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Despite the Chanhassen Planning Commission’s recommendation to approve a development application for Cafe Zupas, at its June 26 meeting, the City Council instead voted to table the item.

IBM has bought a startup founded by a longtime security leader in the Israeli Prime Minister's Office to ensure personal identifiable information isn't left

IBM has bought a startup founded by a longtime security leader in the Israeli Prime Minister's Office to ensure personal identifiable information isn't left

The City of Hastings Economic Development and Redevelopment Authority (HEDRA) has announced a second round of funding for the Façade Improvement Program, which helps property owners that wish to make

IBM Explores the Future of Cryptography Few businesses would argue that their IT systems wouldn’t benefit from additional security measures, particularly in the wake of last year’s major cyberattack against the US government and other institutions via flaws in popular security and cloud services. The question surrounding security enhancements, encryption in particular, has always been: at what cost? Not just cost in terms of the money needed to develop or implement better security and hir...

Confidential computing IBM has been working on confidential computing for roughly a decade. The concept behind the technology is to permit clients to retain full privacy and control over data and operational workloads through hardware-level security.  This can include the implementation of "secure enclaves" -- trusted execution environments -- which can manage data and are only accessible through authorized programming code, keeping information away not only from cloud or infrastructure provi...

IBM This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. IBM launched new support for homomorphic encryption (HE) on Thursday — widely seen as the data-protection standard of the future, but one thats been difficult for companies to adopt. IBM is now offering companies consulting services, a place to prototype online, and IT support around the standard. The process protects data w...

The outside facade of IBM Research - Africa in Johannesburg, South Africa, inspired by old punch cards used for programming computers in the early 1900s. The tech giant announced Dec. 17 offerings to support widespread adoption of homomorphic encryption. (IBM Research/CC BY-ND 2.0) It’s time to take fully homomorphic encryption seriously, according to Eric Maass, director of strategy and emerging technology at IBM Security Services.   Maass spoke to SC Media in a...