Similarly, any mobile application used to handle sensitive corporate data needs to be thoroughly tested first.
Bunyan is alleged to have accessed highly sensitive police data to perform background checks on women and their former partners after so-called "welfare" visits to victims of crime.
Meanwhile, American troops will probably want to think twice before revealing sensitive data to EA or any other game publisher in the future.
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It would still oblige the U.S. to transfer sensitive data and technology to potentially hostile nations.
The Energy and Natural Resources Committee should want to ascertain whether any American company is going to be willing to explore the ocean floors' resources if, as the price of doing so, they have to give sensitive data and technology to international competitors.
Despite concerns about inappropriate access to sensitive client data, many market participants are loathe to abandon Bloomberg terminals of which there are 315, 000 installed because of their widespread use especially in specialized markets such as Bloomberg's specialty, bonds.
Organizations have to grant employees and contractors access to sensitive applications and data in order to perform their job functions, but these insiders represent a very real security threat to the organization.
Failure to properly log off, unwittingly emailing a confidential document, using a thumb drive to bring work home, peer-to-peer file sharing, and other routine tasks that inadvertently create risks of exposing sensitive data to theft or misappropriation are not usually the results of malice.
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By default, S3 accounts are set to private, which means these stores of potentially sensitive data had to be flipped to public manually -- most likely by accident.
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Only a handful of Chinese employees at Komatsu's 100%-owned Shanghai affiliate have access to sensitive China data.
Handing off sensitive corporate data to unknown PCs over the public Internet poses serious technical and security issues.
Businesses will also have to think about assigning rights to sensitive company data.
It is within these that gaps of trust among different systems that could allow bad actors access to sensitive data without proper authentication.
The court was told he treated the criminal intelligence system "as a dating agency" by accessing highly sensitive police data to perform background checks on women and their former partners after visits to victims of crime.
Mr. McWhorter said that unlike hacking attacks that seek credit card numbers and other personal information that can be easily sold, the Chinese attacks it followed often ignored sensitive financial data to instead focus on stealing intellectual property.
GuardianEdge, the leader in endpoint data protection for the enterprise, offers award-winning solutions to protect sensitive data on end-user devices including laptops, desktops, portable storage devices and smartphones.
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By enabling a security architecture centered on data control, IT solves longstanding security problems through empowering the environment to protect sensitive data regardless of access method, device, network, ownership or location.
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The real question was not how the breach occurred, but rather why a relatively low-ranking individual had access to so much sensitive data, and why there were inadequate safeguards in place to monitor its access.
Small businesses can also minimize risk by restricting employee access to sensitive company or customer data and by keeping software and operating systems current to defend against the latest malware and viruses.
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"Gemalto has been an early mover in developing its software and servicing capabilities to remotely manage sensitive data for different security implementations on connected devices, and we are excited to be part of this new venture that will pave the way for accelerating the adoption of a Trusted Execution Environment utilizing ARM TrustZone technology, " said Olivier Piou, CEO of Gemalto.
Virtualization enables tablet users to work and play from anywhere, with the security to protect sensitive enterprise data.
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But web application security caught up and a well-defined set of practices now exists to protect sensitive data.
The inspection provisions will give foreign competitors an opportunity to garner sensitive data and conduct industrial espionage here.
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Criminal software can infiltrate personal computers and company networks to steal sensitive data.
It is a risk which has prompted strict laws intended to safeguard sensitive data, both in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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Facebook has denied allegations that third-party advertisers have been able to access sensitive data for millions of Facebook users for years.
Having a mixed portfolio of cloud services, as well as on-premises capabilities, may be the best way to guard sensitive data, they suggest.
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Called InVincible, this drive allows users to protect sensitive data from third party access in one of two ways, both with a click of a button.
The systems are used mainly to secure sensitive data and comply with government rules, but they also generate lots of personal information on employees' online behavior.
Instead smaller teams of hackers, like LulzSec, are focused on breaking into the servers of their targets to steal sensitive data, a more potent kind of information warfare.
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