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Building trust in digital transactions: Payment security in 2025
The payment landscape continues evolving rapidly, influenced by technological advancements and changing consumer behaviors. These changes present new threats to payments security and demand flexibility and innovation to ensure continued consumer trust. This article explores the key trends shaping payment security in 2025. From advanced threat intelligence and biometrics to AI-driven fraud detection and API…
The evolution of data management: Key trends for 2025 and beyond
As we head into a new year, organizations face increasing pressures to manage their data effectively and responsibly while delivering rapid innovation, in a technology landscape undergoing seismic change driven by AI and cloud computing. In 2025, we predict that several key trends will drastically influence the data management sector, driven by global legislation, security…
2024 in Review: Navigating the Shifting Data Landscape
2024 has been a pivotal year for data, marked by exponential growth, heightened security concerns and an evolving regulatory environment. This year’s data landscape is defined by continued acceleration of cloud adoption, the increasing power of AI and a growing awareness of the critical need for robust data governance. In this post we’ll explore the…
Security Insights and Innovations: Highlights from the 2024 Asia-Pacific Community Meeting
Last week, we made the trip to Hanoi, Vietnam, for the final PCI Community Meeting event of the year. The 2024 Asia-Pacific Community Meeting did not disappoint. Reinforcing the messages from the North America and European events, the APAC conference brought together hundreds of payment security stakeholders both in-person and virtually, representing 26 countries around…
The key to data security and privacy compliance for manufacturing
In the digital age, data has become a vital asset for the manufacturing sector. Since Covid, more than two-thirds of manufacturers have embarked on digital transformation initiatives, driving further data generation and processing. While many of these efforts focus on enhancing operational efficiencies through plant automation, manufacturers have also prioritized customer service and direct-to-consumer offerings…
2024 predictions for data management, data discovery and cybersecurity
This year will be a pivotal one for data management, data discovery and cybersecurity. The industry faces new challenges and opportunities arising from the rapid development and adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) amid a difficult global economic climate affecting budgets and resources. Meanwhile, new laws and regulations governing privacy, data security and AI technologies are…
A year in review: How 2023 shaped the future of data protection
Data breaches and privacy violations continue to climb In 2023, we saw a significant surge in privacy-related complaints and data breaches across the globe, with estimates stating that some 217 million accounts had been compromised worldwide in the first three quarters of the year. The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of New Zealand received 80%…
G20 declarations for digital privacy and AI regulation
Last week, leaders of the G20 met in New Delhi to discuss economic cooperation and collaboration across numerous themes including sustainable development and the green development pact. The meeting also addressed the importance of privacy and trust in the digital economy and the need for global AI regulation. International cooperation for Digital Public Infrastructure As…
Privacy considerations for AI technologies
ChatGPT, Google Bard and Microsoft Bing Chat have ignited public awareness of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) and fuelled privacy concerns related to AI and ML technologies. However, these represent just one type of AI with many others forming the basis of technology solutions we interact with every day, from facial recognition systems…
Managing data growth — How much data do you really need?
Data is the heart of modern business. It’s used to drive decision-making, develop products and services, evaluate performance and to deliver customers an experience that keeps them loyal. A recent survey found that enterprise organizations experienced a 63% growth in data volume each month, storing around 2.02PB across local, managed and cloud-hosted storage locations. While…