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It is always a challenging effort to anticipate the direction data privacy is going. There is an ever-growing need for companies to future-proof data privacy and safeguard sensitive information. With regulations like the General Data Protection Regulation ( GDPR ) impacting full force, companies now better protect sensitive data and access consent. It is almost impossible to predict how networks will handle data in the future. Despite this, businesses should continue to create reliable, available, and secure networks ready to deal with unpredictable data demands. 2020: A Year of Major Cyberattack Waves With the change to a “new normal,” 2020 became the year of significant cyberattacks as companies struggled to protect their data. Some even referred to it as a “ cyber pandemic, ” echoing the coronavirus pandemic around us. There were many breaches and cyberattacks in 2020, as well as ransomware attacks. In fact, 80 percent of firms saw an increase in cyberattacks. 2020 was one o...

Five Ways to Future-Proof Your Data Privacy It is always a challenging effort to anticipate the direction data privacy is going. There is an ever-growing need for companies to future-proof data privacy and safeguard sensitive information. With regulations like the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) impacting full force, companies now better protect sensitive data and access consent. It is almost impossible to predict how networks… View On WordPress https://64.media.tumblr.com/5fb8d75eb72b900c3670a90a30a2cb8e/2ee29514d7ec2fde-66/s640x960/81d0f0ed0a5f4a6a99a9d6cf57e175cd1cb75b5f.jpg https://guptadeepakcom.tumblr.com/post/669307506192973824

Single Sign-On (SSO) refers to the authentication process that allows consumers to access multiple applications with a single login credential and an active login session. The following are the two examples of the Single Sign-On environments: - Consumers access multiple applications of the same provider; they don’t need to create and remember separate credentials for each application; they log in once and access various applications of that provider. Example: Google, Youtube, Gmail, etc. - Employees access numerous applications daily; they don’t need to create and remember separate credentials for each application; they can log in once and access various applications used in the organization. Example: HR Portal, Resource Portal, Organizational Account, etc. Types of SSO: - Web/Mobile SSO - Federated SSO Read more about SSO (Single Sign-on): https://bit.ly/3xxr6nu by Deepak Gupta http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png https://guptadeepakcom.tumblr.com/post/669172915259965440

A hybrid cloud is a cloud computing environment that uses a mix of on-premises, private cloud, and third-party, public cloud services with orchestration between these platforms. This typically involves a connection from an on-premises data center to a public cloud. The connection also can involve other private assets, including edge devices or other clouds. Top trends of 2021/2022 in the hybrid cloud market Businesses want platforms that enable Artificial intelligence (AI) and automation This is one of the current trends in the hybrid cloud computing market today. The cloud service providers have to develop infrastructure that accommodates these new developments in technology. The use of AI and machine learning technologies is increasingly becoming popular making it an essential means through which the idea of hybrid cloud computing to be more effective. Different types of cloud computing have various advantages and disadvantages that need to be managed effectively for them to ac...

Current Hybrid Cloud Computing Trends A hybrid cloud is a cloud computing environment that uses a mix of on-premises, private cloud, and third-party, public cloud services with orchestration between these platforms. This typically involves a connection from an on-premises data center to a public cloud. The connection also can involve other private assets, including edge devices or other clouds. Top trends of 2021/2022 in the hybrid… View On WordPress https://64.media.tumblr.com/43f6748bbde1ef1ad4f549e856ff7e07/8c4b86b060631fd5-fc/s640x960/60c62fa95338d24be6e61e3a8a975d1be60defd8.jpg https://guptadeepakcom.tumblr.com/post/668944504045322240

For many years, we’ve heard: “The death of passwords is nigh!” Now, after years of watching the decline, we shouldn’t be surprised that everyone is proclaiming: “Passwords are dead!” The real question is: What have you done to prepare for a passwordless future? Before you answer, here’s a tidbit of history. Did you know that digital passwords have been failing almost since they were invented? One of the earliest examples of this dates back to the 1960s when MIT students began using passwords to log into a pioneering new computer. Time on that shared computer was rationed at MIT. Each user was allotted only a few hours per week. That is until one student located the file storing all the passwords. This wily student then began using multiple accounts to get all the usage time he wanted! Fast forward to several decades later. Unsurprisingly, with the proliferation of online passwords, the issues produced by their use—and misuse—have only multiplied. Here are the most common pa...

The modern digital landscape has offered new horizons and capabilities to organizations embarking on a journey to unleash the next level of innovation and agility. Whether we incorporate smart computing or leverage powerful networking technologies, every aspect has sweetened the kitty to yield better results by delivering a flawless user experience. However, businesses should now gear up to reap the next phase of efficiency, agility, and innovation through 5G edge networks since renowned manufacturers like Apple and Samsung have already jumped on the 5G bandwagon. Moreover, the estimates from this year’s Ericsson Mobility report reveal that the total number of 5G subscriptions worldwide would reach 580 million this year, which is almost double from 2020. So does it mean that consumers are already expecting vendors to deliver up-to-snuff experiences in the coming months since modern apps and systems are becoming data gourmands? Undeniably, yes! Since the conventional 4G-LTE coup...

