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NEW TECH: DigiCert Document Signing Manager leverages PKI to advance electronic signatures

The Last Watchdog

Most of us, by now, take electronic signatures for granted. Related: Why PKI will endure as the Internet’s secure core. Yet electronic signatures do have their security limitations. Clearly, a more robust approach to verifying identities in the current and future digital landscape would be useful.

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GUEST ESSAY – A primer on ‘WAAP’ – an approach to securing APIs at the web app layer

The Last Watchdog

One could make the argument that Application Programming Interfaces — APIs – are a vital cornerstone of digital transformation. Related: How a dynamic WAF can help protect SMBs. APIs interconnect the underlying components of modern digital services in a very flexible, open way. API complexity. Tool limitations.

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GUEST ESSAY: Securing your cryptocurrency — best practices for Bitcoin wallet security

The Last Watchdog

Strong security measures become increasingly important as more people use this digital currency. Related: Currency exchange security issues For managing and keeping your Bitcoin assets, you must need a bitcoin wallet, which is a digital version of a conventional wallet. Select a reliable wallet. Use strong passwords, 2FA.

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MY TAKE: ‘Digital trust’ has a huge role to play mitigating cybersecurity threats, going forward

The Last Watchdog

Modern digital systems simply could not exist without trusted operations, processes and connections. Related: Leveraging PKI to advance electronic signatures. Today we’re in the throes of digital transformation. Digital services get delivered across a complex amalgam of public cloud, hybrid cloud and on-premises digital systems.

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How is DNSSEC different from encryption? 

IBM Big Data Hub

While DNSSEC protects networks against man-in-the-middle attacks, it does so through public key cryptography, which is different from encryption. DNSSEC uses public key cryptography to digitally “sign,” or authenticate, DNS queries. This is enabled by a digital signature that uses public keys to authenticate data.

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India Poised to Enact Digital Personal Data Protection Bill

Hunton Privacy

On August 9, 2023, India’s upper house ( i.e. , Rajya Sabha) passed the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill (“DPDPB”), two days after India’s lower house ( i.e. , Lok Sabha) passed the legislation. The DPDPB now heads to India President Droupadi Murmu for signature.

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3 Key Takeaways from the recently announced NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Standards

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

3 Key Takeaways from the recently announced NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Standards madhav Thu, 09/07/2023 - 05:16 The world relies on many protective measures today, even if it isn’t something you notice. Signature - CRYSTALS-DILITHIUM becomes --> FIPS 204 Module-Lattice based Digital Signature Standard (ML-DSA) c.