RSA Security bets on digital risk management

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While parent company Dell Technologies continues to power the digital transformation of companies, the mission and purpose of RSA Security has evolved to helping customers manage digital risk, he told Computer Weekly on a recent visit to London ahead of RSA Conference 2019 in San Francisco. Ghai said one of the inventors of the RSA algorithm, Ron Rivest, made the point that even as quantum computing develops, it will balance itself out because it can be used for cryptography with much larger keys that are harder to decrypt. “As much as quantum computing is developing, there are alternative approaches which would also be good to keep in your peripheral vision as you think about your strategy going forward,” he added. As examples of these alternative approaches, he cited distributed ledger technology and blockchain, which have use cases that can address some of the business needs, as well as using biometrics and machine learning (ML) for assuring identity. “We believe the shift to risk-based analysis, using machine learning that can reason over vast quantities of data to assess your level of risk, thereby informing your authentication and other business needs.

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