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AT&T Becomes the Latest Company Affected by Data Breach

CTOvision

The urgency of improving information security cannot be understated. Since the widely publicized attack on Target Corporation, data breaches have become increasingly common – sensitive information stored with both eBay and the California Department of Motor Vehicles has been compromised in the last six months alone.

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Blockchain partner settlement: combining open source, AI and blockchain to grow the 5G ecosystem

TM Forum

The access party provides organization and host information, binds the key and certificate to the new node, then the new organization joins the genesis block and executes the transaction. The settlement chain is based on smart contracts, which encrypts settlement data, public parameters, and rules on the chain. Meta description.

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5G-enabled manufacturing: Realizing Industry 4.0

TM Forum

project, a consortium of manufacturing, IT and telecommunications companies and organizations, worked together to explore the use cases and expected benefits to the Ford Motor company. Securing the MPN was a key feature of this. and the factory of the future. 5G Enabled Manufacturing (5GEM).

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What makes a CIO truly great?

CIO Business Intelligence

Achieving that requires a wide range of knowledge, but for CIOs, the basic building blocks of tech know-how can’t be overlooked: data management, infrastructure and operations, telecommunications and networks, and information security and privacy. Twenty years ago, CIOs had to be knowledgeable about enterprise systems.

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Mastercard preps for the post-quantum cybersecurity threat

CIO Business Intelligence

The goal was to conduct an inventory of the types of networking capabilities within Mastercard’s network, which has thousands of endpoints connected with a few different telecommunications capabilities. “We CIO 100, Data and Information Security, Quantum Computing

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6 legal ‘gotchas’ that could sink your CIO career

CIO Business Intelligence

Employee issues must be documented In my first IT manager’s job, I walked into a situation where my telecommunications supervisor was abusive to her staff and didn’t know the job herself. CIOs should be personally engaged in this process, because ignorance when you are ultimately in charge is not a defense in a security breach suit.

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The Emerging Science of Digital Forensics

Cloud Musings

The emerging science of digital forensics and cybercrime investigation has become very important for national security, law enforcement, and information assurance. This convergent science combines law, computer science, finance, telecommunications, data analytics, and policing disciplines.

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