How CXOs Can Leverage 5G Edge Networks The modern digital landscape has offered new horizons and capabilities to organizations embarking on a journey to unleash the next level of innovation and agility. Whether we incorporate smart computing or leverage powerful networking technologies, every aspect has sweetened the kitty to yield better results by delivering a flawless user experience. However, businesses should now gear up to reap… View On WordPress https://64.media.tumblr.com/de29eed95d5be6919feeafe0f8fe6d62/c5ef3d0c4c1f55b4-81/s640x960/97fde0e8e875d1a746946eeeafab2a52b2380d14.jpg https://guptadeepakcom.tumblr.com/post/668595958167273472

The two-factor (2FA) or multi-factor authentication (MFA) method uses two or more factors to authenticate a user. - Step-Up Authentication - Adaptive Authentication What are some of the popular types of 2FA or MFA used for Step-Up and Adaptive Authentication: 1. Security Key / Hardware Token 2. OTP (SMS or Voice) 3. Device 4. SMS 5. Biometric 6. Authenticator App / Soft Token 7. Push Notifications Read the whole article with details: https://bit.ly/3FHM1Hz by Deepak Gupta http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png https://guptadeepakcom.tumblr.com/post/668538714064060416

For companies to take advantage of the mobile and digitally dynamic customer base that expects a customized and streamlined experience, digital advancement is incredibly vital. One of the undeniable necessities of business enterprises to support all the procedures is ensuring that excellent customer data management exists. It could be quite lucrative for marketers to have accurate customer data. But if the venture doesn’t have the important assets to manage such a high volume of data, it can prove to be impossible for the enterprise to acquire and evaluate the data. Today, business endeavours have ample of customer data which, if utilized correctly, can assist the enterprise in serving individual clients successfully. Business ventures concentrating on data first technique can altogether increase auxiliary income, cut expenses and accomplish faithfulness from their top customers. But unfortunately, businesses face myriads of challenges in this process. Five most prominent ones are l...

Top Five Customer Data Management And Security Challenges For companies to take advantage of the mobile and digitally dynamic customer base that expects a customized and streamlined experience, digital advancement is incredibly vital. One of the undeniable necessities of business enterprises to support all the procedures is ensuring that excellent customer data management exists. It could be quite lucrative for marketers to have accurate customer data.… View On WordPress https://64.media.tumblr.com/3fb7d40a1f3ba9f0991646d358af4714/28fdb90bc61de7e8-6c/s640x960/1a80ab2ad77592a69a0e721ced4340bb44e390bf.jpg https://guptadeepakcom.tumblr.com/post/668414398132535296

Modern businesses are becoming ever more reliant on digital data and electronic activities, and as a result, meet rigorous data privacy compliance hurdles and information security regulations. Also, with companies increasingly under threat of online cyber-attacks and malicious insiders, enterprise applications and interfaces are now reliant on using digital credentials to manage how users and companies access sensitive information and crucial system resources. This is why businesses rely on several data authentication systems to guard their key customer and enterprise data. However, out of all different authentication systems, PKIs (Public Key Infrastructure) ensure the trustworthiness of identity credentials. Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) is not a new concept and neither is its cloud strategy. PKI is principally about managing online identities that facilitate ways to safeguard data and understand the user identity when administering data over untrusted interfaces. Role of PKI i...

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Hijacking is one of the many famous attacks hackers deploy to interfere with content delivery networks (CDNs). Hackers may also be capable of interfering with cloud hosting providers. Recently, almost all major cloud service providers like Google, Amazon and GoDaddy have become victims of BGP Hijacking. How does a BGP function? Before getting into the depth of how BGP hijacking occurs, it is important to delve into BGP. BGP is essentially a routing protocol that can connect several networks. This congregation of networks is known as an Autonomous System (AS). A routing protocol is used to transfer information or data packets across several networks. Typically, an AS consists of ISP providers, large tech enterprises, or in some cases, networks that belong to governments. Every AS receives a unique number responsible for controlling a specific set of IP ranges or spaces known as prefixes. Every AS displays the list of IP addresses they control and possi...

The Rise of BGP Hijacking and Why You Need a Response Plan Immediately Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Hijacking is one of the many famous attacks hackers deploy to interfere with content delivery networks (CDNs). Hackers may also be capable of interfering with cloud hosting providers. Recently, almost all major cloud service providers like Google, Amazon and GoDaddy have become victims of BGP Hijacking. How does a BGP function? Before getting into the depth of how… View On WordPress https://64.media.tumblr.com/dfdc9f458fa8a74184750cf80931bbea/93d69bb372cd357b-0b/s640x960/c4e106ccb29923e5111ea34be5cbebcbb6d04d22.jpg https://guptadeepakcom.tumblr.com/post/668122196818984960

Almost every activity on the Internet requires that you fill in your email to gain access as most of the websites you visit ask for your email addresses for different activities - from accessing a website to registering for a course or event to requesting a free download of digital products such as e-books. Also, your email is linked to several online platforms that you use such as social networking platforms, music, and movie streaming platforms, e-learning platforms, and e-commerce platforms amongst others. Basically, this is a strategy used mostly by brands offering digital products and services to build up their data banks and give them the opportunity to contact you. Most times, they go ahead to spam your inbox. Quite frustrating! The more you give out your email address on the Internet, the more issues of data protection, leak, and abuse arise. This has made it necessary for individuals to take up the responsibility of protecting their data and at the same time protect themse...

