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The bad news keeps on rolling for British recruitment agency Morgan Hunt amid confirmation it suffered a digital burglary, with intruders making off with the personal data for some of the freelancers on its books. The info accessed on the database included contractors' names, contact details, identity documents, proof of address documents, National Insurance number, and date of birth.
As the world's legal entities rush to digitize their processes and transactions, confidence in digital authenticity is in short supply. Thankfully, a single, open and universal protocol that will enable legal entities everywhere to verify the authenticity of digital information and its sources is now emerging.
As the alternative investment industry tackles a rapidly changing threat landscape, increased regulation, and a continuous need to innovate, most firms are increasing their DX and security budgets and cite security as critically important to their DX initiatives, according to IDC. Senior leaders from 400 global alternative investment institutions in U.S., Canada, France, U.K., and Germany were surveyed to understand the current state of digital transformation and cybersecurity, identify key barriers and benefits of an aligned strategy, and explore the growing role of consulting services as strategic partners. Investment in cybersecurity and digital transformation is growing, but execution in-house is decreasing with outsourcing trends increasing.
The new head of Israel's National Cyber Directorate has announced the nation intends to build a "Cyber-Dome" - a national defense system to fend off digital attacks. Gaby Portnoy, director general of INCD, revealed plans for Cyber-Dome on Tuesday, delivering his first public speech since his appointment to the role in February.
Connectivity is soaring and digital transformation is accelerating, making it critical for the technology community, governments and corporate boardrooms to invest in digital trust. As digital transformation has continued to accelerate, digital trust has become an essential requirement of online operations.
A single forgotten, abandoned or unknown digital asset is a cybersecurity timebomb. Effective digital asset management - including IP address visibility - is your foundation to thwart an attacker's path of least resistance into your network.
"Our research reveals that digital twin deployments are being driven by both top and bottom lines, as well as safety, sustainability and brand reputation," the Reflecting Reality - Digital Twins: Adding Intelligence to the Real World study said. Operators can input changes into the digital twin and have those changes reflected in the real world or real-world inputs can be represented in the digital twin alerting operations teams to potential problems with shipments, machines, production, business processes and the like.
Due to SaaS, in 2021 the number of cybercriminals in one scam gang increased 10 times compared to 2020 and now reaches 100. In 2021, scams were the most common type of cybercrime.
Network engineers and CIOs agree that cybersecurity issues represent the biggest risk for organizations that fail to put networks at the heart of digital transformation plans. According to a research commissioned by Opengear, 53% of network engineers and 52% of CIOs polled in the U.S., U.K., France, Germany, and Australia rank cybersecurity among the list of their biggest risks.
New South Wales, Australia's most populous state, launched its DDL program in 2019, and as of 2021 officials there said that slightly more than half of the state's eight million people use the "Service NSW" app that displays the DDL and offers access to many other government services. "The DDL is hosted securely on the new Service NSW app, locks with a PIN and can be accessed offline. It will provide additional levels of security and protection against identity fraud, compared to the plastic driver licence," NSW Minister for Customer Service Victor Dominello said in 2019 when the service launched.