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The Latest Chapter In IBM’s Quest To Build A Cloud For Banks

Yesterday, IBM announced the latest chapter in the IBM Cloud for Financial Services, a public cloud capable of overcoming the stringent cybersecurity and regulatory challenges for a bank.

[via Forbes]

Bitcoin & Blockchain Gain Prominence: 4 Top Stocks to Buy…Ok, forget the link bait about the stocks to buy and just read this article for the sense of the built-in utility of blockchain.

Blockchain is enabling enterprises and government agencies to tackle prominent issues, including data tracing, security, visibility and management, and supply chain supervision.

[via Yahoo! Finance]

Also, in more IBM news…IBM bets on FHE (Fully Homomorphic Encryption) as cloud adoption continues to become a norm for many end-users.

First, some context. There are three general categories of encryption. The two classic ones are encryption for when data is at rest or stored and then “data in transit” that protects the confidentiality of data as it’s being transmitted over a network.

The third one is the piece that has been missing: the ability to compute on that data while it’s still encrypted.

That last one is key to unlocking all sorts of new use cases. That’s because until now, for someone to process that data, it would have to be unencrypted, which creates a window of vulnerability. That makes companies reluctant to share highly sensitive data involving finance or health.

via VentureBeat

[via Venture Beat]