Category: Business Technology

• Why Restaurants Often Pay Less in Credit Card Processing Fees with Stripe Than Toast

  The processing fees of Stripe and Toast vary significantly based on ticket size and transaction types. Stripe generally offers lower costs, especially with online transactions, while Toast may be competitive only at high ticket sizes with in-person sales. PieConnect aims to integrate Stripe’s processing with comprehensive restaurant management tools.

  Sankaran G.

  May 3, 2025

  Business Technology, Fintech

  business, digital-marketing, finance, marketing, technology

• Why AI Is Not The Solution for Autonomous Driving (FSD)

  The hype surrounding AI-based Autonomous Driving or Full Self-Driving (FSD) has, to some extent, created unrealistic expectations. The crux of the issue lies in AI’s probabilistic, non-guaranteed behavior, which fundamentally complicates the development and validation of FSD systems. The uncertainty inherent in AI-based decision-making means we are attempting to address a relatively straightforward human driving…

  Sankaran G.

  June 18, 2024

  AI, autonomous driving, Business Technology, Robotaxis

  AI, autonomous driving, autonomous vehicle, autopilot, catastrophic forgetting, ChatGPT, computer vision, elon-musk, ev, FSD, generative AI, neural network, news, NHTSA, Nvidia, Robotaxi, SAE J3016, safety standard, technology, tesla, V2I, V2V, waymo

• Passwordless Authentication Makes Phishing Obsolete

  Half a century-old password authentication remains vulnerable to social engineering attacks, particularly phishing. In fact, phishing is the top attack vector in most ransomware attacks. Cybercriminals can guess, phish, or harvest a password and use it to replay it. Password-based authentication systems have evolved over the years. Today, they augment with safeguarding mechanisms such as…

  Sankaran G.

  October 24, 2022

  Business Technology, Cybersecurity, Network Security

  cryptographic login credentials, FIDO, FIDO2, FIPS 140-2, MFA, multi-factor authentication, OAuth2, passkey, passkeys, passwordless authentication, phishing attack, phishing resistant, ransomware, Ransomware Defense, ransomware prevention, social engineering, SSO, U2F, Universal 2nd Factor Protocol, WebAuthn

• A Real Air Gap Defense Against Today’s Ransomware Attacks

  Today’s ransomware attacks are more sophisticated and often spread through unpredictable attack vectors. So, there is no silver bullet for avoiding such attacks in a complex IT environment with remote working and outsourced service providers in the mix. But it is relatively easy to detect ransomware early in the kill chain. After the initial attack…

  Sankaran G.

  April 25, 2022

  Business Technology, Cybersecurity, Network Security, Ransomware Defense

  air gap, air gap strategy, air gapped backup, Backup and Recovery, cyber attack, Cybersecurity, Echola System fiber-cut switch, FFIEC, Immutable backup, malware, NAS cluster, Network Detection and Response, ransomware attacks, Ransomware Defense, ransomware defense strategy, VFC2011