On February 8, Privacy by Design (PbD) officially became an international privacy standard—but the architecture you use to operationalize its principles may matter as much as the standard itself.
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Architecture is Everything as 'Privacy by Design' Becomes an ISO Standard
In this video blog, our CTO, Rohan Pinto, joins our CMO, Michael Cichon, to discuss why architecture matters for security and privacy in citizen ID.
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Why Architecture Matters for Security and Privacy in Citizen ID
On December 9, 2021 a flaw was publicly disclosed in Apache's Log4j 2, a logging utility used by Java applications. Named Log4Shell (CVE-2021-44228), the vulnerability can be used by attackers to t...
What You Need to Know about Log4Shell (CVE-2021-44228)
Kim Cameron, the Father of Modern Identity, has greatly influenced the way we think about digital identity and privacy today. We were saddened to hear that Kim passed away on November 30th, 2021 af...
Rest in Peace, Kim Cameron
In this vlog, 1Kosmos CMO, Michael Cichon, and 1Kosmos CTO, Rohan Pinto discuss digital wallets, flexible levels of identity assurance and how to secure your digital wallet.
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Digital Wallets
1Kosmos CTO, Rohan Pinto, and CMO, Michael Cichon, discuss the 1Kosmos platform, identity proofing, the NIST guidelines, blockchain technology and more in this vlog.
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Vlog: The BlockID Platform with Rohan Pinto
Voice authentication makes logins as easy as speaking. This may sound futuristic, but it's the security that's saving businesses from breaches every day.
Is voice recognition secure? Yes, voice ...
Voice Authentication: How It Works & Is It Secure?
1Kosmos CTO, Rohan Pinto, and CMO, Michael Cichon, discuss appless authentication in this recent vlog.
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All right, welcome Rohan Pinto, chief technology officer at 1Kosmos. It's ...
Vlog: Appless Authentication
The 7 Foundational Principles of Privacy by Design:
1. Proactive not Reactive; Preventative not Remedial
The Privacy by Design approach is characterized by proactive rather than reactive meas...
Privacy by Design
How do you feel when a website requires you to surrender your birthdate as a requirement to complete a transaction?
If you are like me, you feel equal parts irritated and concerned. Irritated be...
CTO Insights: What is Self-Sovereign Identity?
The Anatomy of The Chain (Pt. 4 of 4)
Congratulations on making it to the fourth and final leg of the journey we started in September. Given the magnitude of effect blockchain is having and will h...
CTO Insights (IDentifier February 2020)
Blockchain, as we all know, a decentralized, peer-to-peer system with no central authority managing data flow, and immutable database that not only records the financial transaction but also stores...
EU’s GDRP and its Effect on the Blockchain
Democratization and freedom-enhancing characteristics of the blockchain seen in many projects also apply in the case of consumer genomics , which is the concept of uplifting organizations to the bl...
Blockchain Genomics
Hello and thank you for joining me in this third part of a series where we are exploring the anatomy and features of the blockchain. In the September 2019 IDentifier,
I introduced the blockchain...
CTO Insights (IDentifier November 2019)
In the September 2019 IDentifier, I introduced the blockchain concept and explained how it provides a different and superior method of storing data relative to traditional centralized databases. In...
CTO Insights (IDentifier October 2019)
British Airways. T-Mobile. Facebook. Google. What do they all have in common? They were all targets of successful database hacks last year. These hacks compromised the identities of tens of million...
CTO Insights (IDentifier September 2019)
On May 22, 2018, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a complaint against Titanium Blockchain, an Israeli start up in the middle of its ICO at the time. According to the SEC, the...
Titanium Blockchain: Why it Failed
Facebook is reportedly working on a cryptocurrency money transfer application that will be integrated into WhatsApp. The service, which is set to be launched in India upon approval, will apparently...
Facebook Targets Indian Money Transfer Market Using Crypto
Hackers are coming up with innovative ways to spread crypto mining malware. According to a new report, over 400,000 routers have been infected by a cryptojacking malware that specifically targets M...
Hackers Are Spreading Crypto Mining Malware via Routers
TRON is a digital currency created by controversial figure Justin Sun that aims to expand the area of decentralized applications (DApps) by making the tools for their creation and management more a...
A Guide to Tron Cryptocurrency
SALT lending is a platform that provides Blockchain-Backed Loans. SALT (Secured Automated Lending Platform) enables you to put up your crypto as collateral in exchange for a cash loan. This strateg...
What Is SALT Lending? | A Guide to the Blockchain Loan Platform
Cryptocurrencies are always innovating new opportunities for investors who can take full advantage of the many coin platforms in the market today. And with this innovation came the inception of cry...
