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Understanding the Certificate Authority in the Context of eIDAS
In this article, we will discuss the Certificate Authority (CA) in the context of eIDAS and what is required of this entity in ensuring the integrity...
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EBA ICT & Security Risk Guidelines: A COVID-19 Perspective
Considering the COVID-19 impact on digitalization, EBA’s updated Guidelines on ICT and Security Risk Assessment will help focus on priority areas,...
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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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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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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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Access Token Protection for Secure Mobile Connectivity
In this article, we introduce the role that access tokens play in mobile banking applications and provide recommendations on how to secure these...
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Code Hardening for Secure Mobile Banking Applications
Application hardening usually consists in processing an already developed application, and transforming it so to make it difficult / impossible to...
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Mobile Banking Apps: Secure Storage and Key Protection
The security of the storage of cryptographic secrets is essential to ensuring the security of the whole chain of the cryptographic protocol, where...
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Symmetric Key Encryption - why, where and how it’s used in banking
In today’s cyber-world there is an ever-present risk of unauthorized access to all forms of data. Most at risk is financial and payment system data...