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MY TAKE: Businesses gravitate to ‘passwordless’ authentication — widespread consumer use up next

The Last Watchdog

This is one giant leap towards getting rid of passwords entirely. Excising passwords as the security linchpin to digital services is long, long overdue. Password abuse at scale arose shortly after the decision got made in the 1990s to make shared secrets the basis for securing digital connections.

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

The Last Watchdog

It is incumbent upon enterprises plunging forward with digital transformation to embed security and emphasize cyber hygiene – much more so than they generally do today. is going live with their new rules in 2020, and the state of California has just passed IoT security regulation that talks about password management and labelling.

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SHARED INTEL: Study shows mismanagement of ‘machine identities’ triggers $52 billion in losses

The Last Watchdog

In one sense, digital transformation is all about machines. Here are excerpts, edited for clarity and length: LW: Can you frame the top challenges businesses face as digital transformation accelerates? Hudson: The world as we once knew it is becoming digitalized. Everything.

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Establishing trust in mobile payments

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

At the start of the year, Thales released the findings of its latest annual global Data Threat Report which found that, as businesses everywhere undergo a form of digital transformation, the risk of data breaches has reached an all-time high.

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MY TAKE: Why it’s now crucial to preserve PKI, digital certificates as the core of Internet security

The Last Watchdog

As digital transformation accelerates, business leaders and even individual consumers are going to have to familiarize themselves with PKI and proactively participate in preserving it. They need to be extremely careful about checking the authenticity of a site when providing personal information, passwords or payment information.”

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Fujitsu Introduces fi-7300NX, the New Image Scanner for Flexible Distributed Capture

Info Source

Sunnyvale, CA, September 04, 2018 Fujitsu , the world’s leading scanner manufacturer, today announced the launch of the fi-7300NX , an innovative image scanner that connects directly to client systems, as the newest image scanner solution for business use in the age of digital transformation.

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Digital Enterprises: Built on Modern MDM

Reltio

Every touch point, every click, every digital exhaust is relevant insight, which must be leveraged to get that attention. Digital Transformation is also on the mind of Scott Taylor , Data Whisperer & Principal Consultant, MetaMeta Consulting. Of these, master data is the data in-charge!

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