Ulrich Scholten (guest) & Stefan Hansen

Ulrich Scholten is an internationally active entrepreneur and scientist. He holds a PhD in information technology and owns several patents on cloud-based sensors. His research on cloud computing is regularly published in highly rated journals and conference papers. From 2008 - 2015, he was associated research scientist at the Karlsruhe Service Research Institute (KSRI), a partnership by KIT and IBM, where he researched network effects around web-platforms together with SAP Research.

Stefan Hansen is a Global Marketing VP at Cryptomathic and oversees Cryptomathic's marketing operations. As a Marketing Geek, Stefan's understanding of the technological aspects of Cryptomathic's solutions is second only to his appreciation of the subtleties of marketing. His expertise includes Digital & Content Marketing, Event Management, Product Marketing and Project Management (and 90's hip hop). Stefan holds a BA (Hons) in Marketing and a Postgraduate Diploma in Professional Marketing from the Chartered Institute of Marketing.

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4 Reasons How Banks Should Use Cryptography To Become Digitally Agile

For traditional banks to rise above the competition they face from big tech, neobanks, and fintech, they need to add new digital skills to their...

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Banking-grade Key Management: From On-premises to Multi-cloud BYOK

In this article, we will look at integration points and explain why it is important that a key management system is able to integrate with a number...

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IBM's z15 Mainframe - Security, Resilience and Secure Key Management for Financial Service Platforms

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IBM z15 Mainframe & Secure Key Management for FS Platforms

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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Payment & Banking: Why IBM z/OS Needs a Banking-grade KMS for the Hybrid Cloud

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Why IBM z/OS Needs a Banking-grade KMS for Hybrid Cloud

The IBM mainframe series (“z-series”) has become a backbone for security, privacy and resilience in a large share of payment and banking related...

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BYOK for MS Azure KEY Vault - Helping Banks Take Control of Their Keys for MS Azure, Dynamics, and Office 365

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Take Control of Your Keys: BYOK for the MS Azure Key Vault

This article explores how Cryptomathic CKMS combines BYOK for the MS Azure Key Vault with banking-grade key lifecycle management; to address the...

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Common Types of Cryptographic Keys That are Most Difficult to Manage

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Common Types of Cryptographic Keys That are Most Difficult to Manage

Securely managing cryptographic keys is typically the most difficult part of encryption. In the recent Ponemon Institute survey, Global Encryption...

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eIDAS - What You See is What Your Sign (WYSIWYS) for Non-Repudiation

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eIDAS - What You See is What You Sign (WYSIWYS) for Non-Repudiation

What You See is What Your Sign (WYSIWYS) is a term that is used to describe an enhanced level of data integrity within a digital signature system....

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Integrating Microsoft Banking Accelerator with On-prem Key Management

The cloud services provided by Microsoft Dynamics 365 are gaining rapid market share in the banking world. A burning question for the security...

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Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) to AWS Enlarges Scope of Manoeuvre for Financial Institutions

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The Benefits of Bring Your Own Key for AWS in the Financial Sector

This article discusses how Cryptomathic CKMS addresses concerns that financial institutions may have regarding key management in the cloud - by...

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