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Most Recent 2022 Data Breaches

August 2022. A hacker publicized 22 million QuestionPro email addresses and other data. The same
hacker previously successfully breached the FBI and Robinhood.

July, 2022. A hacker posted 5.4 million Twitter accounts for sale on a hacker forum. A few days earlier
another hacker posted 69 million Neopets (virtual pet website) accounts to the same forum. In both
incidents hackers exploited Zero Days to scrape confidential data from websites.

July, 2022. Hackers stole 20 gigabytes of sensitive data from Marriott International. The sensitive data
included flight information and credit card numbers.

July, 2022. Massachusetts-based Shields Health Care Group disclosed they were breached in March
2022. The continental data stolen by hackers included names, social security numbers, medical records,
and other sensitive personal information.

Conventional approaches to cyber security may NOT prevent Data Exfiltration and Data Breaches. In
2020 the DHS, Department of State, U.S. Marine Corps and the Missile Defense Agency recognized this
and all issued requests for proposals (RFP) for network full packet data capture for Deep Packet
Inspection analysis (DPI) of network traffic. This is an important step forward protecting confidential
database data and organization information.

Zero-day vulnerabilities that allow hackers to gain system privileges are a major threat to all organizations
encrypted and unencrypted confidential data. Confidential data includes: credit card, tax ID, medical,
social media, corporate, manufacturing, trade secrets, law enforcement, defense, homeland security,
power grid and public utility data. This confidential data is almost always stored in DB2, Informix,
MariaDB, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL and SAP Sybase databases.

How to Stop Data Exfiltration and Data Breaches with Deep Packet Inspection

Protecting encrypted and unencrypted confidential database data is much more than securing databases,
operating systems, applications and the network perimeter against Hackers, Rogue Insiders,
Government-backed Hacking Teams and Supply Chain Attacks.

Non-intrusive network sniffing technology can perform a real-time Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) of 100%
of the database activity from a network tap or proxy server with no impact on the database servers. The
database SQL activity is very predictable. Database servers servicing 1,000 to 10,000 end-users typically
process daily 2,000 to 10,000 unique queries or SQL commands that run millions of times a day. Deep
Packet Analysis does not require logging into the monitored networks, servers or databases. This
approach can provide CISOs with what they can rarely achieve. Total visibility into the database activity
24x7 and 100% protection of confidential database data.

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