Digital Currency has arrived in many countries, including India in pockets, but major economies are still toying with the idea of how to bring it under currency regulations. The idea of Bitcoin was to be completely decentralized without any moderating platform. It was supposed to be a cryptocurrency and supposed… read more →
Mobile security in 2016: With most of the enterprise and consumer services business inevitably embracing mobile security, mobile platforms are the most recent and primary platforms of attack. As we have professional hackers, ‘hacktivists’ and many government agencies now tracking applications there is a great propensity to consider that mobile… read more →
Cut to 2015. The scenario is lot more encouraging. Economic times of India, in an August feature indicates that albeit being slow, there are many Indians who have started using bitcoin to transfer money to the kin abroad. In a report, Red Herring reports that the usage of bitcoin in… read more →
India has taken a cautious approach to Digital Currency. The journey is one of that of cautious rejection and the Reserve Bank of India has a strong position against evolution of digital currency without proper security and legal systems to support. RBI advisory and raids: In a conference in… read more →
The success of IOT Security Ecosystem (IOTSE) is like any other system. Proper design, planned implementation, user adoption and training and change management and continuous monitoring and upgrade is key for the success. The IOTSE Manager along with the component stakeholders play an important role in its success. IOT Security… read more →
Over the last few blogs we have covered various dimensions of cybersecurity in Internet of Things. In the last two blogs, let us look at some of the key factors that one should consider while creating Cyber Security Ecosystem. We also realize that one should look at an ‘Ecosystem Manager’… read more →
New evolutions like Digital Currency and mobile banking have challenges conventional ways of dealing with cybersecurity. Traditionally, closed ecosystems have been advocated for design of ‘commercial transactional architecture’ systems – which enable to predict threats and easier way of risk management overall. But as Banking 2.0 explains, the consumer behaviour… read more →
The IOT ecosystem has many components. What is key here is to acknowledge the fact the ecosystem is already there. Some believe that the ecosystem is still evolving, while some believe that the ecosystem is already there. A neat classification of the following major areas: Things Consumer: Home Security, Smart… read more →
In continuation of our earlier blog, we analyse the confluence of mobile banking and digital currency in this piece. Bill Gates in his 2015 annual letter talks about Digital Banking being one of the most important disruptions of the 21st century. Already with developing countries, mobile phones are becoming banks… read more →
Our earlier blog covered how ‘physical security’ and ‘data handling’ are two great challenges for security administrators. Here we are cover how ‘openness’ of IOT systems will add to these challenge. The growth of Internet of Things is ever pervading across industries and horizontal applications. What is key here is… read more →
