Japan Touts Adjustable Crypto for IoT, Cloud
Japanese engineers claimed to have developed the first secure "cryptoprocessor" able to adjust security levels on the fly without first upgrading the device itself. Previously, the researchers noted, encryption ...Full Article
Survey: Security Risks Soar Along With Cloud Workloads
The shift from traditional datacenters to cloud infrastructure is exponentially expanding server workloads, thereby increasing enterprises' "attackable surface area" and, with it, security risks, a new vendor survey warns. ...Full Article
Blockchain VC Funding Grows With Deployments
Blockchain and other "crypto-currency" technologies are gathering momentum as investors continue to pour money into digital transaction approaches while banks shift from pilot projects to production deployments. According to ...Full Article
IT Security Shifts From Reactive to Proactive
With security threats growing more sophisticated, the market for information security products is expected to boom over the next five years, led by security testing, IT outsourcing and data ...Full Article
SIEM Gains as Consumer Security Software Fades
Security information and event management (SIEM) software fueled a robust global security software market in 2015 even as sales of consumer security software declined sharply last year, according to ...Full Article
NSA Looks to IT Industry to Harden Vulnerable U.S. Nets
U.S. intelligence agencies, including the National Security Agency, are increasingly turning to commercial solutions in their efforts to head off the alarming number of cyber attacks that culminated in ...Full Article
Researchers Endorse ‘Quantum-Safe’ Cloud Security
With cyber attacks on IT infrastructure growing more sophisticated and costly by the day, researchers are looking for new ways to stay ahead of hackers by strengthening encryption. Among ...Full Article
Machine Learning Leveraged to Spot Ransomware
Everyone seemingly is complaining about the spread of ransomware, and now somebody is trying to do something about it using machine learning-based behavioral analytics techniques to track suspicious behavior ...Full Article
Protection in the ‘Data Path’ for Security across Hybrid Environments
Bracket Computing, the hot, highly funded hybrid cloud security platform company, today announced extensions to its “Computing Cell” cloud workload protection platform, a container-like “bubble” that enables “fluid” data ...Full Article
Security Concerns Easing For Cloud Deployment
Promoters of software-defined datacenters insist this is year that the IT strategy gains traction and, according to one upbeat survey, becomes a fixture in U.S. enterprises. A key reason ...Full Article