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February 28, 2017

CEN Member Chat: Blockchain Revealed

Digital Safety, Privacy & Cybersecurity
Constellation Research VP Principal Analyst, lt;stronggt;lt;a href=quot;/users/steve-wilsonquot;gt;Steve Wilsonlt;/agt;lt;/stronggt;, clarifies the myths and truths about blockcha...
Steve Wilson
Insight News
February 23, 2017

IBM Launches Commercial Blockchain Tech for Private Equity Firms

Tech Optimization
Financial services lie at the heart of use cases for blockchain, and IBM is now addressing one subset of that industry—private equity firms—with a new, specialized commercial dep...
Chris Kanaracus
Steve Wilson
Insight News
February 22, 2017

Adobe Launches Open Standard-Based Digital Signatures

Matrix Commerce
Adobe will soon roll out digital signature capabilities based on an open standard it worked on as part of the Cloud Signature Consortium. The vendor says this is an industry fi...
Chris Kanaracus
R "Ray" Wang
Insight News
February 16, 2017

European Cloud Providers Agree On Customer Data 'Code of Conduct'

Digital Safety, Privacy & Cybersecurity
A European industry group composed of cloud infrastructure providers has released a 41-page "code of conduct" that seeks to assure customers their data is being prote...
Chris Kanaracus
Insight News
February 10, 2017

AT&T, IBM, Symantec and Others Form Cybersecurity Alliance for IoT

Digital Safety, Privacy & Cybersecurity
While there's a long way to go, the tech industry continues to coalesce around IoT security. In the latest instance, some of the biggest names in networking and security are fo...
Chris Kanaracus
Insight News
February 08, 2017

Microsoft Offers Patent Troll Protection for Azure Customers

Tech Optimization
Competition in the IaaS (infrastructure as a service) and PaaS (platform as a service) markets is getting fiercer all the time, but now Microsoft has come up with an additional...
Chris Kanaracus
Analyst Blog
January 30, 2017

Blockchain plain and simple

Matrix Commerce
lt;pgt;Here's blockchain explained, in 500 words, with no graphics, and no analogies. lt;/pgt; ...
Steve Wilson
Insight News
January 26, 2017

Expect Renewed Push for Encryption Backdoors from Trump Administration

Digital Safety, Privacy & Cybersecurity
It seems highly likely that the Trump administration will push for policies forcing tech companies to create cryptographic backdoors in the name of helping law enforcement, a hig...
Chris Kanaracus
Steve Wilson
Insight News
January 17, 2017

Google Starts 2017 With Emphasis on Cloud Security

Tech Optimization
How many data breaches were reported in 2016? Even if you're under the impression it was a lot, the number may still surprise you: Nearly 3,000, encompassing 2.2 billion records,...
Chris Kanaracus
Steve Wilson
Insight News
January 13, 2017

Hackable Pacemakers Point to Lagging Security Standards in IoT

Tech Optimization
A number of implantable cardiac devices made by St. Jude Medical had several vulnerabilities that hackers could have used to harm patients, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration'...
Chris Kanaracus
Steve Wilson
Insight News
January 12, 2017

FTC Sues D-Link Over Insecure Connected Devices: Why It's a Good Thing

Digital Safety, Privacy & Cybersecurity
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has slapped D-Link, maker of IP cameras, routers and smart home equipment with a lawsuit, sayng the company's products were insecure and put cus...
Steve Wilson
Chris Kanaracus