Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

With organizations around the world now deploying ever-increasing amounts of encryption solutions in an effort to ward off cybercrime, businesses are facing a combination of challenges. Whether it’s varying protection levels, differing operational techniques and policies, or juggling multiple keys, managing more than one encryption system can quickly turn into a complex web that demands time, expertise and money to manage effectively.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Distributed Ledgers For Identity and Access Management Have Great Promise Blockchain technology already underpins the boom in cryptocurrencies, but is also being rigorously tested and developed for other applications, including identity and access management. Such projects could make personal data easier to secure and less vulnerable to data breaches.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

This story of leaked Australian government secrets is unlike any other I've heard: It begins at a second-hand shop in Canberra, where ex-government furniture is sold off cheaply. The deals can be even cheaper when the items in question are two heavy filing cabinets to which no-one can find the keys. They were purchased for small change and sat unopened for some months until the locks were attacked with a drill.

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WIRED Threat Level

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

We speak about the “Mueller probe” as a single entity, but it’s important to understand that there are no fewer than five separate investigations under the broad umbrella of the special counsel’s office.

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The Guardian Data Protection

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Non-nationals subject to an immigration procedure are to lose the right to access data held about them, in a discriminatory move that worries the European parliament In September, I warned in a Guardian opinion article that the Brexit process could have the effect of allowing the UK government to bring in more draconian and discriminatory immigration laws, harking back to the 70s and 80s.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

The 2018 Thales Data Threat Report (DTR) has great information on Big Data use and security. We surveyed more than 1,200 senior security executives from around the world, and virtually all (99%) report they plan to use Big Data this year. Top Big Data Security Concerns. But they rightly have concerns. As the report notes: The top Big Data security issue is that sensitive data can be anywhere – and therefore everywhere – a concern expressed by 34% of global and U.S. respondents.

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WIRED Threat Level

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Researcher Mordechai Guri has spent the last four years exploring practically every method of stealthily siphoning data off of a disconnected computer.

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The Guardian Data Protection

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

WHOIS, one of oldest tools on internet for verifying real identities, at risk of being killed due to tough new GDPR regulations Sweeping new European data protection regulations may have the accidental effect of protecting scammers and spammers by killing the WHOIS system used to link misdeeds online to real identities offline, security experts have warned.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Malicious Spreadsheets With Embedded Flash Trace to North Korean Attackers A hacking team dubbed "Group 123" with apparent ties to the government of North Korea has been exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in the Flash browser plug-in, likely to hack high-value targets. Adobe has released an emergency Flash update with security fixes. Or organizations could simply stop using Flash.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

This past month, CEOs, elected leaders and academics from around the globe gathered at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, to discuss the world’s most pressing problems including technological change, global trade, education, sustainability, and gender equality. As in previous years, digital transformation remained a key theme at the event as well as discussions around artificial intelligence (AI) and IoT technologies impacting the workforce.

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Bill Schmarzo - Dell EMC

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

I was recently asked to conduct a 2-hour workshop for the State of California Senior Legislators on the topic of “Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and Privacy.” Honored by the privilege of offering my perspective on these critical topics, I shared with my home-state legislators how significant opportunities await the state. I reviewed the once-in-a-generation opportunities awaiting the great State of California (“the State”), where decision makers could vastly improve their constituents’ qualit

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WIRED Threat Level

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Polisis, a machine-learning-trained tool, automatically produces readable charts of where your data ends up for any online service.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

CISO Says Characterizing Payoff as Bug Bounty Was Wrong Uber CISO John Flynn tells a U.S. Senate subcommittee that the company should have told the public sooner about its 2016 data breach. He says the company's attempt to position its $100,000 payoff to hackers as a bug bounty was not appropriate.

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TAB OnRecord

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

When Colorado approved the retail sale of marijuana in 2013, the City & County of Denver was hit with a massive influx of applications from hopeful retailers. The licensing department was soon swamped with a backlog of unprocessed applications. In a two-part blog post we show how they dealt with the backlog and redesigned their [.] Read More. The post City & County of Denver: How to redesign a document-intensive business process – Part 1 appeared first on TAB Records Management Blog | T

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Information Management Resources

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Architecting a security, privacy and governance solution can be fast and simple. This checklist will ensure your archiving solutions are in top notch shape before the General Data Protection Regulation is here.

