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Delta Airlines to ‘rethink Microsoft’ in wake of CrowdStrike outage

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In the wake of the widespread outage caused by a defective update to CrowdStrike’s Falcon cybersecurity platform, Delta Airlines is among the first enterprises to come forward to demand compensation from CrowdStrike and Microsoft for the enormous losses caused by the interruption of its flights during the failure.

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What is predictive analytics? Transforming data into future insights

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Hotels, restaurants, and other hospitality industry players can use the technology to forecast the number of guests on any given night in order to maximize occupancy and revenue. The technology helps adopters in fields as diverse as finance, healthcare, retailing, hospitality, pharmaceuticals, automotive, aerospace, and manufacturing.

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PCI DSS version 4.0: Is your payment card data security program ready?

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In the Hospitality industry, credit card data was the target of 41% of cyberattacks, according to the 2023 DBIR. According to the 2023 edition of Verizon’s Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), payment card data was compromised in 37% of breaches in 2022. It is also a high-value target.

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What to do when your IT provider vanishes

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The consequences can vary, from interruptions in manufacturing that can directly affect the supply of the product, to the loss of data or the need to migrate to new platforms, which generates additional costs, or causes damage to the corporate image,” says Raquel García, IT manager at science and technology company Merck.

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IoT Adoption in Healthcare Brings Security Opportunities

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In hospital and healthcare settings around the world, connected medical devices support critical patient care delivery and a wide variety of clinical functions, from medical infusion pumps and surgical robots to vital sign monitors, ambulance equipment, and so much more. We’ve seen hospital operations halted.

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Importance of Data-Driven Cybersecurity for Medical Device Companies

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This is why hospitals should not use the outdated device for collecting and storing data. Scarily enough, the FDA found that many US hospitals were using outdated medical devices. The hospitals should train their employees on online threats and ways to deal with them. These devices were especially vulnerable to cyber-attacks.

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The Importance of Identity Management in Security

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billion global financial loss, according to some sources. Think of the dual identities needed in terms of production and business for mining, agriculture, oil and gas, transportation, hospitality, retail, and logistics, as well as policing and the military. When should a developer access data on-premises or in the public cloud?

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