Krebs on Security

MAY 31, 2019

That measure, which went into effect in March 2019 and is considered among the toughest in the nation, requires financial companies to regularly audit and report on how they protect sensitive data, and provides for fines in cases where violations were reckless or willful. No authentication was needed to access the digitized records.

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Financial Services Insurance Sales Authentication 203

Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The California Attorney General issued its first CCPA fine based on a company’s alleged failure to provide sale opt-outs for third-party advertising cookies and not recognize the Global Privacy Control signal. Data protection impact assessments would also be required, including for products in existence when the law would come into effect.

Privacy 197

Privacy B2B Sales Compliance 197

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Data breaches in the retail sector illustrate the vulnerabilities inherent to this industry, emphasizing the need for robust cybersecurity measures. This finding not only underscores the vulnerability of the retail sector but also accentuates the financial repercussions of such breaches. This is a critical lesson for retailers.

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Retail Cybersecurity Financial Services Encryption 83

IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 5, 2024

How AI and HPC deliver results faster: Industry use cases At the very heart of this lies data, which helps enterprises gain valuable insights to accelerate transformation. With data nearly everywhere, organizations often possess an existing repository acquired from running traditional HPC simulation and modeling workloads.

Artificial Intelligence 69

Artificial Intelligence Computer and Electronics Financial Services Manufacturing 69

IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The financial services industry has been in the process of modernizing its data governance for more than a decade. How can banks, credit unions, and financial advisors keep up with demanding regulations while battling restricted budgets and higher employee turnover? The answer is data lineage. Stakeholders?

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Financial Services Cloud Metadata Digital transformation 98

Krebs on Security

APRIL 28, 2020

But you probably didn’t know that these fraudsters also can use caller ID spoofing to trick your bank into giving up information about recent transactions on your account — data that can then be abused to make their phone scams more believable and expose you to additional forms of identity theft. Click to enlarge.

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Financial Services Sales Authentication Risk 355

IT Governance

OCTOBER 13, 2023

So, as ever, this blog series examines recent phishing campaigns and the tactics criminals use to trick people into compromising their data. These phishing emails have reached the inboxes of users in multiple industries, including finance, manufacturing, financial services, energy, construction and healthcare.

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Phishing Financial Services Manufacturing Personal data 105

Info Source

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

With the pace of digitisation picking up in industries such as education, healthcare, legal, financial services, and logistics, multifunction printers and scanners will also experience strong sales. This category will pick up some slack for office automation vendors and resellers as paper volumes decline in the years ahead.

Financial Services 40

Financial Services Marketing Digital transformation Sales 40

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 10, 2022

The financial services ecosystem has evolved tremendously over the past few years driven by a surge in the adoption of digital payments. Our data shows us that in the first quarter of 2020, there was a larger shift to digital payment forms in 10 weeks than we had seen in the preceding five years. Tue, 01/11/2022 - 06:35.

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Retail Security Financial Services Authentication 126

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

A great number of financial services companies buy off-the-shelf, turn-key payment applications, and we know that Thales has many great partners, many of which I worked with directly during my tenure at Thales, that deliver these types of solutions.

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Financial Services Security Cloud Marketing 71

IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 18, 2024

Boost sales AI-powered chatbots generate leads , encourage conversions and cross-sell. For complex purchases with a multi-step sales funnel, chatbots can ask qualification questions and connect customers directly with trained sales agents to lift your conversion rate.

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Sales Artificial Intelligence Communications Marketing 93

IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 25, 2024

Organizations that provide an excellent customer experience (CX) can improve sales revenues by 2 to 7 percent and profitability by 1 to 2 percent, according to McKinsey. Focusing on good CX can increase customer satisfaction and drive more meaningful customer interactions, ultimately increasing sales and customer retention.

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Customer Experience Retail Sales Artificial Intelligence 72

Info Source

APRIL 4, 2023

Shinydocs has enabled leading organizations within the oil and gas/utilities, government, and financial services verticals to make more accurate, data-driven decisions whilst significantly reducing time searching for files and improving the overall customer and employee experiences. Read more from Jason Cassidy here.

