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AI & the enterprise: protect your data, protect your enterprise value

CIO

In 2018, I wrote an article asking, “Will your company be valued by its price-to-data ratio?” The premise was that enterprises needed to secure their critical data more stringently in the wake of data hacks and emerging AI processes. This is an important element in regulatory compliance and data quality.

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Dubai-based accounting and financial compliance startup, Wafeq, raises $3M

TechCrunch

The United Arabs Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia became the first member states to adopt the treaty in 2018, and its implementation meant that for the first time businesses in these territories were required to file VAT returns periodically. Wafeq says its powering accounting and financial compliance for SMEs.

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Window Snyder’s new startup Thistle Technologies raises $2.5M seed to secure IoT devices

TechCrunch

The Internet of Things has a security problem. The past decade has seen wave after wave of new internet-connected devices, from sensors through to webcams and smart home tech, often manufactured in bulk but with little — if any — consideration to security. Security veteran Window Snyder thinks there is a better way.

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Primer: The next act for security theater

The Parallax

The day after DefCon concluded this year, a prominent cybersecurity researcher and hacker known as the brain behind hacks featured on hit TV show Mr. Robot offered his resignation as the head of its security operations. Why are Androids less secure than iPhones? Security theater. Why current funding to secure U.S.

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Akeyless secures a cash infusion to help companies manage their passwords, certificates and keys

TechCrunch

Back in 2018, Refael Angel, a former security software engineer at Intuit, had an idea for a new approach to protect encryption keys — the random string of bits created to scramble and unscramble data — on the cloud. GitGuardian estimates that app security engineers on average have to handle over 3,400 secrets occurrences.

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Context Conversations preview: Medsec with Jacki Monson and Josh Corman

The Parallax

Earlier this month at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas, two cybersecurity researchers presented work showing how a hacker could deliver a potentially lethal shock through a Medtronic pacemaker by exploiting a vulnerability in its software. Improving MedTech cybersecurity requires this open dialogue.

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Data security and privacy: The foundation of customer trust

CIO

Read on to learn more about the challenges of data security and privacy amid the pursuit of innovation, and how the right customer experience platform empowers this innovation without risking business disruption. A fraudster beats out Knowledge-based Authentication (KBA) to illegally obtain access to a customer’s account.