Traditional security controls and processes have a strong focus on defending infrastructure rather than data. Those that do focus on data typically look at defending unstructured data from outsiders, ...

Database security has become one of the most pressing challenges for businesses today. The complexity of keeping data private and secure grows daily. The data in these databases often contain personal ...

Over 158 million personal data records have been exposed since February 2005. There is no question that databases are under attack. No longer satisfied with defacing Web sites or committing other ...

Database security is crucial to protect the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of data. It builds customer trust, helps comply with regulations, and reduces the risks associated with ...

Ernst & Young (EY), one of the world’s biggest accounting companies, kept a complete database backup on the public internet, ...

As proposed by business consultant and author Geoffrey Moore, "Without big data, you are blind and deaf in the middle of a freeway." Data is not only an asset these days in high-stakes business. It is ...

A database used to track NYPD officer profiles contained security flaws that would have allowed a skilled-enough hacker to add, remove or modify data entries and insert potentially malicious files ...

A top Social Security Administration official turned whistleblower says members of the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) uploaded hundreds of millions of Social ...

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