Cyber Security

In the last twelve months, if you, your corporation or institution has not been victim of a cyber security attack, there can only be two reasons. Either you are complying with a comprehensive and user-friendly security strategy or you have simply been very lucky. By: Michael Armentrout, Regional Marketing Manager Infineon & FIDO Board Representative and Anasthasia Westphal, Product Marketing Manager Infineon & Member of th...

  On Tuesday 6th February at 3:45pm the world’s most powerful new space rocket took to the skies. Designed by SpaceX, CEO Elon Musk claims this could mark the end of the commercial spaceflight race. Is this true or is it simply the beginning? Named Falcon Heavy, the rocket flawlessly ascended from Florida into the heavens and is now in an orbit that stretches into the asteroid belt. 

  Announcing a sharpened strategy, which focuses on meeting the cyber security needs of midmarket companies and on continuing to accelerate its strong growth, F-Secure is including the elevation of new roles to its Leadership Team. 

CONTROP Precision Technologies has announced two major air safety projects. The company provided advanced flight safety measures at Israel’s Ben Gurion International Airport for bird, wildlife and drone early detection. In addition, the Dallas City Council has approved the purchase of this system for the Dallas Love Field Airport in Texas, with installation expected to take place in late 2018.

  Although the drone revolution in well underway globally in today’s industry, the association between drones and space is largely unreported. Drones may seem like a relatively new phenomenon, but in fact they have been roaming space for the last 60 years in the form of satellites.

  DroneShield has announced the release of its DroneGun Tactical product, available for purchase from to qualified end-users, where lawful. The release of DroneGun Tactical continues to establish DroneShield’s lead in the counterdrone space, following on the release of DroneGun MKII in late 2017.

  The Defence Secretary, Gavin Williamson, has warned Russia could cause 'thousands and thousands and thousands' of deaths in an attack on Britain’s energy supply. Williamson said Moscow had been looking at UK critical infrastructure such as power stations and links transferring electricity across borders. 

  Lynx Software Technologies has confirmed that both its ARM and Intel LynxSecure customers’ are protected from Meltdown, the infamous hardware vulnerability that has exposed almost every other operating system based computer system on the planet. LynxSecure is a true high assurance separation kernel virtualisation technology founded on a robust design.

Digital change has enormous strategic and operational opportunities, but also a wealth of challenges and dangers. Systems are being attacked almost daily by hackers. There are many measures needed to guard against attacks; one among them is getting the necessary know-how on board. Author: Henning Sander, Head of the Banking Business Unit, Hager

  The inaugural CISO Report has been published by Synopsys, the result of a two-year data-driven study exploring the roles of information security leaders and the organisational dynamics that affect them. The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Report identifies four approaches to the CISO role called 'tribes', each with distinct characteristics.