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What Are the Most Important Steps to Protect Your Organization’s Data?

Smart Data Collective

After a marginal increase in 2015, another steep rise happened in 2016 through 2017 before the volume decreased in 2018 and rose in 2019, and dropped again in 2020. These numbers show that the volume of data breaches may not be continuously increasing, but they never go away. million (from 35.7 million in 2008). million (from 197.6

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How To Improve Incident Response Time for Data Breaches

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This breach was not discovered until 2018. Granting the malicious actors open access to more and more data as the Marriott hotel group was doing business. Had this data breach been detected earlier, countermeasures could have been put into place and protected many of their clients.

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Year in Review: Actian’s Top 5 Highlights of 2018

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2018 was a year of solid growth and progress for Actian, with many announcements and company highlights – including a major acquisition, a proprietary event, product innovations and much more! August 2018 ushered in a new version of Actian DataConnect , which was chock full of new features to better support DataConnect users.

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7 Advantages of Using Encryption Technology for Data Protection

Smart Data Collective

In one case occurring in June 2018, the University of Texas’s MD Anderson Cancer Center received a $4.3 However, according to a 2018 North American report published by Shred-It, the majority of business leaders believe data breach risks are higher when people work remotely.

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Cyber Fraud Statistics & Preventions to Prevent Data Breaches in 2021

Smart Data Collective

You also need to retain cybersecurity professionals with a background in big data. rose from 38 million in 2016 to over 50 million in 2018. While some may be ransomware others may steal your sensitive information to misuse them. This makes having a holistic understanding of the cyber security space essential.

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Critical Importance of a VPN in the Age of Data Breaches

Smart Data Collective

The growing number of data leaks that we see each day is a testament of this. In 2018, over 500 million personal records were exposed with data leaks. As our dependence on the Internet grows, it is becoming more important than ever to think about web security. The number of exposed records has increased at an alarming rate.

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150+ Top Global Cloud Thought Leaders and Next Generation Leaders of 2021

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He has hit 3000 blog posts for the AWS blog in 2018. Mark Lynd – Cloud Thought Leader and Keynote Speaker for Cybersecurity, AI & IoT, Head of Digital Business CISSP, ISSAP & ISSMP. He had held CEO positions in cybersecurity, AI Ops, and Legal Tech. Follow George Anadiotis on Twitter , LinkedIn , and Blog/Website.