News tagged: Data Security

31 January, 2022

Big comms opportunities emerge from industry struggles

There has been some big industry shake-up news in the past week. Business technology journalist, Antony Savvas evaluates the potential fall-out.

28 June, 2021

Nokia, Beaqon advance digital transformation of Singapore’s Changi airport with optical LAN

Nokia announced that with solution integrator, Beaqon Pte Ltd, it will deploy Nokia´s passive optical local area network (POL) solution at Changi Airport, Singapore. The new network will support existing operations and enable new services to advance Changi Airport’s digital transformation.

30 December, 2020

HelpSystems acquires Vera to broaden data security portfolio

HelpSystems announced the acquisition of Vera, a cloud-based data protection solution provider. Vera empowers customers in financial services, manufacturing, media & entertainment, and other industries to achieve the fine balance between strong security and productive collaboration by giving users the ability to secure, track, audit, and revoke data access at any time. (more…)

20 January, 2020

Secure Remote Commerce means tokens will generate over US$40bn in revenues globally by 2024

A new report from Juniper Research has found that annual revenues from tokenised mobile payments, where account details are replaced with data useless to fraudsters, will exceed $40 billion (€36 billion) by 2024. (more…)

24 August, 2018

A Week in Telco IT: T-Mobile 2mn user security breach shows comms sector has learned little

T-Mobile was hacked this week and the resulting data breach is depressingly familiar. One security expert believes it points to a “systemic malaise” in the communications industry. Jeremy Cowan reports on a return of old failures. (more…)

19 July, 2018

Businesses collect more data than they can handle, reveals Gemalto

With pressure to ensure consumer data is protected mounting, Gemalto, the provider in digital security, released the results of a global study which reveals that two in three companies (65%) are unable to analyse all the data they collect and  (more…)

13 July, 2018

VNF-based SBCs critical for white box security

Simplicity is becoming a major selling point – especially when it comes to IT security, writes Paul German, the chief executive of VoIPSec. As organisations wake up to the huge additional requirements associated with the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that comes into force in 2018, any solution that can minimise complexity is compelling.

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01 December, 2017

Is data a valuable asset or a business risk? – Part four

In the final part of a four-part series of articles examining how data is a valuable asset as well as a business risk for organisations, Laurence Pitt, the director of security strategy for EMEA at Juniper Networks, explains why proactive datasecurity is essential

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29 November, 2017

Is data a valuable asset or a business risk? – Part three

In the third of a four-part series of articles examining how data is a valuable asset as well as a business risk for organisations, Laurence Pitt, the director of security strategy for EMEA at Juniper Networks, explores the new security threats to data – and the new rules for organisations to follow.

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27 November, 2017

Is data a valuable asset or a business risk? – Part two

In the second of a four-part series of articles examining how data is a valuable asset as well as a business risk for organisations, Laurence Pitt, the director of security strategy for EMEA at Juniper Networks, explores the new data dependency.

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