What is Payment Orchestration? Payment orchestration platforms (POPs), or payments orchestration layer (POL), are platforms that simplify the integration between websites and payment service providers (PSPs). POPs allow for your website to utilize just one platform to connect to multiple payment processors. By increasing the number of payment methods that you accept, you can increase […]
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Email Security
What is Email Security? Email security refers to the various procedures and techniques for protecting email accounts, content, and communication against loss, compromise, and unauthorized access. Cyberattackers often use email to spread malware, spam, and to conduct phishing attacks by using deceptive messages that persuade users to open attachments laden with malware, to click on […]
What are Location-Based Services? Location-based services (LBS) use real-time geolocation data from mobile devices to provide information, security, and/or entertainment. Using a mobile device, even powering it on, exposes location data.1 Mobile devices connect to cellular providers and networks, and when they do the cellular provider receives real-time location information. This information can be used […]
What are Data Centers? Data centers are physical facilities that organizations use to house their critical and proprietary assets. Data centers are designed to centralize an organization’s shared IT operations and equipment for the purposes of storing, processing, and disseminating applications and data. Data centers are essential to the continuity of daily operations, so their […]
What is Infrastructure Cybersecurity? The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) defines National Critical Functions (NCFs) as, “…functions of the government and the private sector so vital to the United States their disruption, corruption, or dysfunction would have a debilitating effect on security, national economic security, national public health or safety, or any combination thereof.”1 […]
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Enterprise AI
What is Enterprise AI? Artificial intelligence (AI) is the field of technology that enables machines to automatically perform tasks that would otherwise require human intelligence. AI can also encompass deep learning, which is capable of making connections and reaching meaning without relying on predefined algorithms, but instead learns from experience and uses raw data as […]
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File-Sharing Threats
What are File-Sharing Threats? File-sharing refers to sharing or providing access to computer files over a network. File types that can be shared may include documents, audio files, video files, graphics, computer programs, e-books, or presentations. File-sharing allows people to use the same files with the purpose of reading, viewing, listening, modifying, copying, and/or printing. […]
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Router Security
What is Router Security? A router is device that connects two or more packet-switched networks or subnetworks. Packet switching is a method of grouping data into packets that are transmitted over a network. Routers serve two primary functions: managing traffic between networks by forwarding data packets to their intended IP addresses and allowing multiple devices […]
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Eavesdropping Smartphones
What are Eavesdropping Smartphones? MediaTek is a Taiwanese company that manufactures chips for smartphones and other smart devices that are used by roughly one third of the world’s smartphones, and 43% of all Android devices. Security updates recently addressed serious vulnerabilities that could allow malicious Android apps to record audio and spy on users. Prior […]
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Zero-Day Exploits/Attacks
What is a Zero-Day Exploit/Attack? A zero-day exploit is what happens when a cyberattacker takes advantage of a security flaw in order to carry out their cyberattack. The term “zero-day” refers to the fact that the security flaw has just been discovered by a vendor or developer, which means they have “zero days” to fix […]