Good news in the fight to prevent COVID-19 infections: Researchers report that a digital contact-tracing app rolled out in England and Wales that's designed to keep users' data private and secure is helping to blunt the spread of the pandemic. They urge continuing global uptake of such apps.
Organizations in the APAC region are not immune to the impact of the SolarWinds supply chain hack, so it's essential that they reassess their risk management practices and audit their suppliers, two security experts stress.
Shocking but true: 44 percent of East-West traffic is not encrypted. If you ever needed a reason to evaluate your own network, our new TLS research report is jammed with more numbers that will motivate you to do so. Researchers studied 275 billion data flows to reveal real-world metrics of SSL/TLS protocol usage, and...
Data security is on everyone's mind these days, and for good reason. The number of successful data breaches is growing thanks to the increased attack surfaces created by more complex IT environments, widespread adoption of cloud services and the increasingly sophisticated nature of cyber criminals.
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Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, California's attorney general on March 11 released a second modification of the proposed regulations to implement the California Consumer Protection Act. Attorney Sadia Mirza explains what's included in this "spring cleaning."
This webinar provides attendees with an overview of machine learning services and examples of outcomes from the AWS, Google and Microsoft Azure clouds. It will address challenges and opportunities in gleaning insights from large data sets. Presenters will also share what ClearDATA is doing to help organizations make...
Anti-virus giant Avast is shuttering Jumpshot, its data collecting side business that has been funneling detailed internet browsing activity from the company's security products and browser extensions to marketers, after a probe by PCMag and Motherboard found the company was failing to fully anonymize data.
Microsoft accidentally internet-exposed for three weeks 250 million customer support records stored in five misconfigured Elasticsearch databases. While the company rapidly locked them down after being alerted, it's an embarrassing gaff for the technology giant, which has pledged to do better.
Purpose-built backup appliances (PBBAs) have been foundational components to many organizations' backup/recovery infrastructure for more than a decade. The importance of PBBAs is illustrated in the numbers: According to IDC, in 2018, the data replication and protection (DR&P) market was approximately $8.9 billion,...
Automatic backup to the cloud is the technology most frequently included as part of availability strategies for mission critical workloads.
In this infographic, view the results of a survey of 2,200 IT Decision Makers over 18 countries, and learn how modernizing data protection means considering a continuum of...
Today's digital economy demands that organizations look at new ways to accelerate IT transformation, drive new revenue streams, and deliver better business outcomes by modernizing IT. The complexity of these environments requires sound data protection. Yet key findings from the Global Data Protection Index - a...
When leveraging AI and machine learning to drive banking innovations, it is essential to take a structured approach in implementing security-by-design for conducting proper risk assessment of the organizations and people involved, says Sameer Ratolikar, CISO, HDFC Bank
A security researcher found an unsecured database belonging to the Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China that contained 8.4 TB of email metadata. While it's not clear if anyone accessed the data, an attacker could have seen all email being sent or received by a specific person.
First American Mortgage Corp., the title insurance company that left hundreds of millions of personal documents exposed on the internet, is now facing a lawsuit and an inquiry by New York's financial regulator. The company is also offering free credit monitoring for anyone who used its title and settlement services...
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