Image source: Freepik This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. As eCommerce grows, there are more issues concerning payments and security. Customers still don’t enjoy a smooth user experience, can’t access fraud-free transactions, and there are still many declined transactions. Online shopping still lacks a seamless experience due to the risks of storing and handling sensitive account data.

To uncover how to build the best data strategy for your business, we chat with Adam Ryan, Calligo’s Chief Data Officer for Data Strategy on what to do, what to avoid – and everything else in between…

Today, connected vehicles are proliferating, smart cities are translating from vision to reality, and cloud-based connectivity services are increasing. Advanced connectivity solutions like 5G, cloud-based services and automations, and personalized experiences are redefining in-vehicle experiences. In addition, the growth of an intelligent Edge, smart infrastructure, and the Internet of Things are pushing the boundaries of the connected car.

Passwords are the first line of defence for protecting your devices and systems against improper access and malicious actors. They are used across almost all digital systems including software, cloud and infrastructure. Therefore implementing effective password management is one of the simplest ways of improving your cyber defences. And the best part? It costs next to nothing to have in place.

SecurityScorecard’s own Ondrej Krehel talks with News 12 in New York about how to protect yourself from what might be the most surreal spam number of all—your own. Most of us are used to getting spam texts: You’ve paid your bill, click this link for a free gift! You’ve won the sweepstakes, click here to redeem! It’s no surprise that nothing good comes from clicking those links.

You probably know the story of “the boy who cried ‘Wolf!’” In the ancient fable, villagers tire of a shepherd’s false alarms, and stop paying attention to them. That’s a lesson for software security teams, not just schoolchildren. Raising concerns about threats that turn out to be flimsy or false erodes the trust that binds your department, and even the faith your customers have in you.

During application development, we often need to persist complex data (like objects) for use in different runtimes. However, maintaining persistence within complex data structures and objects is far from straightforward. In Python, you can use the built-in pickle library to handle this process. Pickle can serialize a Python object into a flat byte stream (pickling) as well as transform a byte stream back into a Python object (unpickling).

Many businesses use virtual private networks (VPNs) to provide secure remote access to their systems, but this has increasingly become a liability as more people switch to remote work. The greater demands placed on VPNs to offer safe access can expose organizations and employees to security vulnerabilities. In order to better protect their data and systems, organizations may need to seek alternatives to VPNs.

Michael Fey, VP of Engineering at 1Password, recently interviewed Jeremiah Peschka, staff software developer at Stack Overflow, on our Random But Memorable podcast.

The overnight move to remote and hybrid work models instantly created a more complex infrastructure for many organizations as they shifted their workers from corporate offices to their homes. The threat surface expanded exponentially as devices moved off-prem and into potentially unsecured environments and grew again as workers added their own devices to the mix.