Posts tagged with encryption
Retailers must balance data privacy with personalization
The retail industry is increasingly moving online. In its figures for 2017, the U.S. Census Bureau cited national online retail sales at $119 billion. Meanwhile, the Facebook privacy scandal has...
Can Governments be trusted to keep our data private?
Governments and state agencies everywhere would like us to believe that our personal data is safe in their hands. They say this information is vital. Without it, they claim, it would be impossible to...
What does built-in IIoT security look like?
What Does Built-in IIoT Security Look Like? Companies are racing to take advantage of new revenue opportunities, operational efficiencies and cost savings offered by the multitude of IP-connected...
Does more surveillance offer more protection?
The trend towards greater state surveillance has become even more obvious since Edward Snowden’s revelations. Governments frequently justify such invasions of their citizens’ privacy as...
Big data, big security questions
Half of enterprises today store sensitive information within big data environments (up from 31 percent in 2015). Influential agencies like ENISA warn there are considerable cyber risks from using big...
Mobile payments and security -- money walks, money talks
Once upon a time a mobile phone was something we used for talking. Today making a call ranks sixth on the list of most common uses for a mobile phone. Now there’s a new kid on the block that, in time,...
Internet of Things raises fresh security challenges for industry
For many years industries like oil and gas, electricity, agriculture and utilities have relied on operational communications infrastructure outside the main corporate network to collect data and...
Web of Spies
Ever since Edward Snowden revealed the extent of state-sponsored espionage over the Internet in 2013 businesses have been acutely aware of just how vulnerable data communications are to being...
Flaws in Industrial IoT Underline Importance of Secure Connectivity
According to the leading analyst firm Gartner Group over 50% of major new business processes and systems will incorporate some element of the Internet of Things (IoT) by the year 2020. The potential...
A Look at BYOD in 2016
Happy 2016! It’s a new year, and a time for fresh resolutions to improve your life over the next 12 months, whether that involves running a marathon, getting a new job or taking that trip abroad...