Many organizations have multiple IAM schemes that they forget about when it comes to a robust compliance framework such as PCI DSS. There are, at minimum, two schemes that need to be reviewed, but consider if you have more from this potential, and probably incomplete, list: Bottom line, in whatever fashion someone or something validates their authorization to use the device, service, or application, that authorization must be mapped to the role and privileges afforded to that actor.
In 1999, a far-fetched movie about a dystopia run by intelligent machines captured our imaginations (and to this day, remains my favorite film). Twenty-four years later, the line between fact and fiction has all but vanished and the blockbuster hits much differently. Are we entering the Matrix? Are we already in it? Can anyone be sure?
In security, there are always tensions; the balancing act between security, convenience, and functionality. While these three, often competing interests cause many people to become frustrated, there are some simple steps that can ease the security struggle.
OCR is the process of using technology to read characters from printed or handwritten text included inside digital images of actual documents, such scanned paper documents (optical character recognition). OCR’s primary function is to read a document’s text and convert the characters into code that may be used for data processing. Another name for optical character recognition is text recognition (OCR).
Ask a cybersecurity professional what keeps them up at night and you’ll get answers about insufficient staffing, IT complexity or constant attacks on their business. Quantum computing isn’t likely to make the list. Yet as technological change accelerates, real quantum risks are coming into view. Now is the time to prepare corporate IT systems for the “death” of classic cryptography to safeguard data and privacy in the future.
