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Obsession? Hype? Revolution? It Might Be a Bit of Everything: Moving Into the Age of Blockchain in Cybersecurity, Identity and Privacy

In looking at the current investor craze mainly around the primary use case of blockchain, the Bitcoin, it sometimes gets a bit difficult to think beyond the bubble and track those blockchain projects, which indeed are on their way to becoming useful in changing the way we do things like…

A Short History of EIC - Europe's Leading Event on Digital ID & Transformation

More than 12 years ago, the first EIC attracted an already surprisingly large number of practitioners dealing with directory services, user provisioning and single sign-on, as well as vendors, domain experts, thought leaders and analysts. I remember Dick Hardt giving an incredibly visionary…

Why Wikileaks' Vault 7 Publication isn't Worth Reading

Vault 7, Wikileaks´ recently published plethora of documents and files from internal CIA resources, has created quite some excitement and noise, and it has even been compared with Edward Snowden´s NSA revelations. My opinion: this is complete nonsense. In looking at what…

Revision of the Payment Services Directive (PSD2) - A significant set of new requirements for financial institutions

The European Commission´s revision of the Payment Services Directive (PSD2) is coming along with a significant set of new requirements for financial institutions with and without a banking licence – and therefore doesn´t only have friends It all started with the 1st…

The Brave New World of Digital Business

On a trip to New York last week, I had the great opportunity to visit the Henri Matisse exhibition in the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), which shows his Cut-Outs and is the most extensive and a very impressive exhibition of this period of Matisse´s work. If you happen to be in New York…

“Google Home Automation” – Do We Really Need This?

It was recently reported that Google has bought Nest Labs , a manufacturer of home automation sensors and devices with, currently, two products: a digital thermostat and a Smoke + CO Alarm. Why is it, then, that somebody would spend 3.2 Billion USD for a company producing home appliances…

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Oops, Google did it again!

Like many people with a long career in IT, I have numerous small computer-related side…

The No. 1 Rule of Secure Cloud Migration: Know Your Unstructured and Dark Data and Where It Is Located

With a huge amount of data around, cloud migration is the ideal solution today. A necessary…

Jul 16, 2019: Privileged Access Management Needs a New Approach

As organizations accelerate their digitalization efforts to stay relevant and competitive in…

Jul 03, 2019: Security in the Age of the Hybrid Multi Cloud Environment

The way is clear for the hybrid multi-cloud environment! With an increase in cloud services,…

Martin Kuppinger - Closing Keynote & Announcement of EIC 2019s Gamification Winners