Organizations today are embracing cloud-native technologies to increase time-to-market, scalability and cost savings. A big part of the cloud-native transition is moving legacy systems and architectures to the cloud. With this comes both complexity and new risks because modern applications are often composed of dozens of microservices, housed in containers and hosted on immutable, dynamically scaling platforms like Kubernetes.
With the growing risk of identity-driven breaches, as seen in recent ransomware and supply chain attacks, businesses are starting to appreciate the need for identity security. As they assess how best to strengthen identity protection, there is often an urge to settle for security features or modules included in enterprise bundles from the same vendor providing their identity or identity and access management (IAM) layer.
The Union Budget 2022 has been primarily focused on creating a digitally growing economy. The government has started prioritizing its expenditure on building a faster and more efficient environment for its consumers. The purpose of introducing virtual assets is to boost the digital economy. The introduction of legal regulations has now led the government to create a secure platform for these transactions to flow through effectively.
Did you know that the household data of 123 million Americans were recently stolen from Alteryx’s Amazon cloud servers in a single cyberattack? But the blame for this cannot fairly be laid at the feet of Jeff Bezos. No – the origin of this theft, and many other cybersecurity crimes began long before this data was uploaded to any cloud server. In another high-level cyberattack, financial data on 47,000 Americans was exposed on an S3 bucket from the US National Credit Federation in 2017.
Did you know that the household data of 123 million Americans were recently stolen from Alteryx’s Amazon cloud servers in a single cyberattack? But the blame for this cannot fairly be laid at the feet of Jeff Bezos. No – the origin of this theft, and many other cybersecurity crimes began long before this data was uploaded to any cloud server. In another high-level cyberattack, financial data on 47,000 Americans was exposed on an S3 bucket from the US National Credit Federation in 2017.
Concepts like AI-based video editing and augmented video processing are not just buzzwords anymore. Fraudsters now have easy access to plug-and-play products that enable them to use the power of deep learning and advanced AI to anonymize, mask, and alter images and videos. These spoofs also known as presentation attacks include printed photos, cutout masks, digital and video replay attacks, and 3D masks.
As India embraces the digital transformation and aligns with post pandemic lifestyle, working from home, shopping online, and managing money digitally has conveniently become a routine for us. This quick shift in the industry wouldn’t have been possible without quick regulatory advancements by government. Giving convenience a priority, critical functions like opening a bank account, lending a loan, large transactions, are now possible on fingertips.
The past two years have sure made everyone rethink and reimagine the way businesses must run. These years have been marked by resilience and reinvention. And, for many digital and digitally enabled startups, it’s been a year of remarkable growth. Almost all startups restructured their companies and significantly reduced costs. Many had to explore new distribution channels or new customer segments. Omnichannel consumer brands shifted completely online.
Five worthy reads is a regular column on five noteworthy items we have discovered while researching trending and timeless topics. This week, we explore decentralized identity, aka self-sovereign identity.
