Security

As people, technologists, and organisations, we have a wealth of technology and connectivity at our fingertips. This has clear benefits for how we live and work, offering greater flexibility, productivity, and scalability for businesses. Sadly, cyber-criminals also have great opportunities to strike. And when they do, their actions not only impact the targeted person or organisation, but their customers and wider stakeholders too.

At Hannover Messe, Germany, BlackBerry released the 'BlackBerry Manufacturing Cybersecurity Study' with a warning that outdated and unsupported legacy operational technologies (OT) are exposing substantial vulnerabilities for UK manufacturers facing escalating threats from nation-state attacks.

The endpoint protection platforms (EPP) market is predicted to be worth $3,980 million in 2023 and rise to $10,323.09 million by 2033. Initially, the global market was expanding at a CAGR of 7.9% from 2018 to 2022.

Thales announced the release of 2023 Thales Data Threat Report, its annual report on the latest data security threats, trends and emerging topics based on a survey of nearly 3000 IT and security professionals in 18 countries.

Thales’ HELIXVIEW is a new C3-compliant Cabin Baggage Explosive Detection System (EDS CB) that is set to revolutionise airport security with its X-ray nanotechnology-based electronic scanning and 3D imaging reconstruction. It is set to land its certification by the end of 2023.

IAR is announcing the launch of IAR Embedded Secure IP, enabling developers to add embedded security to their firmware applications even at a late stage of the product life cycle.

ChatGPT has been at the forefront of many minds since its release last year, and for good reason. The AI-driven natural language processing tool has already been used by underground hacking communities to discover how it can help facilitate cyber attacks and support malicious operations.

Biometrics company, Fingerprints, has announced it has now shipped more than one million of its T-Shape FPC1300 series flagship products to customers in the biometric payment card industry.

With the ever-developing cyber threat landscape and increasingly demanding consumer expectations, balancing cyber security and customer experience needs can be very challenging for an organisation.

Acronis has announced the enhancement of its security defence against advanced fileless attacks using Intel Threat Detection Technology (Intel TDT) leveraging the Intel integrated GPU to offload memory scanning operations from the CPU.