Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Encryption, data sovereignty, multifactor authentication and website cookies are all vital ideas and technologies to keep consumers’ personal data safe – but research released this month reveals widespread confusion. Encryption ensures that, if they are able to access sensitive data, it remains protected.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 26, 2021

Even when banking organizations are upgrading security posture to safeguard sensitive financial information, hackers can steal the data intelligently by tying known vulnerabilities together, and making it turn out to be a potential attack. The stolen data is used both to commit fraud directly and indirectly. Stolen credentials.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 6, 2020

With increasing data breaches and unsuspecting users more vulnerable than ever before, cybersecurity situational awareness has never been more important. Discovering where all data is stored will not only help identify the types of data, but pinpoint where the most sensitive information is kept. Pass on passwords.

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Security Affairs

JULY 23, 2021

The following statistics on data breaches and enterprise security provide important context to the importance of managing user access to corporate resources: The Verizon 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report found that in 61 percent of instances of data breaches, stolen credentials were involved.

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Security Affairs

MAY 9, 2021

Experts found critical authentication bypass flaw in HPE Edgeline Infrastructure Manager UNC2529, a new sophisticated cybercrime gang that targets U.S.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 17, 2019

Likening this flu scenario to a data breach, 70 percent of healthcare organizations report that they’re sick and the majority are not taking proven and adequate measures to stay well. With the chance of exposure being so high, where’s the obvious flurry of activity to protect sensitive data, even as the threat landscape expands?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 7, 2020

Careful planning and forward-thinking security is the best way to protect your most precious asset – your data – either while it is in transit or at rest. Whether the data breach is from stolen identities or human error, privacy breaches of unencrypted data can result in severe penalties under data protection regulations such as GDPR or CCPA.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The Retail Cyber Threat Landscape Time and again, the retail industry has found itself in the crosshairs of cybercriminals. Data breaches in the retail sector illustrate the vulnerabilities inherent to this industry, emphasizing the need for robust cybersecurity measures. Governments: Look to global benchmarks.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

Most organizations express confidence in their current status and budgets, but also expect to experience at least one data breach in 2024. Compromised Credentials Compromised identities from phishing, info stealers, keyloggers, and bad password habits provide the entry point for most ransomware attacks and data breaches.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Protecting Consumer Data is Priority #1. In our 2018 Data Threat Report-Retail Edition , we found 50% of respondents reported a data breach this past year, so it goes without saying that the holiday shopping season is a prime time for cyber criminals to target both retailers and consumers alike.

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Retail Data breaches Mobile Threat Reports 70

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 23, 2022

The 2022 Thales Data Threat Report, based on data from a survey of almost 2,800 respondents from 17 countries across the globe, illustrates these trends and changes. Malware and accidental human error are the biggest security threats. Ransomware’s severity, frequency and impact has altered breach economics.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Cybercriminals and fraudsters have become innovative enough to exploit the expanding attack surface of financial institutions and turn risks into threats. Disturbingly, 35% of survey respondents report experiencing ransomware attacks, underscoring the heightened risks faced by the financial sector.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 1, 2022

The problem of the increasing threat landscape is equally reflected in the 2022 Thales Data Threat Report. While the majority of these advancements operate behind the scenes, protecting the organization transparently, authentication touches every member of an organization personally. Introducing Adaptive MFA.

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Marketing Digital transformation Cloud Migration Authentication 71

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 20, 2021

In the 2020 Data Threat Report – Global Edition , more than a quarter (26%) of senior security executives from around the world with responsibility for their organizations’ IT and data security told Thales that their employers had experienced a data breach in the past year.

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Mobile Architecture Data breaches Authentication 71

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Disrupt LockBit Ransomware Variant Reward Offers for Information on LockBit Leaders and Designating Affiliates Darknet Drug Dealers Arrested After Packages of Meth-Laced Adderall Repeatedly Returned to Sender LockBit ransomware gang has over $110 million in unspent bitcoin Malware Anatsa Trojan Returns: Targeting Europe and Expanding Its Reach Migo (..)

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Webroot

MAY 6, 2024

As we navigate through 2024, the cyber threat landscape continues to evolve, bringing new challenges for both businesses and individual consumers. The latest OpenText Threat Report provides insight into these changes, offering vital insights that help us prepare and protect ourselves against emerging threats.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 20, 2017

As part of this, we’ll likely see a decline in consumers having to take an active role in authenticating transactions with more secure, and behind the scenes, technological methods taking its place. While this is in no way a new or ground-breaking revelation, a customer-centric business model will certainly be a key differentiator.

