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MY TAKE: Why ‘basic research’ is so vital to bringing digital transformation to full fruition

The Last Watchdog

Basic research is the foundational theorizing and testing scientists pursue in order to advance their understanding of a phenomenon in the natural world, and, increasingly, in the digital realm. Lots of big companies sponsor basic research; it’s how progress gets made. NTT Group, for instance, typically spends more than $3.6

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MY TAKE: Why IoT systems won’t be secure until each and every microservice is reliably authenticated

The Last Watchdog

First, the identities of any two digital entities – a sensor and a control server, for instance, or even a microservice and a container — must be authenticated, and, second, the data exchanged between any two such digital instances must be encrypted. Nelson: The Japanese government, the U.K.,

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GUEST ESSAY: Five stages to attain API security — and mitigate attack surface exposures

The Last Watchdog

APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) play a critical role in digital transformation by enabling communication and data exchange between different systems and applications. So, how can you ensure your API security is effective and enable your digital transformation?

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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. They require integrity, authentication, trusted identity and encryption. Today we’re in the throes of digital transformation. However, PKI has engrained itself much more pervasively than that across the digital landscape.

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

The Last Watchdog

And PKI , of course, is the behind-the-scenes authentication and encryption framework on which the Internet is built. As digital transformation has quickened, it has become clear that electronic signatures are destined to become even more pervasively used to conduct business remotely. Achieving high assurance.

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Part 1: OMG! Not another digital transformation article! Is it about understanding the business drivers?

ARMA International

Now information technologies and the information revolution are again transforming society. The COVID-19 pandemic further accelerated the transformation from many years to just a couple of years. This 3-part series will discuss digital transformation (DT) from several perspectives. The Genesis of Digital Transformation.

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NEW TECH: DigiCert unveils ‘Automation Manager’ to help issue, secure digital certificates

The Last Watchdog

When the popular streaming audio service went offline globally, last August, we saw a glimpse of just how tenuous digital transformation sometimes can be. If Spotify has an excuse, it is that the complexity of issuing and managing digital certificates has become prodigious. Related: Why it’s vital to secure IoT.