Topic: sensitive data protection
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Scaling Cybersecurity & AI Startups for Resilience
Nazo Moosa highlights the need for purpose-driven investments in cybersecurity and AI startups, focusing on sustainable growth and adaptability to emerging threats. The convergence of cybersecurity and AI offers innovation opportunities, but resilience requires strong leadership, adaptabl...
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How to Build a Defense in Depth Strategy for Sensitive Data
A defense in depth strategy for sensitive data requires multiple interconnected layers,classification, tokenization, DLP policy tuning, and access controls,rather than relying on a single safeguard like disk encryption or DLP alone. These layers operate across the data life cycle, with each layer...
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OpenAI launches Lockdown Mode to block prompt injection attacks
OpenAI launched Lockdown Mode to protect users from prompt injection attacks by disabling live web browsing, image retrieval from the web, and access to deep research and agent mode features. The mode is not foolproof, as ChatGPT may still be vulnerable to prompt injections in cached web content ...
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Secure Your Google Workspace: Protect Data, Not Just Access
Modern digital workplaces face security challenges from interconnected tools, where attackers exploit legitimate access tokens rather than breaching traditional perimeters. Recent incidents, like the Drift Email compromise, show that third-party integrations can bypass robust security frameworks,...
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Concentric AI Enhances Azure Security for Regulated Data
Concentric AI has expanded its Semantic Intelligence platform with a Private Scan Manager for Microsoft Azure, allowing sensitive data security operations to run entirely within a customer's private cloud infrastructure, following a similar offering for AWS. This solution is critical for highly r...
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Google Warns Encryption at Risk From Quantum Computing
Google warns that rapid advances in quantum computing could break current public-key encryption protecting global data as soon as 2029, posing a severe cybersecurity threat. In response, Google is proactively integrating post-quantum cryptography into Android 17 to protect against future attacks ...
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Virtru Puts Data Protection at the Core of File Collaboration
Virtru Collaborate is a FedRAMP authorized file sharing solution that uses Trusted Data Format (TDF) to encrypt files, with protection that persists as data moves between users and across platforms. The solution resolves the traditional trade-off between security and usability by embedding persis...
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Pentagon Halts CMMC Phase II Mandates for Defense Contractors
The US Department of Defense suspended CMMC Phase II mandates on July 13, initiating a 60-day review to reduce bureaucratic burdens and costs that were forcing innovative companies out of the defense industrial base. Phase II would have required contractors handling sensitive data to undergo mand...
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Student Data Stolen in Victorian Education Dept Hack
An unauthorized party breached a Victorian Department of Education database, accessing student names, school details, and email addresses, but not more sensitive data like birth dates or home addresses. As a precaution, all student account passwords have been reset, with priority given to VCE stu...
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