Accenture Says It Can Make Blockchain Applications More Reliable and Secure
Accenture Plc, a professional services firm, recently stated it can help make blockchain applications safer, and speed up their deployment in specific sectors, such as the financial one. The company recently unveiled a system in which users would rely on hardware security modules (HSM) to secure their data. Blockchain technology has been tested by a wide variety of companies, including several financial institutions, such as India’s central bank. These, according to the report, want to bring the prototypes they tested onto the real world, but don’t see digital wallets as sufficiently....
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