In November 2017, it was found out that Uber had been breached and the records of 57 million people were stolen, says Encryptech.
Timeline
2018
March
- 1.
February
- 27. Encryption prevents payroll data from being stolen or copied, and is protected from insider threats as well as malware and ransomware, says Encryptech.
- 16. All sensitive data should be encrypted, and this should be done as a shared service to the various divisions and departments within the organisation, says Craig Moir, Managing Director of Encryptech.
- 14. In the 2007 case of the Credit Suisse bank data leak, dynamic data masking could have prevented the data theft, and the whole debacle could have been avoided, says Craig Moir, MD of Encryptech.
- 5. So if you need to encrypt your backups due to sensitive data, but the source database is left unencrypted, this is pure folly, says Craig Moir of Encryptech.
January
- 24. The goal of data masking is to ensure no sensitive information is available outside of an authorised and secured production environment, says Encryptech.