Fighting a Crisis with Better Data
The year 2020 gave the world a global crisis - a pandemic caused by a new coronavirus strain named SARS-CoV-2 or COVID-19. The world turned to defeat this crisis with a novel toolkit - data-driven services.
Key highlights:
• clustering solution for monitoring;
• e-mail notification option for monitoring issues;
• more secure monitoring.
Information may be a valuable asset. Do you remember the movie “1917” where Lance Corporal William Schofield takes an incredibly dangerous journey through the front to deliver a message that helps saving thousands of lives? Or, in present context, if your company would be the first one to figure out the correct way to produce COVID-19 vaccine, this information would be of high value, indeed.
Government requires a mix of policy, management, and technology capabilities to create interoperability (Pardo & Burke, 2008a, pg.3).
Key highlights of these changes are:
• support for long cryptographic keys;
• implementation of elliptic curve cryptography;
• security by default.
It is a common belief that quantum computers will pose a security risk to current public key cryptography schemes in use, including remote electronic voting systems. This is mostly because most known online voting protocols make use of cryptosystems that are based on discrete logarithm or factoring problem which are hard for classical computers, but not quantum computers. Although, current quantum computers aren’t complex enough to run these kinds of attacks yet, in a few decades they will be. Thus, there is a good reason to worry about the ballot’s privacy already now.
The world particularly in these unusual times talks all about remote work and jokes about how the coronavirus is actually their digital transformation trigger. In fact, McKinsey writes that about 70 percent of executives from Austria, Germany and Switzerland state, that the current crisis is accelerating their quest for digital transformation.
While the world is on lockdown and we’re all seeing some of the disruptions that a remote life, confined to the digital realm can bring, it seemed appropriate to share some insight into how creating a digital identity for our citizens can limit some of these difficulties.
Being a technology provider, there is a risk of sounding biased when talking about the right technology for digital identity solutions, but I’m not here to just say, “our technology is the right technology”. I want to raise points that should be considered when deciding which technology is right for the kind of service being implemented and the particular user-base it’s aimed at.
While the world is on lockdown and we’re all seeing some of the disruptions that a remote life, confined to the digital realm can bring, it seemed appropriate to share some insight into how creating a digital identity for our citizens can limit some of these difficulties.
