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A highly focused approach to digital transformation is challenging the traditional top-down, all-or-nothing strategy, according to a report from Plutoshift. The report details a more targeted, incremental approach to digital transformation called operation-specific digital transformation.
The IT department, as always, will be on task to track access grants and any other duties under IGA. Identity fatigue is the enemy of transformation. Digital transformation of identity isn't as simple as swapping identity solution A for identity solution B, or spending more on your existing solution.
Their paper identifies "Digital thought clones," which act as digital twins that constantly collect personal data in real-time, and then predict and analyze the data to manipulate people's decisions. Activity from apps, social media accounts, gadgets, GPS tracking, online and offline behavior and activities, and public records are all used to formulate what they call a "Digital thought clone".
Exterro announced it has acquired AccessData, a provider of digital forensic investigation technology. By combining forces with AccessData, Exterro can now provide companies, government agencies, law enforcement, law firms and legal service providers with the only solution available to address all Legal GRC and digital investigation needs in one integrated platform.
Aerospike announced that it provides its Cloud Managed Service to Experian CrossCore integrated digital identity and fraud risk platform. Experian's CrossCore is an identity and fraud risk platform that consolidates and orchestrates numerous fraud risk signals into a single, holistic assessment to improve operational processes, stay ahead of fraudsters, and protect customers.
The study shows that 84% of global decision makers are accelerating their digital transformation plans, in response to growing demands from users, who want more flexibility to work remotely in the future. During COVID-19, global decision makers cited three main impacts on their enterprise applications strategies.
26% of remote workers have experienced a cyber attack personally, while 45% of employers have asked their employees to use their personal devices for work since the start of the pandemic, according to a Microsoft research. The study surveyed 500 employees and 200 business decision makers in September 2020 about remote working, digital security behaviours, and the worries they now face.
With that in mind, UK consumer magazine Which? recently went online and bought 11 different digital doorbells - a type of IoT device made popular by the Ring product - to see how they stacked up. For what it's worth, we might not describe all the vulnerabilities that Which? found as "High-risk" ourselves, given that it seems some of them aren't irremediably baked into the affected devices and can be avoided by taking the time to set up the devices correctly, such as picking a proper password.
Now researchers from Intel and the University of Pennsylvania Medical School say they have found a solution: Federated Learning. Google's Federated Learning model was able to detect when the phone was plugged in and on a Wi-Fi connections and "Train a neural network on your local data," Reina continued.
DigiCert and Atea jointly announced a partnership to launch the new Atea Managed Certificate Service offering insight into certificate health, usage and endpoint vulnerabilities to ensure the best possible customer experience for secure communication. Delivered by Atea Managed Services and powered by core DigiCert CertCentral technology the new service includes the ability to automatically locate, identify, and track all certificates in use with 24/7 monitoring, management and renewals throughout any network and connected device environment.