Steve Prentice

When it comes to cyber-related crimes such as data breaches and deepfakes, none of us must look very far for a story that hits close to home. But there’s a problem with this. We tend to look at ourselves, searching for the mistakes we made, the phishing link we clicked on, or the deepfake we fell for. It is always a case of “we got attacked, what did we do wrong?” That is not to say that we are unaware of the existence of cybercriminals. But are we sufficiently aware of the context in which these attacks succeed? For years,…

Fear doesn’t always manifest as panic. Sometimes, it sounds like, “Let’s wait until next quarter,” or “We’re not the kind of company that gets hit.” In our personal and professional lives, fear often disguises itself as logic or restraint. But more often than not, it’s the root cause of delay, inaction, and missed opportunities, especially when it comes to preventing disasters before they strike. The Cost of Corporate Fear Cybersecurity is the perfect case study. Despite a steady drumbeat of ransomware headlines and breach statistics, many companies continue to underinvest in training, ignore vulnerabilities, and sideline experts. Why? Because fear…

At the conclusion of each calendar year, organizations and observers across all industries try to put forward predictions on what the new year might hold, and we at Thales were no exception. In the latest episode of our Thales Security Sessions podcast episode, entitled Predictions, I spoke with guest David Holmes, CTO for Application Security at Imperva, in detail about this very issue. David delivered some excellent observations on the activities and technologies that currently vie for our attention, including AI, passkeys, APTs, and ransomware. When considering all of these variables, the constant thing that kept coming back to my…

Data sovereignty refers to the principle that digital information can remain subject to the laws and governance structures of the country where it is collected or stored. But this, like most things related to the cloud, is more complicated than it first appears. When organizations use cloud services, it is almost a given that when organizations use cloud services, the data will fly over borders, being bounced around through many data centers in multiple jurisdictions. This makes it challenging for organizations to know exactly where their data resides, even when the law requires that they do. For example, a company…

It takes up to 7,500 liters of water to manufacture a single pair of jeans. All the work required to soften denim to a texture that consumers will buy, as well as the addition of sandblasting to distress them to satisfy current trends, makes the product a very thirsty and environmentally unfriendly one. But who really thinks about that? No one ever associates a finished product with the resources required to make it, and the same goes for the cloud, a product that seems to have no weight or substance unto itself, save for its presence as a container for…