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Dark Reading

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Many businesses are ill-equipped to deal with potential risks posed by billions of connected devices, exponential data growth, and an unprecedented number of cyber threats. Here's how to prepare.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Are More Healthcare Sector Entities at Risk? Do healthcare entities face a growing risk of being hit with cryptocurrency mining attacks, which have become more common in other sectors? A Tennessee hospital may be the first victim in the sector, and some security experts predict many more such incidents.

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Speaker: Anindo Banerjea, CTO at Civio & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

When developing a Gen AI application, one of the most significant challenges is improving accuracy. This can be especially difficult when working with a large data corpus, and as the complexity of the task increases. The number of use cases/corner cases that the system is expected to handle essentially explodes. 💥 Anindo Banerjea is here to showcase his significant experience building AI/ML SaaS applications as he walks us through the current problems his company, Civio, is solving.

eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Industry experts from Coalfire, IEEE and more discuss how AI is shaping the future of IT security.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

An integral part of your EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) project is producing appropriate documentation to demonstrate your compliance. As part of this, organisations will need to produce a data protection policy. To help you prepare for the fast-approaching compliance deadline (25 May 2018), we have outlined what the data protection policy is, what you should be looking to include and what tools can help your organisation produce this essential piece of documentation.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

I've been giving a bunch of thought to passwords lately. Here we have this absolute cornerstone of security - a paradigm that every single person with an online account understands - yet we see fundamentally different approaches to how services handle them. Some have strict complexity rules. Some have low max lengths. Some won't let you paste a password.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Chrome Browser Will Flag Sites Lacking Security Communication Protocol Google is prepping its Chrome browser to brand as "not secure" every site a user tries to visit that does not use HTTPS encryption by default. The move is meant to push more sites to use HTTPS to secure communications and help block eavesdropping and man-in-the-middle attacks.

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OpenText Information Management

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

It’s been one year now since we announced our acquisition of Documentum, InfoArchive, Captiva, and LEAP SaaS Platform and Applications. LEAP had truly found a home as it was the perfect fit into the OpenText™ Cloud Services strategy. Having been in development for almost 2 years, it came fully equipped with an extensive list of … The post LEAP makes perfect fit in OpenText™ cloud services strategy appeared first on OpenText Blogs.

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WIRED Threat Level

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

A new twist on the classic Nigerian Prince scheme has jumped from gaming communities to Twitter. And now it's spreading.

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The Schedule

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

This guest post is by Holly Dolan, MLS, Assistant Manager of Denton County Records Management in Denton, Texas. If you would link to download copies of these valentines for your own re-use, Holly has graciously made this PDF available. At some point in their career every records manager has felt the air go sour when they’ve walked into a room. What is it about records management that sets people on edge?

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Owners of CII Must Report Incidents or Face Penalties Singapore's new cybersecurity law passed earlier this week mandates that owners of critical information and infrastructure report cybersecurity incidents to the Cybersecurity Agency. Security experts discuss organizations' readiness to comply.

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Speaker: Aindra Misra, Senior Manager, Product Management (Data, ML, and Cloud Infrastructure) at BILL

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OpenText Information Management

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

We’re now quite well into 2018 but I thought it was still worth putting together a blog on the trends I see affecting manufacturing over the coming year. I’ve chosen two legislative changes and three technology-driven trends. Taken together, I think they add up to great opportunities for manufacturers but an increasingly challenging business environment … The post The top trends for manufacturing in 2018 appeared first on OpenText Blogs.

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WIRED Threat Level

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Infraud may not have been as famous as dark web markets like the Silk Road and Alphabay, but it far outlasted both.

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The Guardian Data Protection

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

The ease with which giant databases can be queried and cross-referenced makes privacy vanish on the internet Privacy is necessary for human society to function. The problem is not that the information exists but that it reaches the wrong people. Information on the internet could bring great benefits to society, and to individuals, when huge datasets can be refined to yield information otherwise unavailable.

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