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Retail Marketing Mobile Technology 83

Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The State of Data Security in 2024 However, not only individuals must protect their digital assets; organizations do, too. A host of threats continue to put enterprise data at risk. It's crucial to recognize that data breaches have enormous impacts on individuals, businesses, and society.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

At the start of the year, Thales released the findings of its latest annual global Data Threat Report which found that, as businesses everywhere undergo a form of digital transformation, the risk of data breaches has reached an all-time high.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

It also introduces new concepts, including the requirement for notifying the regulator of any cross-border personal data transfers (both before and after the transfer). The new law goes further by introducing criminal sanctions for personal data breaches.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Any operational downtime or even worse data loss due to a data breach could significantly impact customer loyalty and their highly anticipated holiday season revenues. According to a recent study, the average cost of a retail data breach in 2024 is reported to be $3.48

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Retail Data breaches Digital transformation Risk 71

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Virtually every major financial institution, retailer, and scores of payment processors have been the victims of data breaches, incurring both financial and reputational damage. According to the 2022 Thales Data Threat Report – Financial Services Edition , 52% of U.S. million, second only to healthcare.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 10, 2023

Almost 50% of retail respondents mentioned that retail cybercrime increased over the last year, and one-third of respondents experienced a retail data breach in the previous 12 months. Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report showed that retailers encountered 629 incidents in 2021, 241 of which with confirmed data disclosure.

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Retail Cybersecurity Ransomware Authentication 71

Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The Data Security Challenge Thales recently released the 2024 Thales Data Threat Report – Financial Services Edition which highlights the latest data security challenges and threats to financial services organizations. Human error was the leading cause of cloud-based data breaches.

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Financial Services Cybersecurity CISO Backups 72

Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

As threat actors get savvier about targeting our access credentials, the industry is gradually moving away from passwords altogether and into a passwordless future. This means switching wholesale to other forms of authentication, which may leverage biometric data, PINs, patterns, and passkeys in place of passwords.

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Cybersecurity Passwords Password Management Phishing 75

Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Any operational downtime or even worse data loss due to a data breach could significantly impact customer loyalty and their highly anticipated holiday season revenues. According to a recent study, the average cost of a retail data breach in 2024 is reported to be $3.48

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Retail Data breaches Digital transformation Risk 64

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 5, 2018

These technologies allow organizations to better create and manage data, as well as store critical information more efficiently. According to the Thales eSecurity 2018 Global Data Threat Report, Healthcare Edition , 95% of U.S. respondents reported using these technologies with sensitive data.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Nation-state attackers have exploited high-severity vulnerabilities in legacy VPN platforms to breach networks. Ninety-five percent of cybersecurity breaches are due to human error (Symantec Internet Security Threat Report). Enable data driven device registration. Establish an IoT identity lifecycle.

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IoT VPN Architecture Risk 109

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 11, 2018

According to the 2018 Thales Data Threat Report , two in five global healthcare organisations (39%) experienced a data breach in the last year, and that’s using today’s relatively modest and well-understood web systems.

Technology 72

Technology Healthcare IoT Encryption 72

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

As threat actors get savvier about targeting our access credentials, the industry is gradually moving away from passwords altogether and into a passwordless future. This means switching wholesale to other forms of authentication, which may leverage biometric data, PINs, patterns, and passkeys in place of passwords.

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Cybersecurity Passwords Password Management Phishing 62

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

The historic amount of coverage that data breaches have produced in 2018 has exposed executives and consumers to the importance of security, like no year before. At the same time, enterprise organizations that spend more than 10% of their IT budget on security, 34% say that they have experienced a breach in the past year.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

According to the Thales Data Threat Report, Healthcare and Life Sciences Edition , in 2023, among healthcare and life sciences respondents, human error (76%) is the leading reported cause of cloud data breaches, well ahead of a lack of MFA, the second highest, at 11%.

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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. For years identity management has relied on three factors for authentication: What one knows (passwords). Big Data Analytics. What one has (tokens). And what one is (biometrics).

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 24, 2018

to discuss the findings of the 2018 Thales Data Threat Report, Federal Edition. Question: Can you provide an overview of the 2018 Thales Data Threat Report, Federal Edition, and elaborate why it’s needed today more than ever? There also appears to be some confusion over how to best protect critical data.

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Encryption Data breaches Government Threat Reports 48

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 26, 2023

According to the World Economic Forum 2023 Global Risks Report, cybercrime and cyber insecurity are among the top 10 short- and long-term global risks. The latest Verizon 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report highlights that due to digitization, SMBs and large companies increasingly use similar services and infrastructure.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

While compliance enforces behavior through rules and consequenceslike being forced to exercisetrue buy-in reflects authentic understanding and commitment. Phishing-resistant authentication: Widespread use of passkeys, biometrics, and passwordless solutions to bolster security. Let me unpack what I mean.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 9, 2024

One such advancement that's revolutionizing online security and user authentication is passkeys. By leveraging cryptographic techniques and biometric authentication, passkeys offer a more robust and user-friendly alternative to traditional passwords, addressing many vulnerabilities that have long plagued our online accounts.

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