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The 7 Most Telling Data Breaches of 2024

Dec 31, 2024 By Lindsey Watts In Nightfall
While cyber criminals continue to devise ever more creative ways to get into systems, the outcomes of repeat like a broken record: stolen data and lost money. It happened in again and again this year, but our pick proves the stakes are only getting higher with time. We'll explain the logic behind the list, impacts felt, and key takeaways.
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Cisco Data Leak: The Facts on the Ground

Dec 25, 2024 By Adi Bleih In Cyberint
On October 14th, prior to the data leak on December 16th, a threat actor known as IntelBroker announced on BreachForums that he was offering a Cisco breach for sale. As is typical for his operations, he provided samples and credited another well-known collaborator, EnergyWeaponUser. The price for the breach was not specified and was to be negotiated privately, with payments accepted exclusively in XMR cryptocurrency.
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IP Leak Test Guide: How to Ensure Your Privacy Online for Free

Dec 25, 2024 By SecuritySenses In SecuritySenses
Your IP address is like a digital home address-it tells websites, services, and even hackers where to find you. But what happens if your IP address gets exposed, even when you think it's hidden behind a VPN? This is called an IP leak, and it can compromise your privacy without you even knowing. The good news? You can easily perform an IP leak test to ensure your online activities stay private. And the best part? It doesn't cost a dime. In this guide, we'll walk you through what an IP leak is, how to test for leaks, and how to secure your IP address-all using free tools.
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5 Essential Holiday Cybersecurity Tips for Enterprises

Dec 23, 2024 By Lookout In Lookout
While many businesses wind down during the holiday season, cyber criminals ramp up their efforts instead. E-commerce sites are obvious targets, but threat actors target cloud services providers, financial institutions, and social media networks just as often — if not more — during the holidays. Whatever your organization does, you’ll want to follow a few holiday cybersecurity tips to safeguard your sensitive data and protect your staff as the year comes to a close.
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protecto

Healthcare Data Masking: Tokenization, HIPAA, and More

Dec 22, 2024 By Amar Kanagaraj In Protecto
Healthcare data masking unlocks the incredible potential of healthcare data for analytics and AI applications. The insights from healthcare data can revolutionize the industry from improving patient care to streamlining operations. However, the use of such data is fraught with risk. In the United States, Protected Health Information (PHI) is regulated by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which sets stringent requirements to safeguard patient privacy.
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Feroot

Is Your Company's Website Compromising Customer Data?

Dec 21, 2024 By Feroot In Feroot
If you are a security, compliance, and privacy professional, it’s time to focus on an often-ignored issue—client-side security. While many organizations dedicate significant resources to protecting their servers, there’s a critical question to consider: are you also safeguarding what’s happening on your users’ browsers?
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Cybercriminals targeting the legal sector

Dec 19, 2024 By Cymon In CYJAX
Cybercrime targeting law firms has surged by 77% in the past year, raising significant concerns for the legal sector. The frequency, nature, and motivations of these attacks are evolving, putting law firms in a vulnerable position. Due to the sensitive nature of their data and high stakes, law firms are frequent targets for financially motivated cybercriminals, hacktivists, and even state-sponsored groups.
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netskope

Don't Choose Between DSPM and DLP: Here's Why You Need Both

Dec 18, 2024 By David Mundy In Netskope
As security leaders, you’re tasked with protecting the crown jewels of our organizations, your data, while balancing innovation, compliance, and ever-evolving threats. Yet, too often, data security strategies rely on isolated tools and reactive measures, leaving critical gaps.
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protegrity

Protect Your Data within your Generative AI workflow with Protegrity on AWS Bedrock

Dec 17, 2024 By Protegrity In Protegrity
Collaboratively authored by Anthony Cammarano, Mario Vargas, Muneeb Hasan, Alexandre Charlet, Andre Castro, Vic Levy, Ken Darker and Iwona Rajca Generative AI (GenAI) applications are revolutionizing how businesses interact with data, primarily through Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines, combining language models with vast enterprise knowledge bases. These pipelines allow organizations to query extensive internal datasets in real time.
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algosec

What Is Cloud Encryption? Your Key to Data Security

Dec 16, 2024 By Asher Benbenisty In AlgoSec
Imagine your sensitive business data falling into the wrong hands. A data breach can be devastating, leading to financial losses, legal headaches, and irreparable damage to your reputation. Cloud encryption is your key to protecting your valuable data and ensuring peace of mind in the cloud. In this article, we'll explore cloud encryption and how AlgoSec can help you implement it effectively.
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Riscosity and Microsoft Azure: A Powerful Partnership for Data Security

Dec 16, 2024 By Jackson Harrower In Riscosity
This collaboration is a significant step forward in making robust data security accessible to all organizations. By leveraging the Azure Marketplace, we're empowering Azure customers to easily discover, deploy, and integrate Riscosity into their existing infrastructure. This seamless integration allows for a streamlined experience and faster time to value.
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protecto

Data De-identification: Definition, Methods & Why it is Important

Dec 16, 2024 By Rahul Sharma In Protecto
Data is essential. Businesses, researchers, and healthcare providers rely on it. However, this data often contains sensitive personal information, creating privacy risks. Data de-identification helps mitigate these risks by removing or altering identifiers. This makes it harder to link data back to specific individuals. This process is vital for protecting sensitive information and allowing safe data use. Privacy is a growing concern. Regulations like HIPAA set strict rules.
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The Key Steps to Ensuring DORA Compliance

Dec 13, 2024 By Alasdair Anderson, VP of EMEA In Protegrity
As we approach 2025, financial institutions across the EU face the challenge of complying with the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), which is set to take effect on the 17th of January. DORA is focused on strengthening cybersecurity and operational resilience across financial ecosystems, with the consequences for non-compliance ranging from regulatory fines to reputational damage and an increased risk of cyberattacks.
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People Problem or Data Problem? Risks and Mitigation of Insider Threats

Dec 12, 2024 By Lindsey Watts In Nightfall
An insider is any person with authorized access to systems or data that gives them the ability to take potentially harmful actions. Insiders range from business partners or third party contractors to full- and part-time employees–essentially all valid users with access to resources that you'd rather keep out of the wrong hands. People are just people, but when they mishandle data, they fall into the category of being an insider threat–intentional or not.
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riscosity

Challenges with Data Security Posture Management (DSPM)

Dec 11, 2024 By Anirban Banerjee In Riscosity
While Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) is a powerful approach for discovering, monitoring, and managing sensitive data across complex systems, it is not without its challenges. These hurdles often stem from the complexity of modern data environments, evolving threats, and operational constraints. Below are the primary challenges associated with DSPM.
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Getting Started with Protegrity's API Playground

Dec 5, 2024 By Protegrity In Protegrity
For organizations handling sensitive data, finding a secure and efficient way to test data protection solutions is crucial. The Protegrity API Playground offers a straightforward way to test Protegrity’s data protection features. The Playground grants you 10,000 API requests after registration to use as you see fit: protecting names, addresses, credit card numbers – or any other data your organization considers secure.
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