Senetas Cybersecurity Blog

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Decoding the GDPR and global data protection regulations

Set to become law in May 2018, one of the major talking points of the legislation has been the hefty financial penalties proposed as a result of non-compliance. Organisations suffering a data breach can expect to be fined up to 4% of their annual turnover or €20 million, whichever is greater.

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Vulnerable network devices highlight the need for encryption

As if security-aware organisations needed another reminder that data network security is only as strong as its weakest link. PC World reveals yet another extraordinary story about vulnerable network devices – 840,681 of them to be exact. These stories are becoming commonplace and they raise serious concerns over some products' exposure to potentially damaging security breaches

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Transmission Flow Security

It may be surprising to know how much hackers and cyber-criminals learn from data networks’ traffic. This is done through a process referred to as ‘traffic flow analysis’. While once underestimated, traffic flow analysis is now gaining attention beyond the government and military sectors where it was commonly used to harm the ‘enemy’ among other purposes.

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High-assurance encryption for financial services

Last year was another big year for data breaches, and not in a good way. Gemalto’s breach level index is an online record of data breach incidents and reveals over 3.7 billion records have been lost since 2013.

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High-Assurance Encryption. If it’s not broken, don’t fix it!

There may be no more important data security topic today than law enforcement’s persistent calls to weaken ‘unbreakable’ encryption (the FBI’s term for high-assurance encryption) by forcing vendors to add backdoors to their security products.

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Network Traffic Flow analysis protection enhances encryption

Within a commercial setting, it is the analysis of large volumes of metadata, and the insights that can be gleaned from this analysis, that is likely to be of greater concern. Ducklin does a good job here of illustrating the risks and the types of insights that can be extracted from a detailed analysis.

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Network device vulnerabilities highlight the need for high-assurance encryption

The last few months have revealed a litany of shocking security weaknesses in network devices that are tantamount to ‘traps for the trusting’. The sheer number of devices impacted by encryption vulnerabilities suggests all data networks contain inherent weaknesses. Whilst some are, inevitably, more serious than others, they all exposure potentially sensitive data to unnecessary risk.

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