Blog posts by Bruce Hughes

The Banking and Insurance sectors are very active in its pursuit of faster and less costly solutions to their largely legacy transaction processing infrastructures; blockchain-based distributed ledger technology is at the forefront of a number of new initiatives being investigated and prototyped.  A growing number of broad blockchain initiatives have attracted Venture Capital and Corporate financial investments.  Some of these initiatives are: R3, a distributed ledger provider and consortium of banks, the foundation members being Barclays, BMO Financial Group, Credit...

The Digital Transformation age is focussed on integrating digital technologies such as social, mobile, manufacturing, cloud computing etc.  It will inherently lead to new types of innovation and creativity and is already having far reaching application across business, government, medical and mass communications to name a few.  The Internet of Things (IoT), that is connecting everything to everything, also presents new challenges to organisations.   This new world places Business at risk because they have not embraced security standardisation, developed a holistic view...