According to Forgerock, the financial services industry suffered $6.2 billion in damage from cyberattacks in Q1 2019, up from $8 million in Q1 2018 — a 77,400 percent increase. HSBC, JP Morgan and PayPal are just a few of the financial institutions that have experienced data breaches. Even less established…
Read MoreLoyalty and fraud. Not a nice pairing. Loyalty is great for business, fraud taxes it with ongoing losses. Yet the two have become inseparable in the past two decades, with fraudsters banking on loyalty points, miles and rewards and using them for their own profit. Loyalty programs can be costly…
Read MoreNetwork segmentation is a concept that dates back to the start of enterprise IT systems. The simplest demonstration of this is separating application and infrastructure components with a firewall. This concept is now a routine part of building data centers and application architectures. In fact, it’s nearly impossible to find…
Read MoreWhile sitting in metaphysics class one afternoon, I asked my philosophy professor if Frankenstein’s monster is really a monster if he is just the sum of other people’s parts. He gave no reply to this question, only laughed. This memory struck me when I was thinking about a topic that…
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