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Don’t break the bank: Stopping ransomware from getting the best of your business

Network World

The stages of a cyberattack are analogous to that of a bank robbery. When discussing the progression of a cyberattack with CXOs, I often describe it like this: • Stage 1: When bank robbers are planning a heist, the first thing they do is identify potential banks to target. Stay up to date. Stay up to date.

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Making Banking a More Effortless Experience

CIO Business Intelligence

Along with nearly every other industry, banking is facing greater competitive pressure than ever. As banks continue to face this reality, they’re also tasked with addressing a variety of rapidly changing issues, including those surrounding data protection, adoption of cryptocurrency, and anonymizing data (AI models). .

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Arvest Bank reskills IT to support its banking core refresh

CIO Business Intelligence

When Arvest, a regional bank operating in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma, hired Laura Merling as chief transformation and operations officer in 2021, one of the first things she changed was its digital transformation plan. We wanted to be the leading community-focused bank serving commercial and small businesses.”

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6 key mobile and IoT/OT attack trend findings

Network World

Overall, ThreatLabz tracked a rise in financially motivated mobile attacks – with 111% growth in spyware and 29% growth in banking malware – most of which can bypass multifactor authentication (MFA). Meanwhile, IoT attacks grew 45% year-over-year, and ThreatLabz identified pervasive security risks in OT environments.

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Two Reasons Why Apache Cassandra Is the Database for Real-Time Applications

CIO Business Intelligence

There are many statistics that link business success to application speed and responsiveness. The time that it takes for a database to receive a request, process the transaction, and return a response to an app can be a real detriment to an application’s success. By Aaron Ploetz, Developer Advocate. Real-time data around the world.

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The ultimate in convenient banking: make payments by thinking

Trends in the Living Networks

In my presentation at yesterday’s media launch of ANZ’s Banking on Australia program , I spoke about new ways of making payments using biometrics. Other work in the field includes Two-Stage Biometric Authentication Method Using Thought Activity Brain Waves and Biometric Authentication Using Brain Responses To Visual Stimuli.

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Case in point: taking stock of the CrowdStrike outages

CIO Business Intelligence

Several hospitals canceled surgeries as well, and banks, airports, public transit systems, 911 centers, and multiple government agencies including the Department of Homeland Security also suffered outages. A total of 8.5 million computers were affected. The overall cost was estimated at $5.4

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