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The State of Blockchain Applications in Cybersecurity

eSecurity Planet

Whether perceived or real, a lack of understanding about blockchain technology has slowed the adoption of advanced distributed database technology in the past decade. This functionality makes forging a record in a blockchain ledger extremely difficult at best. However, federal officials didn’t reverse the blockchain transaction.

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Encryption: How It Works, Types, and the Quantum Future

eSecurity Planet

Through public and commercial development of advanced encryption methods, organizations from sensitive government agencies to enterprise companies can ensure protected communications between personnel, devices, and global offices. The need for a government-wide standard to encrypt sensitive information was evident in 1973, when the U.S.

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Top Cybersecurity Accounts to Follow on Twitter

eSecurity Planet

Krebs wrote for The Washington Post between 1995 and 2009 before launching his current blog KrebsOnSecurity.com. — Jack Daniel (@jack_daniel) October 10, 2018. If the US government dictating iPhone encryption design sounds ok to you, ask yourself how you'll feel when China demands the same. Jason Haddix | @JHaddix.

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Part 3: OMG! Not another digital transformation article! Is it about effecting risk management and change management?

ARMA International

Some technology trends such as real-time data analytics are ongoing, while others are more recent, such as blockchain. Take the example of the pandemic: only some governments engaged pandemic experts to develop actions plans. Figure 3: Digital capability levels. Figure 5: Risks versus benefits of storing data.

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Predictions 2021: How’d I Do? Pretty Damn Well.

John Battelle's Searchblog

It’s been three decades since I’ve seen an outburst of pure technology euphoria like the vibes coming off the crypto/web3/blockchain space. I’ve been monitoring crypto for years (one of my 2018 predictions was “Crypto/blockchain dies as a major story”), and went pretty deep this past 18 months or so.

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Predictions 2018: How I Did. (Pretty Damn Well, Turns Out)

John Battelle's Searchblog

Here we go: Prediction #1: Crypto/blockchain dies as a major story. Cast yourself back to late 2017 when Bitcoin was pushing $20,000 and the entire tech sector was obsessed with blockchain everything. 2018 is a year of hard work on the problems that have kept blockchain from becoming what most of us believe it can truly become.

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Predictions 2021: Disinformation, SPACs, Africa, Facebook, and a Return to Tech Optimism

John Battelle's Searchblog

Candidates include biotech and bioinformatics (the core technologies behind the COVID vaccine), blockchain (though I’m certain bitcoin will have at least one of its several crashes this year), and lithium batteries (giving us hope on climate change and driving my otherwise random prediction on gas-powered cars, below). 2009 Predictions.

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