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Digital identification is the focus of two reports by the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity: an analysis of self-sovereign identity and a study of major face presentation attacks. The technologies falling under the name of self-sovereign identity consist in giving identity holders greater control over their identity.
Vaccine passport technology has become an intrinsic part of society over the past year, as governments across the globe search for solutions that help protect citizens from the pandemic. 76% of Brits would be comfortable having some of their data incorporated into a digital ID, because they sound easy to use, all their information would be in one place, and they're more difficult to lose than physical IDs.
Myanmar's military junta has floated a cyber security law that would ban the use of virtual private networks, under penalty of imprisonment and/or fines, leaving digital rights organisations concerned about the effects of further closing the country off digitally to the outside world. As the country faced a military coup in February 2021, the newly installed Tatmadaw banned Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, prompting users in the country to rely on VPNs to retain access to their preferred online communication services.
Financial services firms who invested in next-gen technologies and continued their digital transformation push in 2021 are already experiencing the positive effects of these investments, according to a global survey of 750 financial service firms, released by Broadridge Financial Solutions. It also evaluated progress in developing the strategic and organizational components of transformation, as well as use of next-gen technologies such as AI, blockchain and the cloud to categorize firms as Beginners, Implementers, Advancers or Leaders in the Broadridge Digital Transformation Maturity Framework.
The proven approach in the market today is with digital certificates, which leverage PKI. In fact, some of the best authentication mechanisms leverage digital certificates at their core. In this case, when leveraging digital certificates as a baseline for human and machine identities, digital certificates must be provisioned to users and devices, and ultimately, orchestrated and automated.
The research reveals the challenges organizations face as they overwhelmingly turn to multicloud architectures to achieve the agility and scalability needed to keep up with the pace of digital transformation. Multicloud strategies have led to a surge in complexity, with infrastructure teams drowning in data as they try to monitor and manage their constantly changing environments.
US companies should be on the lookout for security nasties from Ukrainian partners following the digital graffiti and malware attack launched against Ukraine by Belarus, the CISA has warned. "If working with Ukrainian organizations, take extra care to monitor, inspect, and isolate traffic from those organizations; closely review access controls for that traffic," added CISA, which also advised reviewing backups and disaster recovery drills.
The global digital asset management market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 18.36% over the forecast period to reach a market size of $10.018 billion in 2026, from $3.078 billion in 2019, according to ResearchAndMarkets. The growing era of digital content across all industries from healthcare and finance to publishing and education is contributing to the growth of the digital asset management market.
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated enterprise digital transformation by three to five years as companies build IT ecosystems to enable growth, innovation and improved customer experiences under new conditions, according to a research report published by Information Services Group. "The pandemic has forced enterprises to explore new ways to enable remote work, manage supply and demand and remain competitive," said Prashant Kelker, partner and Americas leader, ISG Digital.
A successful partnership can also accelerate the resolution of security issues whilst increasing network resilience, helping both network and security teams to achieve their goals. Whilst network operations prioritize producing highly available and high-performing networks, the security teams have the different task of lowering risk to the business and protecting the network.