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Insights into consumer attitudes to biometric payments
Biometric payments are poised for significant growth, but substantial consumer security concerns could put its future at risk according to a new report from Transaction …

Achieving compliance: GDPR, CCPA and beyond
AB 375, or the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) of 2018, was signed into law by California Governor, Jerry Brown, on June 28, 2018 and is recognized as one of the …

Enterprise IT modernization: Replace prerelational DBMS systems
Prerelational database management systems (DBMSs) are aging technology, and the number of applications using these systems is declining. The market share for prerelational …

Six best practices to follow in access control
Finding the right access control for your organization is best done in stages. In this way, you’ll be able to foresee costs and activities that you must tackle both on …

How rogue data puts organisations at risk of GDPR noncompliance
The GDPR compliance deadline came in by force on 25th May 2018 and applies to all organisations processing and holding the personal information of data subjects. This includes …

Risks grow, yet security is still an afterthought in many IoT strategies
Trend Micro released survey findings that show businesses are most concerned about losing customer trust in the event of an Internet of Things related cyber attack, however …

Week in review: Bluetooth flaw, ERP applications under attack, advancing security with machine learning
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: SCADA vulnerabilities in ICS architectures A major challenge in industrial control …

Same web-based vulnerabilities still prevalent after nine years
Analysis of vulnerabilities discovered by NCC Group researchers over the last nine years found that instances of common web-based vulnerabilities have largely refused to fall …

Business leaders concerned about security, data backup is a key opportunity
New research from Kaseya shows how IT groups at SMBs are faring as IT management demands grow in both number and complexity. The survey, based on input from nearly 1,300 …

The primary email security challenge enterprises face is trust
Only 34 percent of users without email security responsibility recall seeing email-based attacks in their inboxes, compared to 85 percent of email security professionals, …

Most organizations investing in AI, very few succeeding
Today, only one in three AI projects are succeeding, and, perhaps more importantly, it is taking businesses more than six months to go from concept to production, according to …

SCADA vulnerabilities in ICS architectures
A major challenge in industrial control system architecture involves the dual nature of its underlying technologies. That is, a typical ICS component must have the capability …
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