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SHARING INTEL: Why full ‘digital transformation’ requires locking down ‘machine identities’

The Last Watchdog

This is so in spite of the fact that machine identities are exploding in numbers and have come to saturate digital transformation. Machine identities are divvied out as digital certificates issued by Certificate Authorities (CAs) — vendors that diligently verify the authenticity of websites.

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MY TAKE: Why ‘basic research’ is so vital to bringing digital transformation to full fruition

The Last Watchdog

Basic research is the foundational theorizing and testing scientists pursue in order to advance their understanding of a phenomenon in the natural world, and, increasingly, in the digital realm. The public key is held by the individual user and the private key is held by the certified server storing the encrypted data.

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Signed, Secured, Delivered: Authenticating Digital Agreements in the Time of Web3

CyberSecurity Insiders

This is especially alarming for industries that conduct high-value transactions online, such as banking, healthcare, government, etc., To safeguard users’ identities and critical information, the government stepped in to enforce strict security measures. Authentication also reduces the overall likelihood of compromising information.

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Enhanced Privacy and Confidentiality using Thales and Google Workspace Client side-encryption

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Enhanced Privacy and Confidentiality using Thales and Google Workspace Client side-encryption. In a world of digital transformation, cloud providers and enterprises are looking for stronger cloud security and compliance. Google Workspace Client-side encryption. Mon, 06/14/2021 - 06:59. Benefits of the joint solution.

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MY TAKE: ‘Digital trust’ has a huge role to play mitigating cybersecurity threats, going forward

The Last Watchdog

Modern digital systems simply could not exist without trusted operations, processes and connections. They require integrity, authentication, trusted identity and encryption. Today we’re in the throes of digital transformation. Related: Leveraging PKI to advance electronic signatures. Failure is not an option.

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NEW TECH: DigiCert Document Signing Manager leverages PKI to advance electronic signatures

The Last Watchdog

And PKI , of course, is the behind-the-scenes authentication and encryption framework on which the Internet is built. As digital transformation has quickened, it has become clear that electronic signatures are destined to become even more pervasively used to conduct business remotely. Achieving high assurance.

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

The Last Watchdog

First, the identities of any two digital entities – a sensor and a control server, for instance, or even a microservice and a container — must be authenticated, and, second, the data exchanged between any two such digital instances must be encrypted. Nelson: The Japanese government, the U.K.,

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