Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. (Reuters) — Mastercard said on Monday it had agreed to buy digital identity verification company Ekata in a deal valued at $850 million, as the global payments processor bets on a boom in demand for companies […]
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Health care API adoption is slowed by security concerns and skills gap
Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. APIs may be the cornerstone of a digital transformation strategy, but the health care industry has not really benefited from widespread API adoption because of concerns over interoperability, patient data exchange, and infrastructure challenges, according to […]
U.S. banks deploy visual AI tools to monitor customers and workers
Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. (Reuters) — Several U.S. banks have started deploying camera software that can analyze customer preferences, monitor workers and spot people sleeping near ATMs, even as they remain wary about possible backlash over increased surveillance, more than […]
How the FBI Finally Got Into the San Bernardino Shooter’s iPhone
As the Biden administration moves on an ever-growing list of policy initiatives, the White House issued sanctions this week for a slate of Russian misdeeds, including interference in the 2020 election, the poisoning of dissident Aleksey Navalny, and the SolarWinds hacking spree that swept United States government agencies and many […]
The SASE wave: Why cloud-native edge security is gathering huge momentum
Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), commonly pronounced “sassy,” is less than two years old and is already moving the needle when it comes to forging a new market. SASE brings network and security capabilities to the […]
Enterprise security attackers are one password away from your worst day – TechCrunch
It’s all about the credentials Ralph Pisani is president at Exabeam and has 20 years of experience in sales and channel and business development at organizations like Imperva and SecureComputing (acquired by McAfee). If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different […]
US Sanctions on Russia Rewrite Cyberespionage’s Rules
Some cyberpolicy critics see Biden’s sanctions for SolarWinds spying in more cynical terms: an incoherent, knee-jerk response designed to satisfy anyone who’d accuse the administration of being soft on Russia. “This is not an attempt to correct Russia’s behavior,” says Dmitri Alperovitch, former CTO of security firm CrowdStrike and the […]
Kryon throws down the gauntlet for better RPA governance
Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. Robotic process automation (RPA), which mimics human activity and automates mundane tasks, is all the rage. But privacy and governance concerns persist. Recognizing these challenges, Kryon recently became the first RPA vendor to earn ISO 27701 […]
The FBI Takes a Drastic Step to Fight China’s Hacking Spree
The agency’s approach to protecting vulnerable victims of the recent Hafnium attack manages to be at once controversial and refreshingly restrained. Source
The Biggest Security Threats to the US Are the Hardest to Define
It’s been two years since the heads of the top US intelligence agencies last came to Congress for an update on global threats; they skipped 2020 amid tensions with former president Donald Trump. In the Biden administration, though, the public hearing was back on Wednesday. Their message: With sprawling crises […]