Top 5 Cryptocurrency-Backed Platforms for Quick Loans
There is so much talk about Bitcoin mining all the time, from Bitmain’s huge expansion plans to news concerning Nvidia’s ASIC devices. A common understanding is that the Bitcoin network is secured ...
Six Best Bitcoin Mining Software
Genesis Mining is one of the largest cloud mining operations in the world. This crypto giant started from meager beginnings and grew into a global powerhouse in less than five years. Genesis Mining...
How Genesis Mining Took Over the Cloud Mining Sector
Advertising has become an essential part of promoting any type of business available and even plays a role in driving the data market further. The world of advertising is worth billions of dollars ...
A New Age for Digital Advertising with Blockchain?
Have you ever thought about how blockchain could affect the diamond industry? Probably not, right? But now blockchain technology could improve how we track diamonds, from the mine to the jewelry st...
The Diamond Blockchain: Ending Blood Diamonds with New Tech
The emergence of peer-to-peer (P2P) cryptocurrency lending platforms in China has swiftly increased over the years. This is happening at a time when the nation is stuck in the middle of the latest ...
P2P Cryptocurrency Lending Surges in China
Coin Dance is a community-driven platform offering statistics and services for Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash. Along with other prominent sites like Bitfire, a new wave of sites are challenging models no...
Community Driven Cryptocurrency Statistics
SovereignWallet, a blockchain-based and virtual wallet service, plans to increase the level of inclusion within the cryptocurrency industry by allowing users to transfer assets directly from their ...
Crypto Virtual Wallet Enabling Text Transfers
When we think about industries set for disruption by blockchain, construction probably isn’t top of the list. After all, the traditional image of a building site seems far removed from crypto, codi...
How Blockchain and Construction Will Build a New World
For just a small window of time, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency seemed to be unstoppable. Their value kept increasing and there was no legislation that was set up to police its use yet. But then ...
Top 6 Tax-Free Ways to Transfer Cryptocurrencies
The cryptocurrency market is a high-octane playground for day Lambo dreamers and investors. It has made some super-rich, almost overnight and reduced others to the brink of bankruptcy. And of cours...
Inflated Success: Cryptocurrency Exchange Trading Secrets Revealed
The advantages of blockchain often become a secondary topic each time prices cycle through a new bubble. Public eyes shift away from the advantages of blockchain and towards the advantages of specu...
The Advantages of Blockchain Beyond Speculation
Digital Gold Exchange, a South Korea-based blockchain startup has created a platform that allows cryptocurrency holders to exchange their digital assets for gold. Gold has always been closely assoc...
New Blockchain Platform Allows Gold Exchange for Crypto
Anonymous, pseudonymous, or real identities can be uniquely mapped on the blockchain, offering us the promise of owning our own identities, and not having them controlled by Google or Facebook. The...
Blockchain-based Identity Ownerships and Representation
On May 25th, the General Data Protection Regulation was brought into impact. A fast 101 about GDPR: its a far reaching and thorough European Union collection of decisions that cares for individual ...
GDPR All Set To Revolutionize Blockchain
Crypto users could soon be enjoying more hardware choices. Multiple smartphone manufacturers announced plans to integrate blockchain technology into their products in the coming months. Blockchain ...
Blockchain Telecommunications: The New Era of Crypto Phones
Although digital currencies have shown a substantial amount of progress over the past few years, recent volatility in the crypto world is giving skeptics more reason to stay doubtful.
While we h...
Thousands of Crypto Coins Dead: These Are Top 5
Well into the second half of 2018 and it’s been a white-knuckle roller coaster ride for most. With Ether shedding 44 percent of its value in just two weeks and the media speaking of a Bitcoin bubbl...
Can Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Be Separated?
The European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which will come into force on May 25, 2018 is the most discussed law across Europe. It contains stricter standards for collecting and pr...
GDPR Challenges for Blockchain Technology
Building a cryptocurrency portfolio is not something you do in 5 minutes. The rise of the cryptocurrency market and ICO’s, in general, has lured many investors into the idea of making big bucks as ...
5 Keys to Consider When Building Your Cryptocurrency Portfolio
The rise of Bitcoin and the blockchain industry has been accompanied by criticism, just like any other emerging tech sector. Such criticism was heard during the dawn of the internet, and despite it...
Bank of Central Banks Wants to Stop Creation of Crypto
Australia. Plenty of images come to mind when we think of the land down under. Sun-bleached surfers, wallabies, the Sydney Opera House. But, Australia, despite its modest population of 23 million, ...
5 Signs of Booming Blockchain Innovation in Australia
Anyone who has tried to use Facebook advertising is familiar with the many terms and regulations, from the copy to the visuals to the URL. So it was hardly surprising when Facebook drew another lin...
