Category Archives: Data Protection

Cost of a data breach: The healthcare industry

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Cyberattacks grow every year in sophistication and frequency, and the cost of data breaches continues to rise with them. A new report by IBM and the Ponemon Institute, the 2024 Cost of Data Breach Study, details the financial impacts of attacks across multiple industries. The global average cost of a data breach reached an all-time […]

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Scaling data security solutions: What you need to know

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In this Help Net Security interview, Bruno Kurtic, President and CEO at Bedrock Security, discusses the role of data visibility in enhancing cybersecurity. He explains that effective data visibility involves discovering, classifying, and contextualizin… Continue reading Scaling data security solutions: What you need to know→

Surging data breach disruption drives costs to record highs

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Security teams are getting better at detecting and responding to breach incursions, but attackers are inflicting greater pain on organizations’ bottom lines. IBM’s recent Cost of a Data Breach Report 2024 found the global average breach hit a record $4.88 million. That’s a 10% increase from 2023 and the largest spike since the pandemic. While […]

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Data Wallets Using the Solid Protocol

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I am the Chief of Security Architecture at Inrupt, Inc., the company that is commercializing Tim Berners-Lee’s Solid open W3C standard for distributed data ownership. This week, we announced a digital wallet based on the Solid architecture.

Details are here, but basically a digital wallet is a repository for personal data and documents. Right now, there are hundreds of different wallets, but no standard. We think designing a wallet around Solid makes sense for lots of reasons. A wallet is more than a data store—data in wallets is for using and sharing. That requires interoperability, which is what you get from an open standard. It also requires fine-grained permissions and robust security, and that’s what the Solid protocols provide…

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Cloud security threats CISOs need to know about

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In this Help Net Security interview, Ava Chawla, Head of Cloud Security at AlgoSec, discusses the most significant cloud security threats CISOs must be aware of in 2024. These threats include data breaches, misconfiguration, insider threats, advanced p… Continue reading Cloud security threats CISOs need to know about→

Confidential AI: Enabling secure processing of sensitive data

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In this Help Net Security interview, Anand Pashupathy, VP & GM, Security Software & Services Division at Intel, explains how Intel’s approach to confidential computing, particularly at the silicon level, enhances data protection for AI applic… Continue reading Confidential AI: Enabling secure processing of sensitive data→

Managing cyberattack fallout: Financial and operational damage

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In this Help Net Security, Ashley Harrington, Director of Cybersecurity at Aspida, discusses the impact of cyberattack on business operations and financial health. Beyond immediate disruptions and financial burdens, cyber incident can severely damage a… Continue reading Managing cyberattack fallout: Financial and operational damage→

VMware Patches Critical SQL-Injection Flaw in Aria Automation

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VMware warns that authenticated malicious users could enter specially crafted SQL queries and perform unauthorized read/write operations in the database.
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Brazil Data Regulator Bans Meta From Mining Data to Train AI Models

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Brazil’s national data protection authority has determined that Meta cannot use data originating in the country to train its artificial intelligence.
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