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Unstructured data Customer Experience Marketing Financial Services 40

IBM Big Data Hub

MARCH 27, 2024

In some business sectors, such as financial services, fast-moving consumer goods and healthcare, business interruptions can have a significant detrimental impact on daily life. New low-emission products and services might also help a company compete by winning more sales from environmentally conscious buyers.

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Risk Artificial Intelligence Agriculture Financial Services 65

Info Source

DECEMBER 9, 2019

an industry leader in enterprise content capture and data discovery solutions, and Alliance Bank Malaysia Berhad , a bank well known for serving Malaysian small and medium enterprises (SMEs), today announced that the bank has implemented Ephesoft Transact for intelligent capture automation in their middle-office operations. IRVINE, Calif.,

Customer Experience 52

Customer Experience Financial Services Digital transformation Sales 52

Krebs on Security

MARCH 23, 2020

Historic WHOIS data from Domaintools.com says Webtechnologiesinc.net was registered in 2013 to a Marcus Ruskov in Toronto. Information about who registered Webtechnologiesletter.com is completely hidden behind privacy protection services. Now it makes sense why Web Listings Inc. had so many confusingly-named domain names.

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Sales Marketing Financial Services IT 250

Collibra

MARCH 11, 2021

Data governance is a very intricate field, so implementing and sustaining data governance comes with a suite of challenges. Luckily, thousands, if not millions, of organizations use data governance to improve their operations, so you can learn from others’ mistakes and successes. Focus on the operating model.

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Government Communications Insurance Customer Experience 59

Collibra

APRIL 11, 2022

Data governance is a very intricate field, so implementing and sustaining data governance comes with a suite of challenges. Luckily, thousands, if not millions, of organizations use data governance to improve their operations, so you can learn from others’ mistakes and successes. Identify data domains.

Government 52

Government Communications Insurance Customer Experience 52

IBM Big Data Hub

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

While organizations gather data and undergo detailed reviews to craft a budget, the market doesn’t stand still. Why budgeting feels like a marathon Just like marathon training takes months of preparation, crafting a budget involves a lot of data collection, metrics analysis, resource allocation and collaboration.

Analytics 88

Analytics Marketing Artificial Intelligence Sales 88

IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

DL models can improve over time through further training and exposure to more data. Predictive analytics integrates with NLP, ML and DL to enhance decision-making capabilities, extract insights, and use historical data to forecast future behavior, preferences and trends.

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Analytics Artificial Intelligence Marketing Education 103

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

AUGUST 23, 2021

Rather than bringing substantial changes to the existing China data privacy framework, the PIPL helpfully consolidates and clarifies obligations on processing of personal information at a national law level. To be clear, this is not China’s own GDPR.

Data Privacy 111

Data Privacy Privacy Compliance Analytics 111

Data Protection Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The big takeaway here is that even businesses that are not primarily engaged in financial services may still find themselves covered by GLBA and shielded from BIPA because “significantly [engaged] means something less than primary.” DePaul University , Case No. 21C3001 at 5 (N.D. Ill Nov 4, 2022). Territorial Scope.

Financial Services 98

Financial Services Privacy Compliance Insurance 98

The Last Watchdog

JUNE 15, 2023

Customer authentication For the past 15 years, e-commerce has increased as a percentage of all retail sales. The Web Payments Working Group anticipates more experimental data will be available by September 2023. The COVID pandemic appears to have slightly accelerated this trend.

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Authentication Communications Financial Services Retail 100

The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

“Going for security certifications like SOC 2 Type II is very important to them, in removing friction from the sales process when talking to their customers. They want assurances that the data they put into these services is secure.”. Proper configurations.

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Cloud Security Mining Financial Services 152

Data Protection Report

JUNE 2, 2021

On May 13, 2021, the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) announced a $1.8 Affiliate #1 experienced a second phishing incident on October 10, 2019, when a sales executive noticed his emailbox was sending suspicious emails that he had never written. NYDFS Cybersecurity Regulation.

