting that their organization already had a data breach – but breaches are increasing at alarming rates.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 22, 2019

IDG’s 2018 Cloud Computing Study tells us: Seventy-three percent of organizations have at least one application, or a portion of their computing infrastructure already in the cloud – 17% plan to do so within the next 12 months. But IDG also points out: Organizations are utilizing a mix of cloud delivery models.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 18, 2018

While retailers digitally transform their businesses to better serve the higher demands of their customers, they’re being challenged with safeguarding personal data to protect customers, partners and suppliers’ critical information. For more information on the 2018 Thales Data Threat Report-Retail Edition, please click here.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 16, 2018

Additionally, Vormetric Transparent Encryption now supports storage data encryption for servers running AWS Elastic Map Reduce (EMR) and Hortonworks for AWS customers utilizing S3, giving those customers protection for their big data environments. Alternatively, leave a comment below, or give me a shout on Twitter.

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Encryption Big data Backups Threat Reports 91

Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Why Your Security Data Lake Project Will … Well, Actually …. Long story why but I decided to revisit my 2018 blog titled “Why Your Security Data Lake Project Will FAIL!” However, we are not living in 2012 or 2018 anymore?—?we we are in 2022. Hi Alexes!).

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 5, 2018

In an effort to meet compliance requirements – and with an eye towards cutting costs – the healthcare industry has turned its attention towards embracing digitally transformative technologies, including cloud, big data, Internet of Things and containers. respondents reported using these technologies with sensitive data.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Failing to properly invest in data security means companies risk spending far more in the future on recovery expenditures and data breach fines after an incident. billion dollars since 2018. The post Achieving Trust: Bake Security into Your Brand appeared first on Data Security Blog | Thales eSecurity.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 26, 2018

As a result, database encryption has never been more crucial in order to protect the massive amounts of information that is held in the diverse mix of databases that large enterprises rely on today, including relational, SQL, NoSQL and big data environments. The post To Go Native, Or Not to Go Native.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Sixty-four percent of the more than 1,200 senior security executives from around the world, whom we surveyed for the 2018 Thales Data Threat Report (DTR), believe artificial intelligence (AI) “increases data security by recognizing and alerting on attacks,” while 43% believe AI “results in increased threats due to use as a hacking tool.”.

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Artificial Intelligence Big data Government Technology 89

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 23, 2018

According to Data Threat Report for 2018 , the majority of businesses don’t just operate in one cloud environment in a single location, but multiple. 94 percent of respondents are using sensitive data in cloud, big data, IoT or mobile environments. The numbers are truly revolutionary.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Beyond alleviating cloud concerns, encryption was identified as the top tool to drive the use of other digitally transformative technologies like, big data, IoT and containers, according to the 2020 Thales Data Threat Report-Global Edition. Yet, despite their significance, rates of data encryption and tokenization are low.

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Digital transformation Threat Reports Encryption Technology 79

Security Affairs

MAY 19, 2023

In March 2018, security researchers at Antivirus firm Dr. Web discovered that 42 models of low-cost Android smartphones are shipped with the Android.Triada.231 The only way to remove the threat is to wipe the smartphone and reinstall the OS. 231 banking malware. ” reads the analysis published by Trend Micro.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Whether it’s studying the performance of your direct competitors, using predictive analytics to determine what the future may hold for your industry, or analyzing employee performance and making optimization decisions based on that information, the entire point is to take data in and use it to make better-informed decisions.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 15, 2019

On June 28, 2018 the governor of California Jerry Brown signed into law with Assembly Bill No. state to pass its own data privacy law. 2) Identify the regulations that will need to be met, a good starting point is reviewing the Thales Data Security Compliance and Regulations eBook. (3) Looking into to the future.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 23, 2022

A separate law protecting children’s privacy was signed in 1998 as the public feared wanton collection of kids’ data online. Starting in 2018, US Congress members homed in on crafting a comprehensive data privacy law that would restrict how companies and organizations collect, use, share, and sell Americans’ data.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 11, 2018

What I’d originally planned to write about was a topic that directly applies – why retailers of all stripes are not investing in data security. To make a long story short – the top reason that they didn’t invest in data security was “lack of perceived need” at 52%.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 27, 2022

Intelligence: Combines ML, big data, and complex event processing analysis. Intelligence: Services leverage machine learning (ML), advanced analytics, cryptography, distributed ledgers, cognitive computing, and automation. Delivery: Can be deployed on-premises or in the cloud. See our previous look at Accenture/Symantec. Secureworks.

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Pen Test

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Its primary goal is to meticulously identify vulnerabilities inherent within wireless communication systems (Smith & Johnson, 2018). The rampant integration of wireless technologies into various facets of our lives has propelled the necessity to secure these communication channels to an unprecedented level (Ahmad, 2018).

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Centraleyes

DECEMBER 4, 2023

On May 25, 2018, Germany entered a new era of data protection. This marked a significant milestone, shaping global data privacy and setting the stage for enhanced regulations within Germany. Landmark cases in the 1990s and the GDPR’s rollout in 2018 shaped Germany’s evolving data protection landscape.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 14, 2018

In this blog, and in an accompanying one by my Thales colleague Juan Asenjo, we will discuss the subject of big data analytics, and how it is enabling a new behavior-based authentication evolution for easier and more robust identity management. This is a growing problem for credit card companies. Aite Group estimates U.S.

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