Posted on 28 November 2011 by Thales DIS
Today we’re using our smartphones the same way we use our computers – to surf the Web, make financial transactions, conduct business, and download software. Increasingly, we’re also using the same device for personal and business use. So why aren’t we protecting our phones the same way we do our computers? With rising threats of […]
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Pedro Martinez explains the challenges modern companies face in securing their data, particularly given the proliferation of the cloud. Pedro shows how on-site or hosted servers, which manage the authentication of tokens, help process a unique password for the user, authenticated by back-end systems. Smart, secure and easy solutions help customers and mean companies can […]
Posted on 28 February 2012 by Laurence Cohen
In our latest post answering questions from mobile influencers here at Mobile World Congress, we’re taking a look at questions from Mobile Heroes’ Helen Keegan relating to mobile financial services (MFS). Helen asked us how MFS (and specifically NFC) will improve on the services which online banking providers have now offered for a number of […]
Posted on 14 March 2012 by Thales DIS
Facebook and Google have been under the spotlight recently for the way they deal with online identities. These are just some of the most high profile examples, but have helped drive heightened awareness of our online identities and privacy settings. This week’s SXSWi is understandably awash with debates about what the future might look like […]
Posted on 11 April 2012 by Jennifer Dean
We have blogged many miles of space about the dangers of protecting your business assets with a simple username and password solution. Now there is a new trend using passphrases as a beefed up type of authentication. The problem is, there’s not much meat to this solution. Passphrases are basically a group of dictionary words […]
Posted on 27 April 2012 by Thales DIS
I imagine, like me, you probably carry your mobile phone with you all the time. I’ve never had mine stolen, but mobile phone theft is actually a really big problem globally, but especially in the United States. Did you know that in 2011, 42 percent of all property crimes of individuals in New York involved […]