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BYOK: A Solution for EBA’s ICT and Security Risk Management Guidelines
The European Banking Authority's (EBA’s) new ICT and Security Risk Management Guidelines provide guidance for cybersecurity requirements for...
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The link between HSMs and a Centralized Key Management System
Even in small-scale environments, managing cryptographic relationships and crypto key lifecycles can be difficult. The list of barriers to success...
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Agile Alignment: The Key to Open Banking Success
Open banking can offer opportunities for retail banks that are faced with competition from newcomers to the banking and finance industry. For those...
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Advanced or Qualified eIDAS Signatures: What to Choose?
The Electronic Identification and Trust Services Regulation (EU Regulation 910/2014/EC - also known as eIDAS) is a complex set of laws (including...
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Strong Customer Authentication Under PSD2: EBA Insights
A fundamental objective of the Revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2) has been to reduce the risk of fraud to the maximum extent possible and...
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Postbank Master Key Breach: Strong Key Management Importance
In the last couple of months, facts regarding breaches that occurred during December 2018 at PostBank, the national postal bank operator of South...
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Understanding Tokenization in Banking and Finance
Tokenization is a generalized concept of a cryptographic hash. It means representing something by a symbol (‘token’).
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The Reasons Why a Banking KMS Must Support Atalla Key Blocks
Invented by Mohamed Atalla, the Atalla key block is the root of all key blocks. All over the globe, hundreds of millions of financial transactions...
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Why Native Code Obfuscation is Essential for Mobile Apps
In the mobile environment, source code is often distributed without enough security. Programs compiled as bytecode, such as the ones developed for...