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MY TAKE: How ‘credential stuffing’ and ‘account takeovers’ are leveraging Big Data, automation

The Last Watchdog

A pair of malicious activities have become a stunning example of digital transformation – unfortunately on the darknet. Significant changes to authentication models may be required to alter the growth trajectory of these attacks.” In terms of wreaking havoc, credential stuffing and account takeovers are just getting warmed up.

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SHARING INTEL: Here’s why it has become so vital to prioritize the security-proofing of APIs

The Last Watchdog

Cyber assaults – from data theft to credential stuffing to account take over — today often start with legitimately accessing a client-facing application and then manipulating an API to extract valuable data, launch a DoS attack, or perform an account takeover. A startling 95% of API attacks happen on authenticated endpoints.

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Organizations Struggle with Cloud Security in the Post Digital Transformation Era – Highlights from our 2020 Data Threat Report-Global Edition

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

2020 marks the launch of the Thales Data Threat Report-Global Edition for the seventh consecutive year. This year the report focuses on the post digital transformation era. Yet, despite their significance, rates of data encryption and tokenization are low. Sage advice: encrypt everything.

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Q&A: Here’s why it has become vital for companies to deter ‘machine-identity thieves’

The Last Watchdog

We’re undergoing digital transformation , ladies and gentlemen. And we’re in a nascent phase where clever advances are blossoming even as unprecedented data breaches arise in parallel. LW: Can you frame what’s going on with identities when it comes to digital transformation? Hudson: Sure. Hudson: Yes, exactly.

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Emerging security challenges for Europe’s emerging technologies

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

This underpins the digital transformation imperative most of them face today, and the huge responsibility that rests on the shoulders of the CIO. The vast majority (84%) of enterprises are now using, or planning to use, digitally transformative technologies – such as big data, containers, blockchain and the Internet of Things (IoT).

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Cybersecurity Predictions for 2023: My Reflections

Jane Frankland

Digital transformation. Despite contracting world economies due to a few dynamics colliding (Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, high inflation, and shrinking economies), more companies will be investing in digital transformation solutions. Sustainability.

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MY TAKE: Why monetizing data lakes will require applying ‘attribute-based’ access rules to encryption

The Last Watchdog

They outlined why something called attribute-based encryption, or ABE, has emerged as the basis for a new form of agile cryptography that we will need in order to kick digital transformation into high gear. Data lakes continue to swell because each second of every day, every human, on average, is creating 1.7