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IBM is working with partners on its Digital Health Pass, which allows for easy sharing of health credentials such as a COVID-19 vaccine or test. IBM's GM Jason Kelley shares details.
Ai released a report detailing the findings of a survey of over 600 enterprise IT, security, and business decision makers on the state of digital transformation in their business and ROI during the COVID-19 pandemic. Digital transformation ROI. Survey respondents overwhelmingly agreed that visibility into planning processes and the alignment of software development and delivery processes to business objectives are critical to driving better business outcomes.
Mastercard on Monday announced that it's acquiring digital identity verification company Ekata for $850 million. The acquisition of Seattle-based Ekata is part of Mastercard's plan to boost its identity verification capabilities.
HID Global announced the general availability WorkforceID Authentication, the latest addition to its cloud platform for creating a seamless, effortless experience for issuing, managing and using identity credentials in physical and digital workplaces. "A person's identity has become the new security perimeter in a hybrid workplace that now extends from home to the office and everywhere in between," said Julian Lovelock, VP Global Business Segment, IAM, with HID Global.
An unfortunate byproduct of the employee turnover is the cybersecurity threat that comes with having a significant number of former employees. "A lot of companies fail to have clear policies or a checklist that employers use for post-employee separation. This is extremely important because failing to do so is going to involve a lot of things but the most important thing is that you want to make sure that the former employee or even a subcontractor that previously had access to the organization's technologies and systems is completely locked out," Guccione said in an interview.
While developing a seamless and successful digital mindset with a security strategy is not a simple task, the effort is crucial for the health of a company. To help development teams write more secure code, companies must take measure of developers' existing security knowledge and workflows, as well as understand how security impacts their end users.
Based on extensive analysis of real-world data risks and available through Digital Guardian's Managed Security Program, the cloud-delivered DLP service for midsize companies streamlines the deployment and management of an enterprise-grade data loss prevention program. Addressing these workforce dynamics, Digital Guardian's Managed DLP for midsize companies channel program provides time- and resource-constrained organizations with affordable, sustainable data protection that can be deployed in days and drastically reduces the risk of sensitive data loss.
The new release tests and detects any issues in the digital workspace - before the end-user experiences an outage. "Controlling unplanned changes is an ongoing, daily challenge for most enterprises," said Michael Kent, CTO of Login VSI. "Login Enterprise version 4.5 prevents any business outage, resulting from planned and unplanned changes, by continuously testing the Digital Workspace 24/7 from pre-production thru production."
"Yet as high-profile breaches like SolarWinds illustrate, the complexity of cloud environments makes rapid investigation and response extremely difficult since security analysts typically are not trained as cloud experts." "Cado Security solves for this with an elegant solution that automates time-consuming tasks like capturing forensically sound cloud data so security teams can move faster and more efficiently. The opportunity to help Cado Security scale rapidly is a terrific one for Blossom Capital."
Microsoft has released its latest biannual digital trust reports on the Microsoft Reports Hub. The tech giant also released its latest Microsoft Privacy Report with this larger group of reports.