In our earlier blog, we had explored the various uses of blockchain as a ‘relational database’. We shall explore a specific use case in this blog – Banking 2.0 Banking 2.0 is a new concept promoted by Brett King. He talks about how consumer behaviour is the seed for innovation… read more →
In the last blog we saw that convergence of Operational Technology ( OT) and Information Technology (IT) is the obvious evolution of ‘Internet of Things’, and the security consideration being different between each case. It is clear that this is a combination of ‘Physical Security’ and ‘Cyber Security’ that combine… read more →
In the earlier blog ‘Digital Economy – Bitcoin: The BlockChain Story’ is making waves as a much needed encryption mechanism for databases. There have been waves of security attacks, as more and more people switch to online transactions. Ecommerce, online services transactions and citizen services (by governments) have made life… read more →
In the last blog, we covered how digital economy is about to be influenced by block chain startups. Now, let us look at some of the BlockChain Applications. Look at it this way – we are seeing both government, monetary authority and central banks starting their own digital currency initiatives. … read more →
From exploring mobile devices and wearables, the world is just waiting for a tsunami of unprecedented scale – IOT devices. This Internet of Things, essentially having machines to talk to each other and to humans, brings in a volume of devices from the consumers, factories, and everything in between. Any… read more →
BlockChain, the underlying technology of Bitcoin is becoming a strong method for secure payments. Blockchain refers to the public ledger of transactions in bitcoin. These transactions are verified and updated by a network of computers solving complex algorithms in order to add a new block to the code.With that, the… read more →
After exploring the near-, mid-, and long terms measures of cyber security with respect to digital economy, we shall now explore another aspect of digital economy. While not still prevalent in the main stream, especially in the fast growing ecommerce industry in the world, digital currencies have made a significant… read more →
As we saw, mobile device management is not about managing the device, but the data in particular. However, there is a lot about the devices that influences data. Wearable technology has come into vogue. Let us look the last three years.In 2012, Google launched its Google Glasses and Samsung rolled… read more →
After exploring policy level influences like COPE and Corporate Liability, our BYOD series now shifts to Mobile Device Management. For the past two decades, Enterprise Management has covered lot of devices – starting with Networking, Security, Server, Storage and Databases, through what was called ‘Configuration Management Databases’, linked with various… read more →
The last two blogs of these series had dealt with near- and mid-terms measures of cybersecurity for a digital economy. The September 11 attacks have changed many things – among them, how attack on utilities can be used as vehicles to disrupt an economy. The long term approach to avoid… read more →
