Encryption news and trends

Making Sense of How Point-to-Point Encryption Protects Payment Data
Cybersecurity // September 27, 2024

The payments landscape has transformed more in the past five years than the prior 50. And driving that change is a host of emerging behavioral expectations and needs — with younger generations like zillennials favoring quick, easy digital transactions over traditional methods like cash or...

NIST’s Post-Quantum Cybersecurity Standards Ready for Enterprise Use
Cybersecurity // August 15, 2024

As information has become electronic, the encryption of that information has become imperative. And with the news Tuesday (Aug. 13) that, after an eight-year-long process, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has finalized its principal set of encryption algorithms designed to withstand...

How AI Helps the Enterprise Collaborate on Sensitive Data
artificial intelligence // June 20, 2024

More high-quality data is being produced today than at any other period in history. This data, in vast and incomprehensible amounts, is being produced by businesses and individuals. Unlocking it has the potential to positively transform those same businesses and individuals. There is a problem:...

Quantum Breakthrough From Microsoft Could Shorten Technology’s Go-to-Market Timeline
Technology // April 03, 2024

Change happens slowly, and then all at once. And often, the biggest changes are the easiest to miss — particularly as they are happening all around you. Call it the eye of the storm phenomenon. This, as Microsoft and Quantinuum say that they’ve reached a new quantum computing...

Interviews & Exclusives
How AI Helps the Enterprise Collaborate on Sensitive Data

June 20, 2024
More high-quality data is being produced today than at any other period in history. This data, in vast and incomprehensible amounts, is being produced by businesses and individuals. Unlocking it has the potential to positively transform those same businesses and individuals. There is a problem: ensuring privacy, security and intellectual property (IP) safeguards to protect […]

Why Yesterday Is The Key To Building mPOS’ Future

October 25, 2018
Before 2009, when Square launched in the U.S., the world of payments wasn’t terribly friendly terrain for small and micro-businesses looking to accept credit cards. The process was convoluted, and...

How Cutting-Edge Tokens Can Help Retailers Find More Profit In Data

September 20, 2018
Data is one thing — a valuable commodity that makes information the oil of the digital age. However, keeping track of data in a way that enables secure storage, efficient...

Moving Beyond Tokenization’s ‘Automagic’ Buzz

August 10, 2018
Beware complacency in anything, but especially in data security. Technology has a way of lulling people into a false sense of security, promising a “set it and forget it” process...

Quick Reads
Zama Raises $73 Million to Expand Encryption Solution

March 07, 2024
Zama, a specialist in the field of cryptography, has secured $73 million in a Series A funding round to grow its Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) solution. The company will use the new funding to advance its research, extend its runway and champion its partners who are venturing into production with FHE today, Rand Hindi, co-founder and […]

OpenAI Unveils ChatGPT Tool With Enterprise-Grade Security and Privacy

August 28, 2023
OpenAI has unveiled ChatGPT Enterprise, an artificial intelligence (AI) tool with a focus on enterprise-grade security and privacy. ChatGPT Enterprise also has a range of enhanced features that aim to elevate productivity...

Bitcoin Daily: Crypto Investor Sues IRS; Crypto Advocates Eye US Senate Bills That Target Encryption

July 15, 2020
A former Coinbase user, Jim Harper, is looking to protect his privacy from the IRS through a lawsuit, CoinDesk reported. The user received a now-infamous crypto letter from the IRS...

Zoom To Strengthen Security For Its Paid Users

May 31, 2020
Zoom, the video conferencing platform that gained popularity in classrooms of all ages amid the coronavirus pandemic, is planning to beef up security measures for people who pay for a...