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What will be your decisive moment to secure your cloud applications in a Zero Trust world?

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Secure and successful management of data access may still be an Achilles’ heel for many organizations, but if there’s a silver lining to cloud breaches, it’s that they highlight where changes need to be made. Investments in IT security are on the rise and policies are evolving for the better.

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The Original APT: Advanced Persistent Teenagers

Krebs on Security

.” LAPSUS$ seems to have conjured some worst-case scenarios in the minds of many security experts, who worry what will happen when more organized cybercriminal groups start adopting these techniques. “They were calling up consumer service and tech support personnel, instructing them to reset their passwords.

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SHARED INTEL Q&A: My thoughts and opinions about cyber threats — as discussed with OneRep

The Last Watchdog

OneRep provides a consumer service that scrubs your personal information from Google and dozens of privacy-breaching websites. Byron is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Last Watchdog on Privacy & Security. Here is Erin’s Q&A column, which originally went live on OneRep’s well-done blog.)

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NEW TECH: ‘Passwordless authentication’ takes us closer to eliminating passwords as the weak link

The Last Watchdog

Username and password logins emerged as the go-to way to control access to network servers, business applications and Internet-delivered consumer services. Passwords may have been very effective securing Roman roads. This was all done in an effort to take a very vulnerable system and make it more secure,” Vardi says.

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CNIL Releases Guidance on Teleworking

Hunton Privacy

According to the Guidance, employers must implement the following measures to secure their information systems: Ensuring that they have an IT charter or information security policy in place covering teleworking, or, at the very least, a set of minimum rules that must be complied with by each teleworking employee.

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Cloud models for reducing security risks

CGI

Cloud models for reducing security risks. Cloud computing has given rise to new and varied security risks, challenging organizations in every sector to understand the risks and develop a holistic IT security policy that takes into account the cloud dimension. Tue, 04/19/2016 - 01:17. Add new comment.

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California Bulks Up Security Breach Notification Requirements

Hunton Privacy

On August 31, 2011, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law amendments to that state’s security breach notification statute. California agencies using substitute notice will be required to notify the Office of Information Security within the California Technology Agency.