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Cybersecurity Insurance Financial Services Phishing 70

HL Chronicle of Data Protection

JUNE 14, 2019

As the first broad-based state law on consumers’ personal data in the U.S., The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) has been described as groundbreaking, watershed, and unprecedented since its passage on June 28, 2018.

Privacy 40

Privacy GDPR Compliance Financial Services 40

Krebs on Security

MAY 3, 2019

The authentication weakness allowed bank customers to view account data for other customers, including account number, balance, phone numbers and email addresses. In late April 2019, Fiserv was sued by Bessemer System Federal Credit Union , a comparatively tiny financial institution with just $38 million in assets. Justice Department.

Security 177

Security Passwords Financial Services Sales 177

Information Matters

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

The phrase, “Data is the New Oil” is widely used but how are companies actually using data to create new and innovative business models? This post explores some of the ways data is being commercially exploited and explains what companies should do which are considering developing data-driven business models.

Artificial Intelligence 40

Artificial Intelligence Insurance Data collection Sales 40

Data Matters

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Cryptoassets are not documents of title, documentary intangibles or negotiable instruments, nor are they instruments under the UK Bills of Exchange Act nor goods under the UK Sale of Goods Act. The conclusions in the Legal Statement are useful to financial services firms and to those developing new applications for financial services.

Blockchain 60

Blockchain Financial Services Healthcare Marketing 60

Data Matters

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Cryptoassets are not documents of title, documentary intangibles or negotiable instruments, nor are they instruments under the UK Bills of Exchange Act nor goods under the UK Sale of Goods Act. The conclusions in the Legal Statement are useful to financial services firms and to those developing new applications for financial services.

Blockchain 60

Blockchain Financial Services Healthcare Marketing 60

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 26, 2021

The Verizon DBIR 2020 report indicates that financially motivated attacks against retailers have moved away from Point of Sale (POS) devices and controllers, towards web applications. As the infrastructure changes, the adversaries change along with it to take the easiest path to data. Big Data and EMV 3DS.

Security 143

Security Retail Authentication Big data 143

IBM Big Data Hub

AUGUST 9, 2023

A notable example of the importance of observability occurred in 2012 when a financial services firm lost $400+ million in less than an hour due to a software glitch. This incident emphasizes the criticality of observability in industries like financial systems, where seemingly small errors can have severe consequences.

Financial Services 64

Financial Services Sales Cloud Risk 64

HL Chronicle of Data Protection

APRIL 1, 2019

A few key topics that will be addressed are: How should you interpret key definitions like “personal information,” “sale,” “third party,” and “business” when operationalizing the CCPA? How far does a business have to go to implement a consumer’s opt-out of sales to third parties?

Sales 40

Sales Financial Services Privacy Compliance 40

Info Source

MAY 8, 2019

Attendees were briefed on the company’s innovation roadmap, vertical solutions, and new sales and marketing initiatives. Event highlights included a solutions expo with a series of interactive demos of real-world solutions for government, healthcare and financial services. Largest Solution Sale, 2018. Top Reseller, 2018.

Digital transformation 40

Digital transformation Sales Financial Services Marketing 40

The Last Watchdog

MARCH 1, 2019

Enterprises have dumped small fortunes into stocking their SOCs (security operations centers) with the best firewalls, anti-malware suites, intrusion detection, data loss prevention and sandbox detonators money can buy. Now toss in the fact that digital transformation is redoubling software development and data handling complexities.

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Digital transformation Marketing Analytics Risk 141

Data Matters

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

The CCPA was written and enacted with extraordinary speed, as legislators felt the need to move quickly in order to preempt a data privacy ballot initiative that had received enough signatures to be placed on California’s November ballot. Rules for Opt-Out of Sale. Code § 1798.185(a): Categories of Personal Information. Exceptions.

Sales 74

Sales Privacy Data Privacy Compliance 74

Data Protection Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

2020 could well be a year of data export turmoil – so brace yourself! Although the AG’s view was that the SCCs are valid, he suggested that those using them would need to examine the national security laws of the data importer’s jurisdiction to determine whether they can in fact comply with the terms of the SCCs.

Privacy 84

Privacy GDPR Data breaches Risk 84