As authentication options blossom, startup tries to simplify deployment, maintain flexibility

A startup with a strong pedigree is trying to address the problem that businesses have keeping up with the ever-increasing options for authentication.

Transmit Security is shipping a server platform that off-loads the authentication chores that would otherwise reside within applications, making it simpler to roll out authentication in the first place and to upgrade it later without ever touching the applications themselves.

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Samsung Galaxy A3 2017, J7 Prime, J7 2016 To Receive OTA Updates – AmazinessNet (blog)


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Samsung Galaxy A3 2017, J7 Prime, J7 2016 To Receive OTA Updates
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Remember that this update doesn't make the phone upgrade to the Android 7.0 Nougat just yet, but it will be the latest Android January security patch rolled out. Alongside with the new Galaxy A3 2017 January security update, other smartphones J7 Prime …

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Mobile Biometric Security and Service Market to Provide to reach at 46 Billion by 2022 – TechAnnouncer (press release) (registration) (blog)


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Mobile Biometric Security and Service Market to Provide to reach at 46 Billion by 2022
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Mobile Biometric Security and Service market is increasing at a very fast pace due to the increasing need of authentication and security from unwanted cyber threats. The increasing use of mobile device for various services such as mobile banking

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Lessons for corporate IT from Geek Squad legal case

The life of the corporate desktop team can turn into a legal nightmare quickly if end users haven’t agreed that it’s OK for techs to search their machines, something that has come to light in a California child pornography case involving Best Buy’s Geek Squad.

In that case, Geeks working on a customer laptop found a pornographic picture and turned it over to the FBI, which paid them $ 500 and prosecuted the owner of the machine.

Now the Geeks in question are in hot water because the arrangement with the FBI violates the corporate policies of Best Buy, which runs Geek Squad.

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