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The Global IT Crisis and Third Party Vulnerabilities

This week’s global IT crisis affecting businesses around the world should be a wake up call to us all.  DMA requirements for mandatory third party access to the operating system will make personal smartphones and tablets vulnerable to new and currently unimaginable emerging threats.

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Jim Kohlenberger: How Europe Can Harness Innovation as a Springboard to Recovery and Prosperity

At a time when Europe’s economy unceremoniously achieved zero growth in the final quarter of 2023, how Europe chooses to respond in this moment could be one of the biggest, most consequential decisions shaping its long-term future. To lift its stagnating economy and expand prosperity, Europe needs to harness a proven and powerful growth engine — technology-enabled economic growth.

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Taking spyware and other mobile threats seriously

Last March, in the forward to the White House Cybersecurity strategy, the President wrote, “[W]hen we pick up our smart phones to keep in touch with loved ones, log on to social media to share our ideas with one another, or connect to the Internet to run a business, we need the ability to trust that the underlying digital ecosystem is safe, reliable, and secure.”

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Adam Golodner: Is the European Commission cyber serious—and are executives tracking the cyber future?

Executives and boards today must pay attention to global public policies and act to protect their interests, customers, and trust in their brand. Proposed laws or policies that seem to be far-afield often carry provisions that can cut to the heart of your ability to drive innovation, security, and markets. It is vital to systematize a process of staying ahead of the public-policy curve.

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Jim Kohlenberger: Mobilizing a Connected Technology Moonshot To Accelerate Climate Progress

At a time when surging temperatures led to the hottest year on record, leaders around the globe are searching for new and innovative ways to accelerate climate progress further. One of the most promising, but often overlooked tools, involves accelerating the revolutionary potential of emerging connected devices and the digital transformation they enable — creating new smarter, cleaner, and greener ways to tackle our climate challenges.

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James Lamond: In Promoting Cybersecurity, Everyone Has A Role

Technology today is changing at a near-breakneck pace. There are exciting new developments constantly taking place, with the potential to improve lives and tackle some of the biggest challenges we face. But bad actors are also innovating and thinking of new ways to exploit an increasingly connected world. In this new environment, everyone has a responsibility to help protect the security, safety and privacy of users.

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DMA: To Preserve Robust Mobile Security, Policymakers Should Heed the Important Security Lessons From the ActiveX Era of the Internet

We’ve previously explained the many challenges European regulators face in implementing the Digital Markets Act (DMA), especially as it relates to the security consequences of downloading mobile apps from untrusted sources. In this piece, we go deeper to examine lessons from a similar well-meaning approach and architecture from the 1990’s — a technology framework called ActiveX that enabled software applications to be downloaded from third-party sources to bridge the gap that separated web pages from Microsoft’s operating system.

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