Future of Emails: Real or Masked Emails Almost every activity on the Internet requires that you fill in your email to gain access as most of the websites you visit ask for your email addresses for different activities – from accessing a website to registering for a course or event to requesting a free download of digital products such as e-books. Also, your email is linked to several online platforms that you use such as social… View On WordPress https://64.media.tumblr.com/35a03688c1931f07b5127ee8fd55b510/c4ba8d60f66c0a63-ab/s640x960/805d4f7500053bc1f41a60aec3712269cb08b666.jpg https://guptadeepakcom.tumblr.com/post/667943839114379264

The fundamental authentication methods: - Password-Based Authentication 1. Email/Username and Password Login 2. Phone and Password Login - Social Authentication - Passwordless Authentication / Instant Login - Barcode Authentication - Biometric Authentication 1. Fingerprint Authentication 2. Face Recognition 3. Retina Scan - Card Swipe Authentication Read the complete article: https://bit.ly/3ccQ0yZ by Deepak Gupta http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png https://guptadeepakcom.tumblr.com/post/667904562683871232

A truly personalised consumer experience can only be provided when sufficient data is available to analyse consumer behaviour. Marketing today has become more personalised, contextualised, and dynamic. Acquiring data is the starting point—improved technology and algorithms have made it possible for companies to collect the same. Companies work under the misconception that personalisation and privacy are conflicting efforts and do not believe that it can be interdependent. It is actually a positive-sum gain from cooperation. Research shows that 60% of consumers are frustrated with the brands’ inability to predict their needs and think they aren’t doing an adequate job using personalisation. Companies find it challenging to optimise marketing personalisation with increasing privacy issues related to attaining granular consumer data. On the one hand, consumers are expecting to be recognised and their experiences personalised, on the other hand, consumers are concerned about data privac...

A truly personalised consumer experience can only be provided when sufficient data is available to analyse consumer behaviour. Marketing today has become more personalised, contextualised, and dynamic. Acquiring data is the starting point—improved technology and algorithms have made it possible for companies to collect the same. Companies work under the misconception that personalisation and… View On WordPress https://64.media.tumblr.com/ec09c2e9cc8b5b6d32617f90cbb53e16/f8809ee01f1a4f55-d2/s640x960/8b239f991a7984f5968dbdf7d78d6ca6433c4687.jpg https://guptadeepakcom.tumblr.com/post/667779972192239616

Every transaction you make; every email you communicate—hackers are watching you. Findings from the Arcserve report confirm that 70% of consumers do not trust businesses with their personal information. They aren’t much hopeful about corporate cybersecurity standards either and feel that organizations aren’t doing much to win back their trust. 2020 has been one of the most dangerous periods in history for cybercrime . Whilst countries are still struggling to get past COVID-19 , how do you ensure a cyber secure post-pandemic world with credibility? Protecting against cybercrime is like preventing theft. You can’t just leave your doors open. At the same time, you can’t spend all of your time locked inside either. There are a lot of other tricks businesses can impose to prevent theft and stay safe. Let’s hash them out. Figure out your attack surface (and reduce it!). You know what we say -‘preparation is 90% of the game’. If you don’t know your attack surface, how can you protect i...

Top 5 Tricks To Repel Cyber Criminals From Attacking Your Enterprise Every transaction you make; every email you communicate—hackers are watching you. Findings from the Arcserve report confirm that 70% of consumers do not trust businesseswith their personal information. They aren't much hopeful about corporate cybersecurity standards either and feel that organizations aren't doing much to win back their trust. 2020 has been one of the most dangerous… View On WordPress https://64.media.tumblr.com/b028ab3beb0b54711d09f423de26d265/490717c3019122c0-ca/s640x960/e18a08a40385d784029fa55f05a151b3b5c34166.jpg https://guptadeepakcom.tumblr.com/post/667676541280452608

The IT industry has come to the forefront as homes have been transformed into workspaces due to Covid-19 lockdowns. The skyrocketing need for digitalisation has kept revenue flowing in for tech businesses. Common sense would say that as the source for upgrades, IT players would be at the top of their game when it comes to meeting problem areas. But let’s have a look at how these sectors are actually faring. In data and telecoms, there are issues with cash flow, as traditional revenue segments suffer. However, with large swathes of the population in isolation, Internet usage has shot up. This change in consumer behaviour has bolstered revenue opportunities for telecom companies. However, increased Internet use has also created pressure on existing network infrastructure, causing dips in connection rates and call quality (both audio and video). To be able to serve new users without overloading servers, apps may temporarily disable certain features. For example, Google Pay had briefl...