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Tag: Cybersecurity
We have written about the Cybersecurity space off and on since 2017 and the one constant over that period is that corporations (and many individuals), do not give cybersecurity enough thought. For example, I do like the fact that many companies have adopted Apple Pay, G-Pay, Samsung Pay and the like as paying with these … Continue reading Cybersecurity: AI Is A Leverage Point, However..
Here is our follow-up to our recent article Facebook Will Be Next. We have stated on a number of occasions that social media companies such as Meta/Facebook and Twitter overstate the number of active users given that the active user metric is a self-reported figure and given that no outside firm has the ability to … Continue reading Facebook and The Blockchain
16 months ago we told you that SolarWinds (ticker: SWI) would not recover from the cyberattack levied against it that allowed cybercriminals to use infected SolarWinds software to view the source code of hundreds if not thousands of SolarWinds' corporate customers. SWI shares have yet to recover from what was at the time (December 18th … Continue reading SolarWinds Fallout Is Just Beginning
Our recent Blockchain article touched on the superior digital security offered by Blockchain/ Distributed Ledger Technologies ("DLT"). Over time we anticipate that legacy payment systems, workflow software and general transaction processing systems will be replaced by dedicated blockchain/ DLT networks. The Internet in its present form is riddled with cybersecurity risks. The current crop of … Continue reading Blockchain and Cybersecurity
We have written numerous articles about the risks associated with legacy technologies from a cybersecurity perspective. It seems Colonial Pipeline got off easy in its recent ransomware cyberattack. The economic and national security impact would have been significant if an enemy state decided to corrupt Colonial's systems in such a manner so as to prevent … Continue reading The Colonial Pipeline Cyberattack Exposes A Significant Economic and National Security Risk
Infrastructure Technology and CyberSecurity are among the Tech sectors that will benefit from increased consumer spending in the coming months. We recently wrote about elevated Personal Income levels due to multiple rounds of fiscal handouts. Consumers will spend this money now that the warm weather is here. Technology companies outside of "Consumer Tech" will benefit … Continue reading Infrastructure Tech and CyberSecurity Will Benefit From Consumer Spending
Coinbase (tkr: COIN) prices today and company co-founder Brian Armstrong made the point that regulation and cybersecurity are two key threats to the crypto industry. We believe that the crypto industry will spearhead cybersecurity innovations that will eventually be adopted by many consumers and enterprises. Tickers mentioned: COIN, MSFT, ORCL, PYPL, SAP, SQ, TYL When … Continue reading Crypto To Drive Next-Gen Security
Much the way Marketers use technology to assemble personal profiles from disparate sources, sophisticated hackers are sourcing personal data from a variety of sources, including leveraging information collected in previous cyberbreaches. If early reports are correct the massive cyberbreach executed against Microsoft Exchange leveraged PII data captured in earlier cyberbreaches unrelated to Microsoft as well … Continue reading Hackers Are Taking A Page From Marketers’ Playbooks
"Be careful with me, I'm fragile. I'm easily broken." So go the lyrics to "Trip My Wire", but those words could just as easily describe the frail legacy technology infrastructure that underpins so many commercial processes from home and auto titling to financial trading systems, digital health records, government databases, customer databases and so on. … Continue reading A Better Tripwire Is Not The Answer
With the Biden's Administration's forthcoming $1.9 Trillion in transfer payments will come a tidal wave of personal data theft & fraud. We experienced this once already with the Trump transfer payments of 2020. A Public-Private Partnership ("PPP"), that invests in Technology infrastructure across key industries would do much to mitigate these risks while bolstering the … Continue reading A Tidal Wave of Personal Data Theft & Fraud Is Coming This Year
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