The Metaverse: an advertiser’s Wild West
The Metaverse presents companies with a challenge: effectively position their products in a virtual Wild West of new consumer expectations — with no instruction manual and little room for error. Advertisers must constantly adapt to the latest trends to keep their
Digital twins: real-time virtual simulations helping industry and medicine
Virtual worlds are in vogue, but equal promise lies in developing virtual environments for things: so-called digital twins. The technology is a fusion of simulation and internet-of-things (IoT) sensing that allows digital models of objects to be updated with accurate real-time
The Metaverse…of Privacy?
Late last year, Meta/Facebook announced the arrival of the Metaverse: the massive, immersive, shared, virtual reality. It could be the next evolution of entertainment, a new internet — or an enormous, very loud distraction. Whichever it turns out to be, Meta
Noteworthy tech trends for 2022
While the past 2 years have been incredibly difficult for many people, they have also shown how deep our capacity for innovation runs. Towards the end of 2019, there were an estimated 10 years of technological growth in e-commerce —
Removing barriers to entry: blockchain-as-a-service
At its most basic, blockchain is a technology for storing data. It is attractive because of its inherent security, in-built trust mechanisms, and lack of centralised control. In general, rather than keeping records in one place — a single company’s servers
Hackers create fake company and hire ‘employees’ for ransomware campaign
The FIN7 cybercrime group created a fake company and hired legitimate programmers as part of its expansion into ransomware. The recruits were unwittingly employed in real life cyberattacks under the guise of red team simulations. The cybergang fashioned a website for
The journey of digital transformation — Altaz Valani
It has become a challenge, even as individuals, to keep up with innovation. But for many organisations, the task is Sisyphean; while they struggle to get their technology to the top of the hill, new summits materialise in the distance.
The path of least permissions — CloudKnox’s Mike Raggo
The SolarWinds hack was a body blow to the cybersecurity industry. The incident brought a number of legacy shortcomings into focus and drew attention to the potential for others to inflict harm if left unchecked. One of these, according to CloudKnox’s Mike
A different kettle of phish — Cofense’s Tonia Dudley
Cyberattacks are on the rise and companies are having a difficult time keeping up. To make matters worse, the threat actors starts with an advantage; they know where, when, and through which mechanism the attack will happen. At times, security professionals