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USB Key Kingston Iron Key VP50: Private Data Vault

One of the biggest security holes for data transfers? Insufficiently shielded USB flash drives! The Californian storage giant Kingston now delivers the multi-hardened mini flash memory of the “private armored safe” category with multi-password option and anti-brute force strategy. The Kingston IronKey Vault Privacy 50 (VP50) features hardware-based XTS-AES 256-bit encryption and is FIPS-197 certified. …

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Analytics Make Supply Chain Security More Robust

Business, Data

Security analytics technology is becoming increasingly important to supply chain management. Analytics technology has become essential to many aspects of enterprise management. Some of the benefits of analytics even overlap with others. More companies than ever are using analytics to improve their security. They are also using data analytics tools to streamline many logistical processes …

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How to Defend Against Cybercrime Groups with Million-Dollar Budgets?

Security, Business, Computer, Data

The question from the headline is probably asked by every IT today. There are simple answers: “not at all”, “de-network / reduce dependency on IT” and “buy new tools”. Unfortunately, the same is true here as with many other complex issues: There is no quick easy solution (“silver bullet”). But there is a proven, three-step …

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AIOps and Machine Learning: The Secret Recipe for Observability

Business, Data, Network

Traditional monitoring aggregates and displays data. When problems occur, traditional monitoring generates alerts. And there can be a lot of them. Some alerts are essential, but others just distract from important information. Filtering out these unimportant alerts is therefore essential. Time for Observability! Complex IT infrastructures leverage microservice architectures, and it’s critical that tech professionals …

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Foreign State Power in Domestic Cyberspace

Security, Data

A series of cyberattacks from the onset of the pandemic is dragging on like chewing gum. The attacks just won’t stop. Foreign state power in domestic cyberspace is a threat of a special kind. Foreign state power in domestic cyberspace Rarely has a major outcry been as deeply justified as that surrounding the attacks against …

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What Is a Data Protection Impact Assessment?

Data, Security

What Is DSIA Data Protection Impact Assessment

The data protection impact assessment, or DSIA for short, is an important installation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). It is intended to ensure the protection of personal data in data-processing bodies through a risk analysis to be carried out in advance. The consequences of processing operations are to be examined and evaluated in …

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10 Steps to Protect Against Hacker Attacks

Data, Malware, Security

Headlines about devastating cyberattacks have not been uncommon lately – and they seem to be becoming more frequent: Both the number of security breaches and their severity continue to increase. Yet it turns out that many of the attacks could be avoided. This makes security breaches a particularly bitter pill for those organizations that fall …

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What is KMIP (Key Management Interoperability Protocol)?

Data, Business, Security

The Key Management Interoperability Protocol is a protocol standardized by OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards). KMIP enables the communication of applications and systems for the storage and management of keys, certificates, or other secret objects. What is KMIP (Key Management Interoperability Protocol)? The abbreviation KMIP stands for Key Management Interoperability Protocol …

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What Is Network Encryption?

Encryption, Data, Network

Network encryption operates on layer 2 or 3 of the OSI layer model. It ensures the confidentiality and integrity of transmitted data as well as the authenticity of communication partners and is transparent to higher-layer protocols or applications. What is network encryption? Network encryption encrypts data directly at the network layer. In the OSI layer …

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Tools for Data Protection Impact Assessment According to DSGVO

Data, Security

The number of construction sites in data protection is not decreasing, it seems. The data protection consequences of a hard Brexit are just one example. This makes it all the more important to set the right priorities in data protection. The best tool for this is the data protection impact assessment, for which there is …

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How Does a Captcha Work?

Security, Cloud, Data

Many IT security measures are not developed or deployed until you encounter a concrete problem. It was the same with Captcha. This security query was developed to put a stop to spam and the unwanted use of web services by automated bots and to clearly distinguish humans from machines. But as is so often the …

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What is Bring Your Own Identity (BYOI)?

Security, Business, Data

Bring Your Own Identity is the name for a concept in which the digital identity for the use of service is provided and managed by a separate instance. The user can log in to many different services using a single identity. Many social network operators offer their users the service of identity management for BYOI …

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What Is a Side Channel Attack?

Security, Business, Data

A side-channel attack does not directly attack algorithms or data. The attack method uses physical or logical side effects and tries to extract protected information or algorithms by observation and analysis. Electromagnetic emissions, energy consumption, the time required for certain functions, memory usage, and others are used. Side-channel attacks are costly and difficult to prevent. …

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What is Spoofing?

Data, Business, Security

The term spoofing covers various methods and technical procedures to disguise one’s own identity or to feign a false identity. Several types of spoofing exist, such as IP, e-mail, DNS, ARP, URL, or caller ID spoofing. Cybercriminals use spoofing to gain unauthorized access to sensitive data, perform unauthorized transactions, introduce malware, or cause other damage. …

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Something Is Happening on The Cookie Front

Data, Computer, Mobile

A new proposal for the e-Privacy Regulation (ePVO) shakes up the need for consent for cookies. But while cookie storage could get easier, browser vendors don’t want to support third-party cookies in the future. But it’s not really about cookies or no cookies, it’s about clear guidelines and informing those affected. Something is happening on …

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What is TEE(Trusted Execution Environment)?

Data, Mobile, Security

What is a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE)?

A Trusted Execution Environment creates an isolated environment, sealed off from other applications and data, for the protected execution of applications or the storage of data that requires protection. The environment can be implemented on the main processor, a dedicated processor, or a special chip. Common application areas are smartphones. For example, in some devices, …

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What Is Biometrics?

Security, Data

Biometrics refers to the science of measuring and analyzing biological characteristics. Today, biometric procedures are used to identify or verify persons. Biometric procedures are, for example, fingerprint or face recognition. What is biometrics? Biometrics goes back to the ancient Greek terms “bios” and “metron” and can be roughly translated as “measurement of human characteristics”. It …

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Backup with Synology NAS

Data, Business

Scheduling and managing backups and regular backups is an important but often time-consuming task. A Synology NAS brings all the features of various apps to make the backup run as smoothly as possible. The new HyperBackup connects all backup processes, from local media to various cloud services. Backups should be part of every user’s daily …

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Users Completely Screened

Data, Mobile

With Oxygen Forensic Detective, Oxygen Forensics delivers software that can be used to extract and analyze data from mobile devices, SIM cards, memory cards, drones, and IoT devices. With the solution, the manufacturer is primarily targeting investigators, intelligence agencies and companies. In the test lab, the forensics tool was able to show what it is …

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Data Protection Problems in The HR Department

Business, Data

Data processing in the employment context is one of the main areas of deficiency in corporate data protection. The supervisory authorities report numerous practical cases in which the typical mistakes made by companies become apparent. Employee data protection must be given even greater focus. The correct handling of applicant data is just one example of …

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