The IT industry’s credo on password security has been that multifactor authentication (MFA) will protect against all attacks. However, in reality, MFA can only protect a user who has it enabled if they’ve taken the proper steps to ensure their password is secure as well. In 2019, Microsoft said 300 million cyberattacks take place each […]
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Payroll fraud isn’t new; it’s actually been occurring for decades. It is commonly seen where corruption is rife, higher-ups look the other way, and robust technology, like biometric identification and verification, isn’t used to reduce these illegal practices. A few African nations are still facing these issues continuously. Several public employees indeed continue to receive […]
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Even before COVID-19, the digital revolution created a need for more comfortable and suitable work environments. The pandemic made firms rethink their security and privacy policies and adopt more complex solutions that were flexible enough to handle the constantly changing nature of work. In a world where more and more employees are working from home […]
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Yemen has been facing problems with inaccurate voter registries due to duplicate, minor, and “ghost” voters. Thus, Yemen’s Supreme Commission for Elections and Referendum (SCER) was on the lookout for a robust and effective voter registration system to mitigate the problems with their voter registry for their upcoming parliamentary and local elections, in collaboration with […]
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Biometric technology is being used more and more in the public sector all over the world. In many places, pensioners who are part of an employee pension plan can now turn in their biometric information to renew their life certificates. The people in charge of giving out pensions need to check every so often to […]
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For thousands of years, Yemen has played a crucial part in the mighty kingdoms and dynasties that left their imprints on the Arabian Peninsula and Africa. Even though Yemen was officially reunified in 1990 and peace negotiations have been going on since 2016, the country’s government, economy, and people are all in shambles due to […]
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Despite countless warnings and measures to safeguard customers, identity theft in South Africa continues to escalate. According to reports, someone’s identity is stolen every two seconds somewhere in the globe. According to recent figures from the National Council on Identity Theft Protection in the United States, identity theft would cost Americans about $6 billion in […]
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The Democratic Republic of the Congo will spend more than $70 million on a centralized, automated criminal biometric identification system (ABIS) as part of a new public-private partnership (PPP) arrangement. It will be used by the government of the DRC to issue “certificates of integrity” (sometimes called “certificates of non-criminal record”) to its people. An […]
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According to the local news sources, the planned national identification card and digital identity register project will cost around 8 million Cayman Islands Dollars (roughly US $9.6 million) over five years with the largest costs being data security. Deputy Chief Officer Charles Brown and Minister of Innovation André Ebanks said that the national ID register […]
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Fortunately, technology is finally seeping into governments around the world. However, while most developed countries have been using eGovernment solutions for quite some time, many developing countries are only starting to understand the importance and benefits of these solutions. If developing countries use robust and highly configurable eGovernance solutions right from the start, they can […]
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