Facebook Lifts Ban on Cryptocurrency, But Still Blocks ICOs
Blockchain technology is often called the “Internet of value.” If so, it makes sense that the financial industry should be among the biggest to benefit from distributed ledgers. Digital Asset is a ...
What Is Digital Asset? Distributed Ledgers for Financial Institutions
There has been a lot of buzz surrounding cryptocurrency and blockchain mostly due to the potential high sums of money that can be made in the industry. Recently, though, a lot of that attention has...
Mastercard vs VISA : Blockchain Projects
Bitcoin Cash arose as an alternative to Bitcoin, and it’s currently between the third and second most valuable cryptocurrency in the world by market cap, after Bitcoin and Ethereum. The founders of...
What is Bitcoin Cash? BCH vs Bitcoin
The truth of the popular statement "everyone is online now" gets more grounded with each day that passes. Daily, millions of people come online to carry out different activities ranging from resear...
How Blockchain Can Solve Identity Management Problems
The health care industry is experiencing tension for cost control and nature of administrations and services. As the business develops close by disruptive innovations. It turned out to be amazingly...
Blockchain In The Healthcare Industry
When you look up for scaling issue associated with Ethereum blockchain you will find number of holes in Ethereum’s jacket. A number of technical challenges related to the blockchain, whether a spec...
Scaling Ethereum to Billions of Users
The world has changed so are the ways of doing businesses. The super new innovation is block chain. The potential advantages of block chain have created enormous pursuit from many multi-national su...
Blockchain In The Travel Industry
While cryptocurrency has only recently become a popular term in finance, it has been around for a long time. Before names like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin even existed, there were attempts to c...
Bitcoin vs. Ethereum vs. Litecoin
While the cryptocurrency market can be a good way to make money, it is also a prime target market for scammers. In this article, we’ll look at some of the most common bitcoin schemes and how to pro...
Don’t Fall For These Cryptocurrency Scams
A standout amongst the most discussed themes in the banking industry today is blockchain in finance sector. On the off chance that completely received, it will empower banks to process payments all...
Blockchain In The Financial Sector (A Banking Use Case)
Food safety remains essential to everyone, and blockchain alleviates some of the dangers to the food safety supply chain. Diseased, contaminated, or spoiled food kills. Food goes bad with improper...
Food Safety and Blockchain: Keeping You Safe One Bite at a Time
Technology has revolutionized many walks of life so as the security and identity management systems. biometrics was one of them. Biometrics has ended up being a standout amongst the most vital adva...
Blockchain and Biometrics
Another important application developing as part of Blockchain 3.0 is blockchain governance; that is, the idea of using blockchain technology to provide services traditionally provided by nation-st...
Blockchain For Governments and the Public Sector
The hierarchical structure is the blueprint of an organization's system and rules for overseeing business tasks. Entrepreneurs are normally in charge of making their organizations' authoritative st...
What Are Decentralized Organizations?
First we need to see what is mnemonics? It is a system such as a pattern of letters, ideas, or associations which assists in remembering something. A mnemonic private key is a memory technique util...
Why Are Mnemonic Phrase Based Private Keys Unhackable?
Waves is a new blockchain platform founded by Russian physicist, Alexander Ivanov, and was developed and operated by Waves Platform AG. The unique feature the Waves platform offers is that it allow...
Waves Platform For Custom Token Creation
Know your customer (KYC) and anti-money-laundering (AML) regulations require banks to know who they’re doing business with and ensure that they’re not participating in money laundering or terrorism...
KYC and AML
Before getting further into this current, we should endeavor to comprehend what decentralized and centralized/permissionless or permissioned blockchain are.
Permission less: Permissionless Block...
Permissioned vs Permissionless Ledgers
IPFS stands for Inter Planetary File System. Interplanetary File System is a protocol and network designed to create a content-addressable, peer-to-peer method of storing and sharing hypermedia in ...
What Is IPFS?
The finance industry is seeing big strides with using blockchain technology, but this is not the only industry that will be able to use this technology. While blockchain is strongly associated with...
A Blockchain-Based Digital Identity and Voting System
What happens if two miners find a block at almost the same point in time? PoW blockchains resolve such conflicts called blockchain fork and how attacks might utilize this resolution mechanism to perf...
What Are Blockchain Forks?
Introducing Kaleido, Amazon’s Foray into Blockchain
Amazon just made its entrance into the blockchain industry, and it’s opening the door with a platform that’s meant to make it easier for busin...
Amazon Web Services Launches Kaleido Blockchain Platform
The Bitcoin blockchain network is composed of nodes and nodes are basically computers connected to the internet, running the Bitcoin or other blockchain software. The Bitcoin network is a peer-to-p...
What Are Master Nodes?
Blockchain is a technology that enables movement of digital coins or cryptocurrency or digital assets from one individual to another and Cryptocurrencies are those assets which are transacted using...
