Security

Data security is the biggest challenge to the $3 trillion artificial intelligence of things (AIoT) market, according to new research from XMOS. Nearly half (45%) of the electronics engineers surveyed believe that data security and autonomy present the biggest risks to the AIoT revolution more than bandwidth (38%), latency (32%), scalability (24%) and cloud infrastructure limitations (24%).

Two of the world’s largest tech giants, Apple and Google, recently announced that they are collaborating on a COVID-19 tracking system to enable contact tracing - a measure that could pave the way for an exit strategyand look into data privacy threats for those countries enforcing stringent lockdown measures. By Angel Pateiro, CTO and Co-founder of Finboot & Yasmine Benjelloun Content creator at Finboot

Business tool Zoom has seen a 20-fold increase in users recently, as COVID-19 forces millions to work from home. However, reported problems with privacy and security have sparked concern about using video conferencing tools amongst governments and businesses worldwide.

One Identity has announced a partnership with HashiCorp. With the integration of One Identity’s privileged access management (PAM) Safeguard for Privileged Sessions, HashiCorp Vault users can now securely manage, monitor, record, and audit privileged and administrative access to their vaulted tokens, passwords, certificates, API keys and other secrets used in DevOps workflows.

Efficient data management with blockchain has long been a cornerstone for any organisation and a way to generate valuable insights that can improve the corporate decision-making process. In the past few years, the focus on big data has resulted in an exponential increase in data volumes, sources and types. By Juan Miguel Pérez, CEO and Co-founder of Finboot & Yasmine Benjelloun Content Creator at Finboot

In a world where we are arguably more connected than ever, there are so many different cyber security solutions and potential threats. NanoLock Security is one solution that offers powerful, device-level protection from insider, outsider and supply chain attacks. NanoLock’s always-on protection stops attacks even when the network or device is hacked or the attacker has physical access to the device. Whilst using virtually zero computing or ...

Digitisation and the increasing connectivity provided by the Internet of Things (IoT) bring enormous opportunities, but also unforeseeable risks and serious vulnerabilities that can be exploited by new forms of cyber crime. Joe Lomako, Business Development Manager (IoT) at TÜV SÜD, explains the link between cyber security and the IoT.

According to data compiled and analysed by Atlas VPN, hackers attacked businesses more than 22 million times during the last week worldwide. Over 63% of these hacking attempts were malware attacks.

Motorists concerned by the rise in the theft of cars with keyless car entry systems can sleep easier from this week as Ganvol launches its keyless key fob protector. This Ganvol Faraday Box S1 is a fob protector and signal blocker to stop car thieves in their tracks, manufactured to high precision from the same grade aluminium used to make high end laptops.

UltraSoC and Agile Analog have announced a collaboration that aims to deliver the industry’s most comprehensive hardware-based cyber security infrastructure by combining UltraSoC’s embedded on-chip analytics with Agile Analog’s advanced on-chip analogue monitoring IP, in order to detect physical cyber attacks.