Organizations that act now will not only protect their data—they will protect their reputation, their relationships and their ...

Coupang disclosed a data breach affecting 33.7 million customers after unauthorized access to personal data went undetected ...

Terry Halvorsen is preparing for the inevitable — what he refers to as a “ripple in the force.” The chief information officer for the Defense Department is steeling himself for the fear and discontent ...

As of October 2025, the American Hospital Association had logged 364 healthcare hacking incidents this year. Unbelievably, ...

Any data stored on businesses’ systems is an asset but it’s also a liability. Stored on nearly every computer and/or server across a variety of industries, data is not just vulnerable in the event of ...

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. Cloud computing services have ...

Microsoft has tried on a few occasions to use proprietary encryption algorithms rather than rely on industry-standard algorithms. The theory was that a closed-source proprietary algorithm was that ...

The increasing amount of data we’re all generating is everywhere: in smartphones, laptops, thumb drives, and dozens of online services. How can we secure all of them against unwarranted access? We ...

Encryption is one of the best ways to prevent the type of terrible headaches that many high-profile companies have experienced with stolen data. Even if experienced hackers are able to penetrate a ...

Google said Thursday it will by default encrypt data warehoused in its Cloud Storage service. The server-side encryption is now active for all new data written to Cloud Storage, and older data will be ...