The proposed data protection regulation has stirred up controversy because of the implications for businesses and an increase in potential fines. An updated law that takes the increasing challenges of data security into account is long overdue but will the potential benefits of the new regulation outweigh the perceived burdens?
The US patent office has issued a patent for HTS License Plate Recognition OCR systems
HTS is considered one of the pioneers in the development and commercialization of OCR systems
Rishon LeZion, Israel: HTS, a leader in the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and computer vision systems market, has announced that the US Patent and Trademark Office has awarded the company a patent for its License Plate Character Recognition Systems.
London, UK: Commenting on an Ernst & Young report that concludes many companies are only making incremental changes to their security platforms – and not looking at the bigger picture – the organisers of Infosecurity Europe say that the pressure is clearly now on IT security professionals to do more with less.
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On almost a daily basis the media share stories of confidential information being disposed of in park bins, laptops being found in taxis and passwords being published on the internet. While this is undoubtedly concerning, the findings from a global security study on data leakage have revealed that the data loss resulting from employee behaviour poses a much more extensive threat than many IT professionals believe.
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