new Consider the example of a financial service organization. Banks often deal with sensitive data, such as Social Security and credit card numbers, that can't be exposed to the Internet. In these cases, agentless security can be applied to safeguard sensitive data while also helping security teams understand the context and linked risks. At the same time, the organization can also leverage agent-based security to better detect and respond to ongoing and future attacks with real-time alerts about brute force attacks or data filtrations, such as a malware campaign. An organization's DevOps security team can further shift security left and integrate malware-scanning features into the DevOps stages to achieve code-to-cloud protection. — darkreading.com, 20h ago

new Privacy is a concern for all online users, and ssstik.io takes this seriously. The platform prioritizes user privacy and data protection, providing a secure environment for downloading TikTok videos. Knowing that my personal information is safe adds an extra layer of confidence when using ssstik.io. — TechBii, 1d ago

new AI and regulated industries: “One of the surprises to me over the past 12 months are the regulated industries. These are industries that potentially don’t have the best reputation for being in the vanguard of technology: insurance, financial services, health care, life sciences, all these sorts of things. But in an ironic twist, all of the regulations that they’ve been working through over the past 20-30 years have been around data privacy, and data governance, and data standards, and structured data quality. They’re all the things you need to have in place to successfully apply your own data to generative AI. … For a very small incremental investment, they can start applying that data with generative AI really, really quickly; really, really easily.”... — GeekWire, 1d ago

new Pielke also addressed UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ claim that the number of weather, climate and water-related disasters has increased by a factor of five over the past 50 years. He noted that Guterres used data from the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) to make this claim. Pielke referred to notes in CRED reports that have advised for decades “Don’t look at our data and use it to say anything about the weather” and advises their data shows the evolution of registration of natural disaster events over time, which has increased with better means of communication. — Science Matters, 2d ago

new Fast forward to today and almost every car brand – from Ford to Volkswagen and Toyota has come under the lens of cyber-threats. As reviewed in ‘Privacy Nightmare on Wheels’ by Mozilla Foundation, many cars failed the privacy test. Mozilla’s latest edition of ‘Privacy Not Included’ revealed how 25 major car brands collect and share deeply personal data—that covers things as shocking as sexual activity, immigration status, facial expressions, weight and genetic and health information. There is BMW, Ford, Toyota, Tesla, Kia, and Subaru in the list of companies that can collect such deeply personal data. It is being done through sensors, microphones, cameras, car apps and the phones and devices drivers that connect to their cars along with vehicle telematics. While brands can share or sell this data to third parties, there is also a not-so-hard-to-guess possibility—hackers sneaking into this data without much trouble or friction. — DATAQUEST, 2d ago

new Smarter Data Governance: Here, the focus is to reduce the data footprint further by taking some action. We must try and store the data that is a ‘must-have’ and avoid redundant and secondary data that can easily be regenerated from originally sourced data. Faster computing today and in-memory processing enables enterprises to generate reports or aggregated data quickly. These reports may not need to be stored for long periods. Efforts must be made to reduce the data copies. Retention policies must be revisited as per the latest compliance to explore the possibility of data retention periods. Regular dark data and files assessment can help reduce the data footprint by dropping the data that is either redundant or not contributing to the business. — DATAQUEST, 2d ago

new When paying for a purchase in an online store, you enter your bank card number, expiration date, and verification code on the payment page, thereby transferring confidential data to a third party. Tokenization technology protects payment information when performing such a transaction, be it an online payment with a bank card or an Apple Pay & Google Pay e-wallet payment. You will learn about what a token and tokenization of bank cards are, and what the advantages of the technology are for business and the payer in this article. When working with online payments (in dollars, euros, or other currencies), you can use the reliable Rates service to track currency exchange rates in Ukraine. — Archyde, 2d ago

new ...‘For many, Black Friday and Cyber Monday are a great way to save serious money on a variety of purchases, so each year, these days are marked by unprecedented excitement and interest in online and offline shopping. As our research shows, 90 percent of users buy things spontaneously during big sales events and may not pay much attention to safety, trying to snatch the best offer. Our solutions for safe online shopping – like Kaspersky Premium – can be a reliable assistant in online payments security, which will protect not only your personal data, but also financial information, and will also warn you so you don’t end up on a phishing site.’ Comments Marina Titova, Vice-President, Consumer Product Marketing at Kaspersky. — CXOToday.com, 2d ago

new Bondar: Achieving regulatory compliance for organisations is table stakes, a must-have, a non-negotiable. However, the regulatory landscape of today has become much more dynamic and rapidly evolving, impacting what companies do, how they do it and where they do it. This evolution has required a higher level of agility, preparedness and a more proactive stance to be taken by organisations. In fact, one could argue that the most successful organisations have become adept at looking around the corner and taking proactive measures well in advance of regulatory changes and pressures weighing on them or requiring them to respond. Almost by definition, organisational strategies are directly impacted by adherence to regulatory requirements, and this of course touches upon the CTrO. While the examples are plentiful, a well-known one is the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the requirements for handling personal data that companies must adhere to. This set of regulations drove companies to transform their systems and processes, requiring significant time and resources to complete successfully. — Financier Worldwide, 2d ago

new The Indian model of digital public infrastructure (DPI) provides agency to states to pursue the best of private innovation and public accountability. Unlike the private technology platforms, the Indian DPI utilities build using open source architecture in the critical domains of digital identity, payments, banking, and health to ensure that personal data is stored under an established authority. — RT International, 2d ago

new The CIA Trinity, a well-known information security framework, consists of data confidentiality, integrity protection, and high availability. Starting with each attribute, the research team focuses on executing reliable multiparty apps on untrusted infrastructure. It is the responsibility of organizations to protect personal data privacy. This duty is becoming increasingly regulated by law, and the consequences of not carrying it out can be severe in the case of GDPR, up to 4% of turnover, for example. Companies may want to keep data private even if it is not personal to safeguard intellectual property, gain a competitive edge, or keep systems secure, such as when guarding secrets. — MarkTechPost, 2d ago

new Besides a Terminator-style robot apocalypse, though, there are more immediate risks to businesses, such as tendency for LLMs to hallucinate and for them to leak personal data. The LLMs underlying ChatGPT have essentially been trained on the entire Internet, which is fully of information that’s both true and factually false. Because they work in a probabilistic manner, you’re not guaranteed to get the same answer every time. — Datanami, 2d ago

new ...“In coming years, the citizen will use the Internet to build a relationship with government that is personal, custom-built for each user with features that are accessible. Digital government will be easy to use, consistent in its appearance and functionality, offer a complete selection of services that are unified across agencies, and available around the clock. Citizens will be aware of their rights to privacy and able to control governmental use of their personal information.”Current NASCIO President and Tennessee CIO Stephanie Dedmon set out to assess progress against the goals outlined in that paper, publishing a companion report this year. It points to a catalog of citizen-facing digital accomplishments recognized by NASCIO in the intervening years, including Tennessee’s MyTN App, which offers users more than 60 services from many different departments accessible with single sign-on. The updated report also includes evidence of how the personalized, user-focused, cyber- and privacy-aware aspirations have matured in the real world, creating new challenges along the way. The larger goals of effective technology that is focused on the user, however, remain largely the same.A recent report from KPMG, Tomorrow’s Government Today, surveyed residents and government leaders at the state and federal levels, acknowledging some of the challenges ahead for CIOs. Government executives view deploying new technology as a challenge — 72 percent say it will be “moderately difficult” while almost 25 percent say it will be “very difficult.”... — GovTech, 2d ago