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Fintech security: the challenges and fails of a new era

February 5, 2020 0 Comments cryptocurrency, finacials, fintech, GDPR, green padlock, identity management, Magecart, payment requests, Ransomware, Vital infrastructure, web skimmers

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2020 19:24:35 +0000

The fintech industry has gone through some dramatic changes during the last decade and is still trying to adapt. Is security still one of their priorities?

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MalwareBytes Security

Explained: the strengths and weaknesses of the Zero Trust model

January 28, 2020 0 Comments byod, Cloud, explained, framework, identity management, insider threats, IoT, lateral threat movement, MFA, perimeter, RDP, Security, security orchestration, strategy, Zero Trust, zero trust model, zero trust security model

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 16:00:00 +0000

Zero Trust is an information security framework that insists its users “never trust, always verify.” Is this the best security model for organizations today? We examine its strengths and weaknesses.

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ComputerWorld Independent

Amid privacy and security failures, digital IDs advance

January 6, 2020 0 Comments Blockchain, Emerging Technology, Financial Services Industry, Government IT, identity management, Privacy, Security

Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2020 03:00:00 -0800

Frustration over a growing number of privacy and security failuresin recent years is driving the creation of digital identities controlled only by those whose information they contain.

Known as “self-sovereign identities,” the digital IDs will be used by consumers, businesses, their workers and governments over the next few years to verify everything from credit worthiness and college diplomas to licenses and business-to-business credentials.

“We are slowly graduating from crawling to walking. It takes one to two years ’til we have reliable capabilities to spark meaningful decentralized identity adoption,” said Homan Farahmand, a senior research director at Gartner. “A major non-technical hurdle is for organizations to learn the concept and take the necessary steps to appropriately adapt their business processes to decentralized identity ecosystems.”

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