Kanav Gandhi, a product manager at Thales eSecurity, wrote in a blog post published Thursday about the key insights cybersecurity professionals can draw from the television series Game of Thrones and one of those is the need for long-term plans to protect data from threats.

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A new report by Thales says 98 percent of U.S. federal government respondents said they are using sensitive data with digitally transformative technologies such as cloud, internet of things, big data and blockchain. The 2019 Thales Data Threat Report – Federal Edition showed that less than a third of the respondents are adopting data encryption within those tech environments, the company said Wednesday.

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Nick Jovanovic, vice president of Thales’ eSecurity federal division, has said the federal government should implement best practices to protect sensitive data from identify theft and other cyber threats.

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A new report by Thales says 57 percent of U.S. federal government respondents claimed their agencies experienced a data breach over the past year. The figure in the “2018 Thales Data Threat Report, Federal Edition” shows a 23-percent increase from the 2017 report, which revealed that 34 percent of respondents encountered a breach, Thales said Thursday. […] More

Microsec, a public key infrastructure supplier in Hungary, has selected Thales to provide hardware security modules for integration with the former’s mobile identification technology. Thales said Thursday Microsec will adopt the nShield modules to help the Hungarian vendor secure its PassBy[ME] application and comply with the European Union’s regulation for electronic identification and trust services. NShield uses encryption, digital signing […] More

Thales has extended the capability of its encryption tool in an effort to support secure deployments of Red Hat’s OpenShift Container Platform. Thales said Thursday its Vormetric Transparent Encryption is designed to provide access control, encryption and data access logging support to help users comply with best practices and regulatory requirements for data protection. The encryption […] More

A Thales-sponsored report, based on a study conducted by the Ponemon Institute, shows that 54 percent of information technology security practitioners consider cloud-based services as the most important trend that influences the use of public key infrastructure. The 2017 PKI Global Trends Report also revealed that 40 percent of respondents believe the internet of things is […] More

Thales has opened a new innovation hub at the One Station Square business center in Cambridge, England, as part of the company’s digital technology growth and expansion efforts. The company said Friday its new facility offers a workspace for engineers, research, development and innovation professionals to collaborate with customers, partners and suppliers. “The move to One […] More

Thales has updated its data security management platform with new encryption, tokenization and key management features. The company said Wednesday the latest version of its Vormetric Data Security Manager provides support for the Vormetric Transparent Encryption Live Data Transformation tool, which is designed to lessen downtime during efforts to re-key and transform encrypted data. Thales also introduced the […] More

Wayne Lewandowski, vice president of federal business at Thales e-Security, has said he believes the U.S. government should shift cybersecurity spending from endpoint or network security to enterprise-wide protection of possible targets such as data. Lewandowski told Federal News Radio in an interview that aired Monday the 2017 Thales Data Threat Report shows cyber budgets increased by 61 […] More

Wayne Lewandowski, vice president of federal business at Thales e-Security, has said the level of spending increase in cybersecurity is lower than any other industry due to rising incidents of data breaches and lack of federal budget, Defense Systems reported Friday. Lewandowski said an independent study on cyber attacks found that data breaches affecting U.S. […] More

Thales released in conjunction with analyst firm 451 Research its second annual data security research brief 2017 Thales Data Threat Report, Federal Edition. The report indicated that ninety six percent of federal workers consider themselves “very” or “extremely” vulnerable to data breaches. This number is higher than any other sector polled by the report. Despite […] More