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Plus 350 percent ransomware: Consumer Identity Breach Report 2022 
B2B Cyber ​​Security ShortNews

ForgeRock, a global leader in digital identity, announces the results of its 2022 Consumer Identity Breach Report: Cybercriminals are finding new attack vectors across industries and borders. In addition to data breaches in Germany, ForgeRock's Consumer Identity Breach Report analyzes and describes attacks in other regions, including the US, UK, Australia and Singapore. Increase in data protection violations in Germany The IT security situation in Germany was tense overall last year. 2021 was marked by attacks on critical and public infrastructures, as well as authorities and supply chains. The…

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Good security and data protection functions drive 5G networks
Good security and data protection functions drive 5G networks

A new study by Trend Micro, one of the world's leading providers of cyber security solutions, shows that improved security and data protection functions are the main motive for the expansion of private 5G networks. The disclosure of data transmitted over the wireless network is considered the greatest security concern. More and more operators of networked production plants, hospitals or other "smart" infrastructures are looking for alternatives to public 5G networks and hope for better coverage and control, low latency times and a higher level of security through private 5G networks. However, such environments have a number of security requirements that traditional…

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Can IT forensics protect democracy?

A democracy offers many rights and freedoms to the people who live in it. Guaranteeing and protecting this is the task of the state. Exterro explains how IT forensics can help with digital forensic examinations of data carriers, IT systems and communication links. Smartphones, computers, instant messengers and online services have changed the work of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, police authorities and other federal and state bodies. In order to protect the free-democratic basic order and to ensure the peaceful coexistence of people, they increasingly need solutions for IT forensics. Exterro, provider of legal GRC software that enables e-discovery, digital forensics, data protection and cybersecurity compliance...

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Political agreement on EU-US data protection seems worthless
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Data security expert Detlef Schmuck from TeamDrive: “Political agreement on EU-US data protection is worthless. It is hard to imagine that the USA will submit to the data protection dictates of the EU.” As early as June 2020, the ECJ declared the transatlantic data protection agreement Privacy Shield invalid. "The so-called political agreement on data protection between the European Union and the USA is currently not worth a damn," says data security expert Detlef Schmuck. The President of the EU Commission Ursula von der Leyen and US President Joe Biden recently surprised with such an announcement. "The decision of the European...

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Legal guidelines for IT managers and management
Trend Micro News

IT Compliance: Trend Micro publishes a new edition of its legal guide. Already in its seventh edition, this supports IT managers and management with legal information. Trend Micro presents the new edition of its legal guide. This supports companies with legal issues that need to be considered in the context of IT security. Not least due to the passing of the IT Security Act 2.0, the requirements for organizations in Germany have changed. What IT managers should consider, what challenges there are with critical infrastructures (KRITIS) and how the cloud remains secure in terms of IT compliance are core topics of the seventh...

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Data protection: New digital obligations for companies

Since the beginning of 2022, companies have had to request and submit numerous documents digitally. This poses new challenges for operational data protection, since the GDPR must also be observed. Since this year, companies have had to request numerous documents from their employees as digital documents, for which paper form was previously sufficient. The Hamburg-based data service provider TeamDrive points out that this is all personal information that must be stored in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). On the one hand, this includes employee documents such as membership certificates, notifications or other notifications from the health insurance company or...

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Privacy advocates will have a hard time in 2022
Privacy advocates will have a hard time in 2022

The widespread use of Microsoft in German companies poses a challenge for data protection officers. According to Detlef Schmuck: "Data protection is on fire in many German companies." Especially since the EU-US Privacy Shield was declared invalid two years ago. "The role of data protection officers in companies will become more difficult in the new year," says data security expert Detlef Schmuck, managing director of the German data service TeamDrive GmbH. Above all, the widespread use of software from the US provider Microsoft in the German economy is an increasing problem because it poses the risk that personal…

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Data protection: only 45 percent of Germans trust authorities and institutions
G Data News

Trust in the authorities when it comes to cyber security issues depends on the competence of the respondents. Basically, Germans have little trust in German authorities and institutions - only 45 percent said they trust them when it comes to data protection. This is shown by the current survey "Cyber ​​Security in Figures" by G DATA in cooperation with Statista and brand eins. Another result of the study: The greater the competence in the area of ​​IT security, the greater the trust. Only 15 percent have “very great” trust in data protection German authorities and institutions enjoy central…

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Webinar 16.11.21/XNUMX/XNUMX: Achieve uniform data protection faster
B2B Cyber ​​Security ShortNews

Comprehensive data and threat protection for modern workplaces. That is the topic of the free McAfee Live webinar with experts on 16.11.21/14/00 from XNUMX:XNUMX p.m. Companies are implementing more and more cloud-based services to give their employees more flexibility and easy access to important applications. The protection of business-critical data is therefore right at the top of the agenda for managers at all levels. If the overview of cloud services is missing Local data protection solutions usually do not provide an overview of data in cloud services and cannot control collaboration or sharing in the cloud. With a separate data protection solution for the cloud environment ...

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Data protection in the cloud: data masking from PII
Data protection in the cloud: data masking from PII

Data protection in the cloud: with the data masking of PII in file storage such as S3, Azure BLOB and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The personal data contained therein is found first and masked via an API call. The popularity of cloud storage: As more and more data processing moves to the cloud, so does storage. This is only logical, because cloud systems need to be close to the data in order to be efficient, just as the data on the local computers must be stored on or nearby for faster processing ...

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