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Optionis, the group that includes umbrella and accountancy companies providing services to tech contractors, has confirmed that following last month's digital break-in customer data is being leaked online. Parent Optionis Group later said that divisions SJD Accountancy and Nixon Williams were also hit.
5 services and tools helping companies with digital safety. As more companies and people use different digital platforms to advertise and promote their products and services, online integrity and safety are rapidly becoming a priority topic of concern.
Target, one of the largest American department store chains and e-commerce retailers, has open sourced 'Merry Maker' - its years-old proprietary scanner for payment card skimming. A skimmer is malicious code injected into shopping sites to steal customers' credit card data at checkout.
Wazuh is a free and open source security platform that unifies XDR and SIEM capabilities, which not only enables companies to detect sophisticated threats, but can also help immensely in preventing data breaches and leaks from happening. Read on to find out more on how Wazuh can help with cybersecurity for businesses.
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.