The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2018

If digital transformation, or DX , is to reach its full potential, there must be a security breakthrough that goes beyond legacy defenses to address the myriad new ways threat actors can insinuate themselves into complex digital systems. Network traffic analytics, or NTA , just may be that pivotal step forward.

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IT Security Guru

JANUARY 9, 2025

Resolution #2: Take a Quantum Leap in Security As quantum computing improves, organizations must prepare today to address the security risk posed by this emerging technology. Resolution #3: Protect Privileged Accounts in the Modern Digital Era In the face of evolving cybersecurity threats, protecting privileged accounts is essential.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 23, 2021

The challenge of embracing digital transformation while also quelling the accompanying cyber risks has never been greater for small- and mid-sized businesses. This applies to established companies migrating to cloud infrastructure as well as to digital native startups. Related: How ‘PAM’ improves authentication.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 24, 2022

Passwordless technology is certainly ready for prime time; innovative solutions from suppliers like Cisco’s Duo, Hypr, OneLogin and Veridium have been steadily gaining traction in corporate settings for the past few years. Security + efficiency. And the pace of adoption is quickening, Geri told me. Our brains just won’t do it.”.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 26, 2020

Doing authentication well is vital for any company in the throes of digital transformation. Digital commerce would fly apart if businesses could not reliably affirm the identities of all humans and all machines, that is, computing instances, that are constantly connecting to each other across the Internet. We spoke at RSA 2020.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Account recovery is traditionally highly vulnerable—a weak spot for the industry and a common vector for credential theft. Badge's technology allows organizations to use face, fingerprint, PIN, device characteristics, contextual, and other factors for authentication. To learn more about how Thales OneWelcome and Badge, Inc.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 22, 2019

As false predictions of digital transformation fade into the past, we are hurtling into a new era of business. Upwards of 84% of enterprises are using, or planning to use, digitally transformative technologies such as cloud, big data, containers, blockchain and the Internet of Things (IoT).

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 6, 2018

Compromised accounts came into play in data breaches of Uber, Tesla, Gemalto, Aviva, Equifax and many others. And with “digital transformation” accelerating, there are so many more weakly-secured login accounts just waiting to be maliciously manipulated. The good news is that this is a solvable problem.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 24, 2019

Accounting for third-party risks is now mandated by regulations — with teeth. What does this mean for company decision makers, going forward, especially as digital transformation and expansion of the gig economy deepens their reliance on subcontractors?

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 31, 2022

Advanced VM tools and practices are rapidly emerging to help companies mitigate a sprawling array of security flaws spinning out of digital transformation. Digital transformation has spawned a cascade of nuanced, abstract vulnerabilities – and they’re everywhere. That’s changing — dramatically.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 17, 2018

The technology that corrals malicious software circulating through desktop PCs, laptops and mobile devices has evolved into a multi-layered security technology referred to as ‘endpoint security.’. In this fast-evolving, digitally-transformed, business environment, enterprises in 2018 will spend a record $3.8

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 7, 2019

And so, as the nature of business changed and boards were forced to become increasingly accountable, the idea that issues like encryption are “too technical” for the boardroom transitioned from being an acceptable excuse to a legitimate liability. The digital transformation conundrum. If not, what’s holding us back?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 21, 2019

As false predictions of digital transformation fade into the past, we are hurtling into a new era of business. Upwards of 84% of enterprises are using, or planning to use, digitally transformative technologies such as cloud, big data, containers, blockchain and the Internet of Things (IoT).

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 8, 2021

In response, utilities broadened their digital transformation efforts to strengthen supply chains, workforce collaboration, customer service, cybersecurity and other aspects of the business. Successful players are making changes across the board to meet the new challenges.”.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 4, 2022

based supplier of networking technology. Over the past year, I’ve had several deep conversations parsing how APIs have emerged as a two-edged sword: APIs accelerate digital transformation, but they also vastly expand the attack surface of modern business networks.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 21, 2021

As digital transformation has quickened, it has become clear that electronic signatures are destined to become even more pervasively used to conduct business remotely. There are numerous ways for a bad actor to access a targeted email account. DigiCert is bringing PKI to bear to help make that happen.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The threat intelligence platforms and detection and response systems installed far and wide, in SMBs and large enterprises alike, simply are not doing a terrific job at accounting for how APIs are facilitating multi-staged network breaches. Meanwhile, the best security tooling money can was never designed to deal with this phenomenon.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Together for a Better Internet: Celebrating Safer Internet Day 2025 andrew.gertz@t Tue, 02/11/2025 - 14:57 At a time when technology is integral to our lives, Safer Internet Day (SID) has never been more relevant. At a time when technology is integral to our lives, SID has never been more relevant. With an estimated 5.8

