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Here’s how anyone with $20 can hire an IoT botnet to blast out a week-long DDoS attack

The Last Watchdog

To the contrary, DDoS attacks appear to be scaling up and getting more sophisticated in lock step with digital transformation; DDoS attacks today are larger, more varied and come at the targeted website from so many more vectors than ever before. This is borne out by Akamai Technologies’ Summer 2018 Internet Security/Web Attack Report.

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Securing Data in the Digital Transformation Era

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

According to our 2018 Global Data Threat Report , 67% of enterprises have been breached, with that percentage rate growing every year. As organizations continue to embrace digital transformation, greater amounts of sensitive data is created, stored and transferred in digital form putting more data at risk.

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2018 Thales Data Threat Report, Global Edition: Digital Transformation & Data Security

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

This morning we announced, in tandem with our partner 451 Research, the Global Edition of the 2018 Thales Data Threat Report. The twin drivers of the problem are increased threats and the drive to digitally transform how organizations deliver value and revenue. Digital transformation drives massive change.

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What companies need to know about ‘SecOps’ — the path to making ‘digital transformation’ secure

The Last Watchdog

With the digital transformation really just beginning, in cloud computing and IoT, it makes sense to bring security into the DevOps conversation. I visited with Dan Cornell at Black Hat USA 2018. But for all the upside, there is a downside to the digital transformation. Oil and water. Roadmap needed.

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Digital Transformation starts with the Employees

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

As in previous years, digital transformation remained a key theme at the event as well as discussions around artificial intelligence (AI) and IoT technologies impacting the workforce. No matter which opinion you agree with, digital transformation and new technologies will impact the workforce.

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MY TAKE: Can Hollywood’s highly effective ‘source-code’ security tools help make IoT safe?

The Last Watchdog

We met at Black Hat USA 2018 , where Hearn and O’Connor, came bearing a message about how these technologies, so heavily relied on by Hollywood, could play a starring role in shoring up the foundational layers of digital transformation — at the source code level. I asked O’Connor about this.

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Why 2018 Will Be the Trust Turning Point for the Digital Economy

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Its fundamental and transferrable value is fueling the digital transformation that organizations of all sizes, in all industries and around the world are undergoing. From cloud computing , to mobile devices to digital payments and the emerging applications of the IoT, organizations are re-shaping how they do business.