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Don’t gamble with your identity verification practices

CIO Business Intelligence

Okta issued an alert to clients in late August warning about incoming threats by hackers to gain access to “manipulate the delegated authentication flow via Active Directory (AD) before calling the IT service desk at a targeted organization, requesting a reset of all MFA factors in the target account.” Ransomware, Security

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DRM Protection in K12 Education: The Pros and Cons for Publishers and Students

Kitaboo

For DRM protection measures to work effectively, publishers use various applications and technologies to implement encryptions, licenses, and passwords on copyrighted material. Allows for Licensing: Intellectual property theft can be both intentional or unintentional. DRM technology enables publishers to monitor this by using licenses.

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Securing Your Ebook: The Benefits of DRM for Publishing Companies

Kitaboo

DRM employs various encryption techniques to encrypt eBook files and associate them with specific licenses or rights. These licenses define the permitted actions for the users, such as reading, printing, or copying the content. DRM as a deterrent to piracy. FAQs How does DRM protect eBooks from unauthorized access?

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Building Identity Systems on the Sovrin Network

Phil Windley

For example, I may have a credential representing my drivers license and one representing my employee ID. Yet, because they're based on a metasystem and use a common protocol, I could go to the bank and use those in concert to prove that I'm employed (employee ID) and my date of birth (drivers license) at the same time in one operation.

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AI’s impact on art and creators: Ethical and legal concerns over ownership, misinformation, and more

GeekWire

For artists and creators, and those who purchase or license their work, it can be a confusing time to consider how AI will impact who made what and who owns it. ’ Others will actually say, ‘I own the outputs and you have a license. Some will say, ‘I don’t own the outputs. Maybe you do.

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Life is a Metasystem

Phil Windley

You have to study the individual smart contract's code to understand what it does and whether it behaves like its proponents say it does. as their exclusive solution for authentication 2. If your driver's license has a gold star on it, then it's Real ID compliant. This isn't true of DAOs (or any smart contract).

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10 essential elements of low-code software

mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

Yet, a recent study found that inefficient processes are the biggest source of wasted time in the average workday. Here are a few questions to ask the vendor before licensing a solution: How portable are the applications you create? Friendly licensing. Not all licensing structures are created equal. It reduces errors.