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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.
The partnership will further enhance Cellulant's cybersecurity by proactively securing its digital banking channels and guarding against digital banking and payment fraud. Entersekt is working with the Cellulant team to integrate its mobile software development kit with Cellulant's product stack, making Entersekt's authentication and app security solutions available to Cellulant's clients.
Experian announces that it has completed the acquisition of Tapad - a provider in digital identity resolution for marketers that helps to connect brands to consumers, primarily in the United States. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in New York, Tapad provides cross-device data, digital linking and distribution capabilities, which will complement Experian's leading offline identity and marketing data assets.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called on the nation's technology industry to start designing products for the world, and for youth to create new digital defences. In a speech to the Bengaluru Tech Summit, a major Indian tech event, Modi opened by saying: "Today, I am glad to say that Digital India is no longer being seen as any regular Government initiative. Digital India has become a way of life."
Group-IB has presented its new solution for digital identity protection and fraud prevention Fraud Hunting Platform. Fraud Hunting Platform becomes an integrated solution that will play a key role in protecting users.
Magnite announces its support of the open-source, interoperable identity solution, Unified ID 2.0, in collaboration with The Trade Desk and other companies across the digital advertising industry. Magnite will adopt Unified ID 2.0, an open source framework for hashing and encrypting email addresses, in order to create a common transaction fabric for digital advertising.