Intelligent automation is making impacts across technology markets. And due to an enormous labor shortage in one of those markets—cybersecurity—automation has become incredibly important.
As I sit here in the airport lounge at Philadelphia International Airport, I'm thinking about the security checks I’m ever so familiar with these days.
Cyber attacks steal data and cost victims millions of dollars in penalties. It can even devastate an organization’s reputation. Cybersecurity protocols and practices help companies defend sensitive information against these kinds of attacks.
Financial technology, aka fintech, recently experienced its first wave of growth and adoption in the United States, where it’s fast becoming integral to financial services companies’ operations.
Fintech that facilitates financial inclusion may be one of the more altruistic applications of fintech. In truth, many banks and fintechs are looking at financially excluded demographics as a potential windfall.