Tag: software

January 9, 2019

January 28 is Data Privacy Day! Thanks to Europe’s GDPR we are all thinking data privacy these days. GDPR is the general data protection regulation It is an EU law on data protection and privacy for all individuals within the […]

January 4, 2019

Opensource software has been around since the 1950s with most of the software written by universities and shared in the public domain. (Wikipedia, n.d.) Development and consumption of opensource software has fluctuated over the past 70 years or so. In […]

November 28, 2018

HPE is offering new Edgeline Converged Edge System hardware and software designed to let enterprises not only control machines in their facilities, but also manage and analyze the sea of data generated by devices and sensors at the edge network. […]

November 20, 2018

Verizon acquired the PrecisionAccess solution and other Software Defined Perimeter (SDP) related assets from privately held Vidder, a company offering trusted and unified access control. Terms of the transaction were not announced. Vidder’s advanced technology is already integrated into Verizon’s […]

November 12, 2018

At the Vision expo in Stuttgart, Germany, Sony’s Imaging & Sensing Solutions division (ISS) showcased its latest ranges of cameras for medical and surveillance apps, embedded vision-friendly systems, polarizing cameras and augmented reality solution known as Mitene. Arnaud Destruels, Marketing […]

November 2, 2018

If you bumped into me on the street, you would probably not guess that I am a cyber security professional. I am, one might say, well-seasoned. Given my history of chasing bad actors who were attacking my mainframe, some may […]

October 12, 2018

So far, so good. That’s the report from Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) as it rolled out the first-ever changing of the cryptographic key that helps protect the internet’s address book – the Domain Name System (DNS) […]

September 21, 2018

There is simply no avoiding it. Every business, regardless of size or type, has entered into “shrink-wrap” or “click-wrap” agreements (i.e., non-negotiable agreements provided with various types of software and cloud services). In most instances, even small organizations are bound […]

August 27, 2018

Traditionally, security was about cost avoidance. It was thought of like insurance – something you have to have in case something bad happens, but not something that would boost the bottom line or attract customers. But in today’s environment, we […]

August 20, 2018

When I started working on computer security, organizations that worried about security were concerned about the security of software that they created themselves and shipped to their customers. Today, a lot has changed – many (most?) organizations that deliver software […]