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

MAY 1, 2019

These vulnerabilities can span from limited use of data encryption to the abuse of privileged user policies. However, modernization and transformative technologies are creating new vulnerabilities resulting in data breaches. Data Breaches aren’t Slowing Down. The problem? Regulations Stoke the Flames.

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Digital transformation Cybersecurity Data breaches Encryption 105

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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Digital transformation Data breaches Encryption Cloud Migration 130

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. Big Data and EMV 3DS.

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Retail Banking Big data Computers and Electronics 143

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. Not only are breaches at record highs – with 65% of U.S. Two other key drivers are digital transformation and poor investments in IT security tools needed to protect data.

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Financial Services Risk Digital transformation Data breaches 75

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

According to the 2020 Thales Data Threat Report-Global Edition , 30% of the respondents in the financial services sector are either aggressively disrupting their market or are embedding digital capabilities that enable greater enterprise agility. Weak security practices lead to data breaches. Data security.

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Financial Services Mobile Digital transformation Encryption 62

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

A few weeks ago, we issued the Global Edition of our 2019 Thales Data Threat Report, now in its seventh year. This year much of the emphasis within the results was on how digital transformation can put organizations’ sensitive data at risk. Let’s talk about breach rates first. The data bears this out.

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Digital transformation Data breaches Threat Reports Marketing 70

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 18, 2019

As organizations move more of their sensitive data to cloud platforms for the efficiency, flexibility and scalability that it promises, security and control continue to be a significant obstacle to this adoption.

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Encryption Big data Data breaches Threat Reports 127

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 3, 2019

With more and more organizations embracing digital transformation and accelerating their pace to digitize every piece of information, they become increasingly vulnerable to sophisticated cyber-attacks and data breaches. To Sum It Up.

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Digital transformation Encryption Data breaches Big data 104

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 11, 2018

As I was starting to write this blog, yet another retail program data breach occurred, for Marriott’s Starwood loyalty program. 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. This had me asking a simple question – Why?

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Retail Data breaches Big data Financial Services 66

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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Healthcare Digital transformation Unstructured Data Encryption 87

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 20, 2017

We’re now seeing big data play an increasing role in how retail sales and payments are being tailored to individual consumer’s preferences, and providers are adopting and integrating smarter, more efficient ways of completing the path-to-purchase. The post Securing the future of payments – what does 2018 have in store?

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Retail Marketing Mobile Digital transformation 83

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 6, 2018

Gartner defines digital risk management as “the integrated management of risks associated with digital business components, such as cloud, mobile, social, big data, third-party technology providers, OT and the IoT.” Some smaller companies have even gone out of business as the result of a data breach.

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Risk Digital transformation IoT Identity Theft 48

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 20, 2018

The urgency around data security is increasing. Over the years, the federal government has developed a wide range of cyber policies, programs and technologies, yet data breaches are occurring with increasing frequency. And the data environment only continues to grow more complex.

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Government Data breaches Big data Technology 54

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 6, 2018

For most enterprise IT security professionals, there are some common reasons that we need to protect a given data set. Minimizing the chance of a data breach of PII. Protecting sensitive financial data, intellectual property or secrets. Implementing best practices. Or complying with a customer or supplier requirement.

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Encryption Media Risk Data breaches 54

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 27, 2022

From smart cities and digital IDs to open government and better governance, the Cloud, Big Data, IoT and Artificial Intelligence have enabled a wide range of digital government initiatives. Big transformation of big government. Data Security. Government. Cloud Security. More About This Author >.

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Government Risk Artificial Intelligence Big data 71

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 23, 2023

However, simple actions like adopting multi-factor authentication (MFA) or encrypting sensitive data everywhere should be exercised throughout the year and not just during that month. The rising reliance on cloud platforms creates an expanded attack surface for threat actors and adversarial nation-states to exploit.

Energy and Utilities 77

Energy and Utilities Cybersecurity Ransomware Technology 77

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Findings from the 2018 Federal Edition of the Data Threat Report. Today, we released the results of the Federal Edition of our 2018 Data Threat Report, which reinforces the need for federal agencies to update IT legacy systems and increase security for storing sensitive data. The numbers don’t lie.

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Data breaches Threat Reports Encryption Mobile 86