Security News > 2020 > January
"Europe has everything it takes to lead the technology race. Be it developing or deploying 5G technology - our industry is already well off the starting blocks. Today we are equipping EU Member States, telecoms operators and users with the tools to build and protect a European infrastructure with the highest security standards so we all fully benefit from the potential that 5G has to offer," said Thierry Breton, Commissioner for the Internal Market. As many critical services will depend on 5G, ensuring the security of networks is of highest strategic importance for the entire EU. Secure 5G networks: EU toolbox conclusions.
93 percent of total mobile transactions in 20 countries were blocked as fraudulent in 2019 according to a report on the state of malware and mobile ad fraud released by Upstream. In these five cases alone, 353 million suspicious mobile transactions were detected and blocked preventing $430 million in fraudulent charges.
The first all optical stealth encryption technology that will be significantly more secure and private for highly sensitive cloud-computing and data center network transmission, has been introduced by BGN Technologies. "Today, information is still encrypted using digital techniques, although most data is transmitted over distance using light spectrum on fiber optic networks," says Prof. Dan Sadot, Director of the Optical Communications Research Laboratory, who heads the team that developed the technology.
Kanguru Remote Management Console offers a robust solution for IT Security Admins looking to meet high-end security demands by allowing administrators to easily manage and monitor their encrypted USB devices containing sensitive data around the world. KRMC is ideal for protecting data, enabling administrators to set policies, disable or delete lost/stolen drives, track and monitor secure USB drives worldwide, generate reports, and much more.
Slice Labs, the first on-demand insurance platform, announced four new AI-powered Slice Mind services enabling insurers to more proactively and intelligently protect carriers, businesses, and consumers from risk. Insights gleaned from the Slice Mind services can serve as the foundation for new on-demand insurance products on the Slice Insurance Cloud Services platform that carriers can create to help customers avoid risk and celebrate good behavior.
MyDevices' No Dead Zone panic button technology eliminates the dead zone problem by combining cellular, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and LoRaWAN protocols to provide comprehensive coverage across the entire property no matter how challenging the physical environment. In particular, the integration of the LoRaWAN technology into the panic button solution makes it possible to send long range, low power, and low data bandwidth transmissions from hard to reach locations like underground, in concrete, or dense urban environments.
Keysight Technologies, a leading technology company that helps enterprises, service providers and governments accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world, announced a new PROPSIM channel emulation solution that enables the aerospace industry to efficiently verify radio links critical to satellite communications, earth observation, security surveillance, mapping and navigation. Keysight's new channel emulation capabilities address a rapidly expanding satellite market projected to generate more than $2B by 2030, according to a report published in July 2019 by BIS Research.
Semtech, a leading supplier of high performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductors and advanced algorithms, announced the release of its Asset Tracking Reference Kit to accelerate the adoption of asset tracking solutions based on LoRa devices and the LoRaWAN protocol, and facilitate the confirmation of the business value of such solutions. "For companies that need indoor presence detection and outdoor geolocation, the Semtech Asset Tracking Reference Kit illustrates how easily LoRaWAN private network coverage can be achieved in combination with geolocation," said Pierre Gelpí, Director of Vertical Marketing for Logistics Asset Tracking in Semtech's Wireless and Sensing Products Group.
Concentric announced the availability of a new approach to the most significant security challenge facing the enterprise today - business-critical unstructured data, stored on-premises or in the cloud, that is impossible to identify and protect manually. To combat this significant threat, Concentric is the first company to leverage deep learning capabilities to identify and autonomously quantify risk by developing an accurate and detailed semantic understanding of all data.
Univa, a leading innovator of enterprise-grade workload management and optimization solutions, announced the general availability of Navops Launch 2.0, its flagship cloud-automation platform, designed to help enterprises simplify the migration of HPC and AI workloads to their choice of cloud. The GA release helps enterprises easily extend HPC workloads to the cloud, boosting efficiency and productivity, and dramatically improving cloud ROI while reducing cloud-related spending by 30-40 percent.