Security News > 2021 > June
This is why data integrity is an urgent business imperative, because digital transformation initiatives and business activities designed to set strategy, retain customers, and grow the business require trusted data to be successful. According to a research released by Precisely and Corinium Global Intelligence, 82 percent of C-level data executives say data quality concerns represent a barrier to data integration projects - the precursor to digital transformation initiatives and deriving insights to power sound business decisions.
SMS alone may not be secure, but mobile phone numbers tethered to a SIM card are: they're a unique pairing that is difficult to tamper with or copy. It is now possible to prevent fraud and fake accounts while seamlessly verifying mobile users using the most cryptographically secure identifier they already have - the SIM card embedded in their mobile devices.
Google on Monday announced new measures for the Play Store, including requiring developer accounts to turn on 2-Step Verification, provide an address, and verify their contact details later this year. The new identification and two-factor authentication requirements are a step towards strengthening account security and ensuring a safe and secure app marketplace, Google Play Trust and Safety team said.
MeasureOne announced its newly expanded consumer-permissioned data platform-as-a-service offering. Building on its expertise in bringing consumer-permissioned academic data, MeasureOne will now offer access to consumer-permissioned employment, income, and other consumer data types for any business that will benefit from a trusted, efficient and streamlined source for consumer information.
D-Link announces its latest private 5G network innovations, specifically designed for enterprises and SMBs, to address mounting critical IoT connectivity demands and drive new efficiencies in the current digital revolution known as Industry X.0. D-Link expands 5G to industrial IoT by offering 5G private networks to support massive IoT deployments and provide multi-gigabit speeds with virtually unlimited capacity for high bandwidth and low-latency services.
Mercury Systems announced the EnsembleSeries HDS6705 blade server, the embedded computing general-purpose processing 6U OpenVPX blade server with built-in security for the most demanding aerospace and defense applications. "We're putting an end to the industry assumption that embedded computing solutions can't provide both advanced security and high performance without compromising one or the other," said Joe Plunkett, vice president and general manager, Mercury Embedded.
Microsoft on Friday said it's investigating an incident wherein a driver signed by the company turned out to be a malicious Windows rootkit that was observed communicating with command-and-control servers located in China. The driver, called "Netfilter," is said to target gaming environments, specifically in the East Asian country, with the Redmond-based firm noting that "The actor's goal is to use the driver to spoof their geo-location to cheat the system and play from anywhere."
At its inaugural Global Partner Virtual Summit, Secure Code Warrior announced significant enhancements to its global partner program, as well as expanded integrations with leading DevSecOps vendors that extend its developer-centric approach to secure coding further into the global developer ecosystem. Pieter Danhieux, CEO and co-founder of Secure Code Warrior, said, "The Warrior Partner Program is a platform to maximise the potential of developer-centric security. By enabling partners to offer or integrate Secure Code Warrior as a core component of their DevSecOps or AppSec solution offerings, we can jointly reach more of the world's 25 million developers as they increase their software security skills."
Getac launched its next generation F110 fully rugged tablet featuring across the board improvements and innovations in processing speed, multi-tasking ability, high-level graphics and mapping capability, display brightness and daylight readability, mass storage operations, network connectivity, durability and ergonomics. "Professionals in vertical industries including manufacturing, automotive, public safety, utilities, transportation and logistics demand that upgraded models such as the next gen F110 deliver substantial improvements in speed, connectivity, graphics and other key performance elements right out of the box," Martin added.
Cloudify recently announced a collaboration with Amazon Web Services, Intel and Capgemini Engineering dedicated to streamlining transformation process of telcos and enterprises to public cloud based infrastructure using open source cloud native and DevOps based architecture - also known as an agile first approach. Cloudify's management and orchestration solution with its full integration to AWS services such as AWS CloudFormation, AWS CodePipeline, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon EKS - alongside its support to provision workloads and clusters on-premises such as AWS Outposts, or on Amazon EKS Anywhere - make it a great solution to support 5G network slicing use cases.