When telco developers get on board to create applications, they often find themselves looking at ‘most used’ or ‘top rated’ applications, prior to creating their own. While this is ideal for those starting out with application development, it is also equally important to look into applications that are applicable in a localized context. What Ruwan…
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The unique number of mobile phone users around the world has grown almost by 2% compared to 2020 (Datareportal.com, 2021), and to further increase at the end of 2021. This phenomenon suggests that the use of mobile-related services to be boosted in the coming years. As a result of the high demand, the operators…
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The global mobile transaction value shows a 200% growth since the year 2017 as the total mobile money value processed per day reached over $2 billion in the year 2020 compared to 2017 and shows prominent signs of increasing further in the year 2022 [1]. The obvious fact for this is that the Covid-19 pandemic…
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The benchmarks developed by the Center for Internet Security (CIS) are a set of best-practice cybersecurity standards for several IT systems and products. The baseline settings provided by CIS Benchmarks assure compliance with industry-agreed cybersecurity standards. The standards were created by CIS in collaboration with business and research institute communities of cybersecurity specialists. The CIS…
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The condition of being in compliance with set norms or specifications, or the act of becoming so, is known as compliance. For example, the software may be built in accordance with standards defined by a standard body and subsequently deployed by user organizations in accordance with a vendor’s license agreement. Compliance may also refer to…
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology is an acronym for the NIST which is a non-regulatory government organization tasked with promoting economic competitiveness and driving innovation in the domains of science and technology. As NIST develops standards for best practices, the government has advised businesses and organizations to adopt them. Compliance includes adhering to NIST requirements…
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