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Are Data Breaches the New Reality for Retail?

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

As digital transformation takes hold, the retail industry is under siege from cyber criminals and nation states attempting to steal consumers’ personal information, credit card data and banking information. Lines are now blurred between physical and digital experiences. retailers experiencing a breach in the last year.

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Federal cybersecurity: breaking down the barriers to adoption

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

However, modernization and transformative technologies are creating new vulnerabilities resulting in data breaches. Our annual Thales Data Threat Report-Federal Edition , released today, found that 98% of federal agencies are storing sensitive data within a digitally transformative environment.

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SHARED INTEL: Report details how cyber criminals leverage HTTPS TLS to hide malware

The Last Watchdog

From January through March 2021, TLS concealed 45 percent of the malware Sophos analysts observed circulating on the Internet; that’s double the rate – 23 percent – seen in early 2020, Dan Schiappa, Sophos’ chief product officer, told me in a briefing. How TLS works is that there is an encryption point and a decryption point.

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

The Last Watchdog

APIs are the snippets of code that interconnect the underlying components of all the digital services we can’t seem to live without. Indeed, APIs have opened new horizons of cloud services, mobile computing and IoT infrastructure, with much more to come. A startling 95% of API attacks happen on authenticated endpoints.

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Maintaining Cybersecurity During Rapid Digital Transformation

Security Boulevard

In the business and technology world, perhaps its main effect has been to press the accelerator on digital transformation in organizations across the globe. Bringing automation, Artificial Intelligence (AI), machine learning, and the Internet of Things (IoT) to the workplace as part of digital transformation has many benefits.

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Healthcare – Patient or Perpetrator? – The Cybercriminals Within

Security Affairs

What makes such attacks so perilous is their clandestine nature; Rogue Devices can inject malware, cause data breaches, and more, all while operating covertly. The industry is undergoing a digital transformation and is becoming increasingly reliant on technology and, more importantly, Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) devices.

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NEW TECH: Brinqa takes a ‘graph database’ approach to vulnerability management, app security

The Last Watchdog

Imposing just the right touch of policies and procedures towards mitigating cyber risks is a core challenge facing any company caught up in digital transformation. Related: Data breaches fuel fledgling cyber insurance market. Digital transformation is all about high-velocity innovation and on-the-fly change.