Cyber Security

In today’s digital economy, it is essential that companies of every size can collect, store and adequately protect customer data and proprietary secrets. Failure to do so will significantly damage a company’s brand and reduce the quality of the product it produces, with concomitant impact on revenues and profitability, according to GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.

Availability of a range of expert data security products to help companies comply with the European Union’s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been announced by RS Components. These include products from 3M, Kingston Technology and the company’s own RS Pro range.

Though consumer-level drones have received a lot of bad press in recent times - near misses with aircraft, incidents where members of the public have been injured and flying contraband into prisons - within the defence sector, the high end versions of this technology has the potential to save lives.  By Giorgio Potenza, Strategic Market Manager for High-Rel Systems, Harwin.

The security of data has been a hot topic in recent months. The EU’s roll-out of new GDPR regulations, the Cambridge Analytica scandal, or the seemingly weekly revelations of financial institutions or consumer service providers which have had their databases hacked, are all examples most of us will be aware of. Author: Arturo Maqueo, Regional Sales Engineering Director LATAM, Flexenclosure

A solution designed to reduce cyber security risk across today’s converged IT/OT environments has been announced by Tenable. Enhancements to the Tenable.io platform, an asset discovery and vulnerability detection solution for Operational Technology (OT) systems, delivered in partnership with Siemens, enables organisations to manage cyber exposure across IT and OT and effectively prioritise remediation based on the criticality of the asset a...

Security perimeters are no longer enough to protect organisations from targeted attacks and given the ongoing shortage of skilled cyber security experts, developing better security capabilities on their own is out of reach for many organisations.

An agreement has been signed by F-Secure to acquire all the outstanding shares of MWR InfoSecurity, a cyber security company. The acquisition is a milestone in the execution of F-Secure’s growth strategy, and makes it a large European single source of cyber security services and detection and response solutions.

With the introduction of an end-to-end security solution which protects the entire ecosystem, Gemalto is strengthening trust in the smart energy sector. Deployed by smart meter makers and distribution systems operators, the offer provides connectivity solutions, secure digital identities and security lifecycle management for the long life of smart meters, as threats and stakeholders evolve over time. The solution protects connected energy assets ...

A chip, released by the semiconductor manufacturer STMicroelectronics, has brought together the latest digital security techniques in a single chip to protect smart things and networks including those for utility infrastructure against cyber threats.

In 1982, long before a cyber security threat to control system networks was widely recognised, a Trojan horse attack on control system software reportedly caused a huge explosion in a Siberian gas pipeline. Even now, many systems that have been retrofitted for compatibility with the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) are not well protected.