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Country can’t afford to take cyber security resources from even friendly country: IT Secretary
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AM Best maintains stable outlook on India’s non-life insurance segment
“We expect that India’s non-life premium growth will be bolstered...
Adopt zero trust identity to validate devices in network: Niti Advisor
“We will have to adopt zero trust identity and access management policy to validate each device in the organisation network. Intra-organisations meetings have become very common and inter-organisation is also happening. We need to automate device enrolment and software updates, leverage artificial intelligence tools for threat detection,” Niti Aayog senior adviser for science and technology, Neeraj Sinha said while speaking at an PHD chamber of commerce event on cyber security.
Nearly 72 pc of financial transactions of PSBs done through digital channels: MoS finance
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has informed that it is not considering a separate licensing category for digital banks at present, Minister of State for Finance Bhagwat K Karad said in a written reply to the Rajya Sabha.
Alibaba blasted by state media despite firing manager accused of sex assault
State media and online commentators were overwhelmingly critical of Alibaba’s perceived delay in handling the incident.
“Alibaba could not offer an answer that satisfies public opinion for this ham-handed inaction,” said an editorial in the Global Times tabloid, published by the state-run People’s Daily.
Digital payments sees significant growth in tier II, III towns
The report said that on August 6, 2021 – which marks the completion of 500 days of pandemic-related restrictions — a new lifestyle for disruptors and disruptive businesses has emerged with digital payments as its financial backbone.
Not a single sector has shown negative growth during the last 250 days, reflecting their openness to innovation and acceptance of digital modes of payments, it said.
73% of Indian firms expect customer data breach in next 1 year
Nearly 57 per cent Indian organisation among those surveyed said it was somewhat to very likely that they’d suffer serious cyber-attacks in the next 12 months.
While 34 per cent suffered more than 7 cyber attacks that infiltrated networks/systems, 20 per cent had more than 7 breaches of information assets.
UNICEF India, Facebook launch initiative to create safe online environment for children
The partnership will include a nationwide social media campaign and capacity building for 1,00,000 schoolchildren on online safety, digital literacy and psychosocial support, it said.
Will take all measures to eliminate use of crypto-assets: Govt
In a written reply to the Rajya Sabha, Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary also said the government will explore the use of block chain technology proactively for ushering in digital economy.
”The government does not consider crypto-currencies legal tender or coin and will take all measures to eliminate use of these crypto-assets in financing illegitimate activities or as part of the payment system,” he said.
Lloyd’s chooses 11 Start-Ups for developing products on claims and cryptocurrencies
For the seventh cohort, the InsurTech start-ups have been selected based on solutions geared towards three key themes: claims, data and models, and cryptocurrencies. Additionally, for the second cohort in a row, the Lloyd’s Lab accepted wildcard entrants who presented solutions outside of the core themes.
These start-ups focus on important areas such as anti-money laundering, robotics and construction. The teams will be working to create insurance products and solutions which can be adapted to the Lloyd’s market.
Digital currency model likely by the end of year: RBI
Earlier, RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das made it clear that the central bank continues to have concerns with the private digital currency (DCs) which are not regulated and has conveyed the same to the government
AIG is reducing cyber insurance limits as cost of coverage soars
“We continue to carefully reduce cyber limits and are obtaining tighter terms and conditions to address increasing cyber loss trends, the rising threat associated with ransomware and the systemic nature of cyber risk generally,” CEO Peter Zaffino said on a conference call with analysts, according to a transcript produced by Refinitiv.