March 01, 2016
IBM Bulks Up Cybersecurity Side With Resilient Systems Buy
IBM Security announced its intent to expand its security operations and incident response capabilities with the acquisition of cybersecurity firm Resilient Systems. The company said that Resilient Systems’ incident response...
February 26, 2016
WISeKey Partners To Secure Smart City Data
Global digital security solutions company WISeKey and real-time city data management platform Cityzenith are working together to aggregate, analyze and visualize critical city data in a highly secure fashion. The...
February 25, 2016
IRS-Backed Online Tax Services Flunk Cybersecurity Test
By now, consumers have become well-educated about the need of cybersecurity in their online and in-store transactions. But what about in their tax transactions with the U.S. government? According to...
February 25, 2016
VCs Now Cold On Cybersecurity Startup Investments
Not all that long ago, cybersecurity investment was on fire. Now, it’s gathering cold moss, at least in terms of funding. As Reuters reported on Tuesday (Feb. 23), the industry itself...
February 24, 2016
Israel’s Team8 Locks In $23M For Cybersecurity Firms
Cybersecurity company Team8 announced Tuesday (Feb. 23) that it closed a $23 million funding round. The funding round adds AT&T, Accenture, Nokia, Mitsui and Temasek to the firm’s existing investor...
February 23, 2016
OPM Top Official Resigns Under Pressure
U.S. Office of Personnel Management Chief Information Officer Donna Seymour has announced her resignation via an email to her colleagues, Reuters reported Monday (Feb. 22). In the email message, which...
February 23, 2016
AT&T Says Most Businesses Eyeing IoT Adoption
Where there’s smoke, there’s fire, and where there’s an entire industry of retailers scrambling to prepare themselves for the IoT apocalypse, said technocataclysm can’t be far behind. That’s the implication...
February 22, 2016
Encryption Vs. Cloud Computing: The Latest Debate
Does backing up data to the “cloud” actually put it in easier reach for law enforcement? According to The Wall Street Journal, while encryption helps to keep a user’s data...
February 18, 2016
White House Picks Two To Lead Cybersecurity Group
The government has just named two leaders in its ongoing (and, at this point, arguably losing) battle with cybercrime. President Obama’s former national security advisor, Thomas Donilon, and IBM’s former...
Digital bill pay, while routine for most consumers, poses challenges such as fraud, friction and limited payment options — particularly in the utilities sector, where consumer trust is low. This edition of the “Money Mobility Tracker®,” a collaboration with Ingo Payments, examines how billers and financial institutions can earn trust among consumers.
There’s no shame in asking for help. Eighty-two percent of merchants experienced a cyber or data breach in the last year, and PYMNTS Intelligence’s latest study of 300 eCommerce executives, “Fraud Management in Online Transactions,” a collaboration with Nuvei, details merchants’ thoughts about fraud prevention, finding that outsourced methods correlate with fewer failed payments.