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Understanding BYOK: Bring Your Own Key Explained
Bring your own key (BYOK) is a popular term relating to key management for cloud applications. However, a lack of standardization makes it confusing...
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IBM z15 Mainframe: Key Management & Resilience
Banks continue to feel the profound transformational effects that digital technologies have on their business. This can be seen in the creation and...
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How Tokenization Reduces Payment False Declines
Martin Rupp (guest): 05. November 2021
This article discusses how tokenization may reduce false declines with credit card transactions that could negatively impact merchants.
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Crypto-Abstraction Layer: What You Need to Know
Chris Allen: 23. October 2021
A crypto-abstraction layer (CAL) is, in its most general sense, an application programming interface (API) - also known as a library- that hides...
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FAQs on Cryptographic Key Blocks and Their Use
Martin Rupp (guest): 21. October 2021
This article proposes answers to a series of frequently asked questions (FAQs) about key blocks.
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How Common Criteria Helps Organizations Choose the Right HSM
Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) are used in all card payment systems (as well as various other applications that require strong security) to protect...
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Cryptomathic Signer: Advanced eIDAS-Compliant Signing
As part of the global drive for digital transformation, legally binding digital signatures are at the forefront of many businesses’ ambitions to...
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How an e-Signature Failure Derailed a €3bn Swiss-Austrian Deal
Guillaume Forget: 30. September 2021
Last week order for 186 double-decker trains was nullified due to a legal formality surrounding the Qualified Electronic Signature used to ink the...
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Maximizing PCI & Cryptographic System Security
This article talks about how different factors and controls can affect the strength and effectiveness of a cryptographic system's security. It gives...