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The Car Connectivity Consortium announced that its CCC Digital Key Release 3.0 specification is finalized and now available to CCC members. "The CCC Digital Key already enables your mobile device to be used as a key for your vehicle," said Daniel Knobloch, president, CCC. "With the CCC Digital Key Release 3, the user experience just got even better. The combination of Ultra Wideband and Bluetooth Low Energy will allow you to leave your mobile device in your bag or pocket when approaching to unlock and start your vehicle - making Digital Key even more convenient."
Hong Kong's Office of the Government Chief Information Officer has revealed that the territory is investigating the use of its digital ID in mainland China. In a Q&A, Secretary for Innovation and Technology, Mr Alfred Sit, said "The OGCIO is exploring with relevant authorities in the Mainland and Macao the collaboration opportunities between their identity authentication systems and iAM Smart."
As businesses recover from the impact of COVID-19, their top goals include improving efficiency, productivity, and customer experience, and are increasingly relying on data. "Robust data management platforms are likely to be strong acquisition targets for hybrid cloud providers to integrate data management functionality into their hybrid cloud management platforms," said Karyn Price, Information and Communication Technology Research Analyst at Frost & Sullivan.
Electronic IDentification launches HelloID, a solution aimed mainly at the financial and governmental sectors, which allows to build any digital onboarding process in hours. HelloID leverages Electronic IDentification's expertise in technology, regulation, and user experience to offer a flexible, easy-to-use, and easy-to-integrate solution.
While maintaining its current management, brand and service, Tresorit will remain an independent company within Swiss Post Group and will continue to serve its global target regions of EU countries, the UK and the US. Joint vision of Tresorit and Swiss Post: privacy is key to digitalizing information exchange. "From the very beginning, our mission has been to empower everyone to stay in control of their digital valuables. We are proud to have found a partner in Swiss Post who shares our values on security and privacy and makes us even stronger. We are convinced that this collaboration strengthens both companies and opens up new opportunities for us and our customers", says Istvan Lam, Co-founder and CEO of Tresorit.
On June 9, 2021, the III annual international online training event Cyber Polygon took place. 200 organizations from 48 countries tested their skills in repelling cyber threats as part of Cyber Polygon 2021.
On the eve of its actual release, the scams have begun anew. Superhero film "Black Widow" is finally getting its official release on July 9, and Kaspersky is warning that scammers are using the highly anticipated movie as a way to make off with watcher's credit card information and commit other cybercrimes.
NICE launched CXone SmartReach following the acquisition of ContactEngine. CXone SmartReach is a comprehensive artificial intelligence powered solution that enables organizations to have proactive, multi-day, asynchronous conversations - interacting with customers through their channels of choice even before they reach out for service.
As if things weren't bad enough for the untold number of Western Digital customers whose data blinked out of existence last month, there's another zero-day waiting for whoever can't or won't upgrade its My Cloud storage devices. It's found in all Western Digital NAS devices running the old, no-longer-supported My Cloud 3 operating system: an OS that the researchers said is "In limbo," given that Western Digital recently stopped supporting it.
Due to these factors, the global digital signature market size is expected to attain value of $25,211. Demand for online transactions boosting the digital signature market.