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The funding was led by a mix of institutional and private sources in the cybersecurity, information technology and financial-services industries.

The pandemic is creating that market opportunity, given all of the security concerns raised by consumers accessing banking and other sensitive data over the internet, Sikora said.

Whether the development project is being outsourced or completely in-house, the misuse of sensitive private data is overwhelmingly common and security requirements are often waived over the needs of the business.

The blind spot for many organizations has to do with their applications and databases. Now you are saying, “Wait just a minute—we test all of our applications and we encrypt all PII.

Jon speaks to James Beecham, Founder & CTO at data security specialist vendor ALTR. We find out what we can learn from taking the full-stack engineer’s perspective on enterprise DevOps.

After working in the cybersecurity industry for the last 15 years, what I find most striking is that, despite all the money spent on cyberdefense, the number of data breaches every year continues to increase

There is a lot of noise in the security space today but most of the technology is focused on reacting to threats after the fact. There are too many examples where customer proprietary data has been exfiltrated in a breach. DB technology, security, and encryption have not changed in over 30 years. The attackers take advantage of this every day.

The problem is that IT, security, and compliance are already behind. As the “Defenders” of the business, they must now apply multiple other third-party products to that application in order to to gain fine-grained control over who accesses it and what data they can access.

Part 2/3 of understanding the top threats to data and how to neutralize risk and privacy exposures

Uncover the top five threats to the data held by banks and financial institutions, and get a fresh perspective on how the industry can make a fundamental shift away from failed perimeter protection

As data breaches continue to threaten brands, reputations and bottom lines, PCI compliance is an indicator that enterprise data security leveraging distributed ledger architecture is no longer just a concept, but is now in the hands of business.