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Keeping Company Networks Safe and Secure as Employees Work from Home:

Companies around the world are asking employees to work from home to help slow the spread of COVID-19. With so many workers handling sensitive corporate data on personal devices or over home routers that might not be secured, security breaches are a growing concern for many companies that find themselves otherwise unprepared. Below, we ask the experts to weigh in on how companies can stay safe while employees work remotely.
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What companies can learn from digital transformation in healthcare

In theory, digital technology offers new ways to work better, faster and cheaper. It should improve outcomes and free up staff to be more creative and productive. Yet, too often digitalisation wastes money and fails to achieve its main goals. In many cases, it isn’t the technology that is at fault, but lack of communications and poor management. Consider healthcare. ‘The attrition rate of nurses is unbelievably high at the global level,’ says Kristina Mikkonen, researcher and doctor in health s
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AI monitoring will change the company-employee relationship

• AI programs can keep ever-closer tabs on staff performance and potential timewasting • Opting out isn’t always easy for staff to do, despite GDPR • AI monitoring based on screen time raises new questions about what productivity is • Employees might start to demand time back for working late or at weekends in return Knowledge workers have a new overlord: artificial intelligence. Until recently, such white-collar employees have been evaluated by the quality of their ideas rather than the quant
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The New Face of Airport Security

Imagine arriving at an airport, dropping your bag on a conveyor belt, and walking to your gate without any lines or other check-in formalities. Your face is your ticket and your passport. It's all you need. That day is approaching. Already, face recognition is being tested at dozens of airports around the world to conduct security checks faster and more accurately than humans can. In 15 U.S. airports, face recognition is being used to finally comply with laws passed as long as two decades ago.
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Blockchain for Business

Blockchain is poised to become part of every business, because it offers a solution for many of the thorniest issues facing companies today: cybersecurity, cost-cutting and due diligence. It is difficult to hack, it cuts out middlemen, streamlines processes and establishes trust. It has two important characteristics: it decentralizes data so everybody has the same copy; and second, each block is built upon another so that no block be changed after the fact. The design makes it nearly impossible to tamper with data and means that everybody can trust the information in the chain.
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Biometric banking

The next frontier for security is likely to arrive at your bank soon: biometric verification of your identity—and you may or may not be aware of it. The global banking sector is expected to spend $2.2 billion (€1.9 billion) on biometrics this year. Fingerprints, facial recognition and iris patterns are among the methods that could be used, thanks in large part to smart phones that already use fingerprints and that have cameras that can capture information.