by Pete Rogers | Feb 24, 2020 | Bitcoin and Blockchain
Traditionally the global finance industry, along with the products and services that it provides, has been dominated by vast, centralized institutions that ultimately dictate who gets access to financial services and who does not. For example, to be approved for a...
by Pete Rogers | Feb 11, 2020 | Bitcoin and Blockchain
There are a number of significant business benefits that blockchain technology and blockchain-based solutions can organizations. These include a high degree of security, public verification of data and transactions, transparency and auditability, as well as reduced...
by Pete Rogers | Aug 24, 2018 | Bitcoin and Blockchain
By what measure should we judge the success of bitcoin? Given the wildly varying responses you get when the subject comes up, and come up it does….regularly, it’s perhaps worth spending a moment to reflect on this question. It certainly seems that everyone who has...
by Pete Rogers | Aug 16, 2018 | Bitcoin and Blockchain
They say that the only certainties in life are death and taxes. But there is something else that has been with us since the dawn of time: change. Change is constant. Every new thing arrives on the heels of something old, making our life easier than before,...
by Pete Rogers | Aug 3, 2018 | Bitcoin and Blockchain
Richard Branson once said, “Hiring the right people takes time, the right questions and a healthy dose of curiosity”. Agreed. But it also requires an investment; an investment of resources and of money. And if you, as the hirer, get it wrong it can lead to a...
by Pete Rogers | Nov 4, 2017 | Bitcoin and Blockchain
In his video The Future of Cryptocurrencies, Andreas Antonopoulos, whom I’ve been following since I got into the whole bitcoin, blockchain and distributed ledger world, talks about the explosion in cryptocurrencies. Andreas is a Bitcoin evangelist and one of the...
by Pete Rogers | Sep 16, 2017 | Bitcoin and Blockchain
For most of us, placing our trust in organizations, institutions and individuals that we don’t really know is often the only way we can get things done in today’s world. For example depositing money in a bank means that we are trusting the bank to return...
by Pete Rogers | Aug 7, 2017 | PCI DSS, Security & Compliance
According to a recent CSO report, online attackers are stepping up their SSL/TLS (Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security) game to hide malicious activities. The report confirms that there has been significant growth recently in the application of SSL/TLS, which...
by Pete Rogers | Jul 7, 2017 | General Data Protection Regulation, Security & Compliance
The General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR will have a major impact on companies that manage the private information of European Union citizens. This includes US companies that sell goods and services to EU residents. This article describes the most impactful...
by Pete Rogers | Jun 16, 2017 | Security & Compliance
The term ‘social engineering‘ sounds manipulative and divisive – and indeed that’s exactly what it is. But, before we get on to social engineering as a cyber security threat, it’s worth pointing out that the principles behind this form of...
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