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 10, 2020

Related : SMBs are ill-equipped to deal with cyber threats Without a cohesive cybersecurity framework, SMBs are falling further behind as digital transformation, or DX, ramps up. Embracing digital transformation becomes even more of a challenge without a dedicated platform to address vulnerabilities.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 31, 2025

Sure, changing your passwords will, in most cases, improve the security of your digital accounts but what if we could do away with passwords altogether? It has been a cornerstone of digital security for decades and has served us well. Start by auditing and updating passwords for all your critical accounts.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 7, 2021

The good news is that passwordless technologies are not only ready for prime time, they appear to be gaining traction in ways that suggest we’re on the cusp of a period of wide-scale adoption. Meanwhile, 64 percent saw value in improving user experiences and 21 percent said it could help achieve digital transformation.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 14, 2019

There’s no question the benefits of accelerating digital transformation are astounding. Founded in 2016 by cryptography experts from the Israeli Intelligence Corps’ elite 8200 cyber unit, Silverfort is backed by leading investors in cybersecurity technologies. There are also compliance drivers to account for.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 14, 2019

The firings came as a result of a massive data breach which routed through an HVAC contractor’s compromised account. But they did so without taking into account the hockey-stick rise in reliance on third-party suppliers. When Target fired both its CEO and CIO in 2014, it was a wake-up call for senior management.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 21, 2020

That's probably why Zero Trust is such a hot topic, especially for companies moving through their digital transformation. Zero Trust is not a technology, product, or solution. Zero Trust is a combination of technologies, implemented within an architecture developed to support a holistic security initiative and strategy.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 13, 2022

What’s more, 99 percent of the IT pros said they believed their customers would switch to a competitor should they lose trust in the enterprise’s digital security. And nearly half, 47 percent, said they’ve stopped doing business with a company after losing trust in that company’s digital security. Infusing digital trust.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Compounding the challenge, 46% of Account Takeover (ATO) attacks focused on API endpoints, up from 35% in 2022. Prompt Injection and AI Security Risks Generative AI is one of the most exciting technologies in the world right now. Once inside a target network, they could leverage the technology to gain further access.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

The attackers have a vast, pliable attack surface to bombard: essentially all of the externally-facing web apps, mobile apps and API services that organizations are increasingly embracing, in order to stay in step with digital transformation. One of the most intensive uses of criminal botnets is account takeovers.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 3, 2019

Related: Identity governance issues in the age of digital transformation. In this digitally transformed environment, maintaining perimeter defenses still has a place. Companies are increasingly deploying this new technology to replace contractors and to do automated tasks. Compliance matters.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 9, 2022

In many cases, hackers find it easier to attack these assets and use them as entry points into a company’s technology system than a direct attack. ASM technology helps organizations understand the full depth of their digital assets, allowing them to proactively address their riskiest exposed assets before they become a greater issue.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 28, 2018

Most individuals today are nonplussed when required, under certain circumstances, to retrieve a one-time passcode, pushed out in a text message to their smartphone, and then typing the passcode to gain access to a privileged account. This is what digital transformation is all about.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

That seminal tension still exists today even as the global cybersecurity community is moving to extend MFA as a key security component in much more complex digital systems spinning out of digital transformation. When it comes to verifying the identity of both human and machine accounts, Silverfort takes an umbrella view.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 2, 2025

This surge is driven by a convergence of factorsfrom a spike in ransom ware attacks to the digital transformation of healthcarethat CISOs and healthcare executives must understand and act upon. Digital transformation - cloud and IoT exposure: The healthcare industry's rapid digitization is expanding the attack surface.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 7, 2025

Identity at a Crossroads: Why Existential Identity Matters madhav Tue, 04/08/2025 - 04:31 Imagine waking up one morning to find your digital identity compromised your accounts hijacked, your access revoked, and your data in someone elses hands. But at what cost? Every convenience we embrace comes with a security trade-off.

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Cisco Security

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

More than just security, it calls for transparency, accountability, social responsibility, resiliency, and privacy. The digital wave requires that we balance technical capability that supports our purpose with the need to secure and trust those capabilities. A Trust Benchmark for Digital Transformation.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 29, 2021

We discussed why graph databases and graph analytics are so well-suited to advancing cybersecurity – especially as digital transformation accelerates towards, and within, the cloud. The one arena that’s a perfect fit for graph analytics – but where it has not yet been extensively leveraged – is in cloud security.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 7, 2023

The latest bill to address data threats is the RESTRICT Act , also known as the Restricting the Emergence of Security Threats that Risk Information and Communications Technology Act. The bill is intended to address technology-based threats, giving the U.S. If passed, it will significantly restrict data movement.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2019

Virsec is a leading innovator of memory protection technologies. A common technique to achieve persistence is to leverage stolen account logons, especially ones that give access to privileged accounts. Privilege account credentials are widely available for sale. This is where PowerShell comes back into play.

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