Blockchain vs Cryptocurrencies
Blockchain, by design and definition, defines a particular type of database. It is constructed to read only once database. What that means is, they are designed to be only ever created, and n...
Costs Of Storing Data On The Blockchain
One notable element about millennials in the modern society is their constant addiction to technology trends. They spend most of their time glued to either computers or their phones surfing through...
Millennials Will Use Blockchain To Change The World They Live In
Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm or ECDSA is a cryptographic algorithm used by Bitcoin to ensure that funds can only be spent by their rightful owners. While the private key is a secret n...
The Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA)
A hаѕhing algorithm determines thе way in whiсh the hash funсtiоn iѕ going tо bе uѕеd. It iѕ thеrеfоrе imроrtаnt tо diffеrеntiаtе between the аlgоrithm аnd the funсtiоn.
Hаѕhing algorithm is an...
How Dоеѕ A Hashing Algоrithm Wоrk?
Developed after the 2008 global financial crisis, a blockchain is a decentralized ledger designed to replace an outdated financial system that is seen as corrupt, unethical, and unfair. The fundame...
The Speed Of Blockchain Adoption
The forecast is frightening: Robots will take over all manual labor and self-generating code will automatically spin out the algorithms once developed by statisticians and programmers. Humans will ...
Cognitive Computing: Creating a Dent and Changing the World
Blockchain-as-a-service or simply BaaS is opening new markets and changing business models. These changes can improve your business’s efficiency and create new opportunities for products and servic...
Blockchain as a Service (BaaS)
Ethereum based smart contracts are opening new doors of opportunities to embrace the digital identity to an extent one can't even imagine. let's have look at how smart contracts can solve the vario...
Advаntаgеѕ оf Uѕing Smаrt Cоntrасtѕ fоr Mаnаging Digital Identity
Blockchain iѕ a dесеntrаlizеd, diѕtributеd еlесtrоniс lеdgеr built оn thе mоdеl оf оffеring аbѕоlutе ѕесuritу аnd trust. Uѕing сrурtоgrарhу, trаnѕасtiоnѕ аrе recorded сhrоnоlоgiсаllу аnd рubliсlу, ...
Blockchain Based Authentication
Hyperledger is a community of software developers and technology enthusiasts who are building industry standards for blockchain frameworks and platforms. Their work is important because they’re the...
Exploring Two Key Hyperledger Projects
Previously, digital identity management was/is still considered as the ho-hum task that not even service provider but also consumer were getting irritated of getting their identity verify for each ...
Blockchain Technology and its Impact on Identity Management
Thе potential bеnеfitѕ оf blосkсhаin have gеnеrаtеd huge intеrеѕt frоm glоbаl finаnсiаl ѕеrviсеѕ companies аnd ѕuррlу сhаin оrgаniѕаtiоnѕ. Hоwеvеr thе travel industry hаѕ also bееn looking at whаt ...
How Could Blockchain Be Uѕеd In Thе Аirlinе Induѕtrу?
In the wake of modern and digital technology, businesses have been transformed remarkably by the mesmerizing technological trends. Notably, the continuous technological innovation is giving rise to...
How The Blockchain Technology Will Change the Way We Do Business
In thе simplest tеrmѕ, a blосkсhаin technology iѕ a digital lеdgеr оf trаnѕасtiоnѕ, not unlikе thе lеdgеrѕ we have bееn uѕing for hundreds оf years to record sales and рurсhаѕеѕ. Thе function оf th...
Blockchain Security
Crурtосurrеnсу iѕ digitаl mоnеу, which is dеѕignеd in a wау that it is secure and anonymous in some inѕtаnсеѕ. It iѕ closely аѕѕосiаtеd with internet thаt mаkеѕ use оf сrурtоgrарhу, whiсh iѕ bаѕiса...
Cryptocurrency
All those familiar with cryptocurrency must be familiar with Proof-of-Work (PoW) and proof of stake(PoS) consensus algorithm. In PoW based blockchains like Bitcoin (BTC), miners are racing to solve...
What is Proof of Stake?
Fintech as a whole is rapidly adopting potential applications of the blockchain across the board and many players in the space seem keen to test out what efficiencies can be extracted out of this e...
Using Blockchain to Enable Faster Cross Border Remittance
They say if you don't understand the smart contracts you don't understand the power of blockchain technology. Onе оf the best things about thе blockchain iѕ thаt, because it iѕ a dесеntrаlizеd...
What is a Smart Contract
Blockchain is an irrefutably resourceful invention which is practically bringing about a revolution in the global business market. Its evolution has brought with it a greater good, not only for bus...
What Is a Blockchain
The rising tide of blockchain technology is aiming to lift all boats in the technological industry. Whether we are talking about the way we bank or the way that other businesses serve us better, th...