Security News

Everbridge and WizNucleus partner to increase digital and physical security for the energy industry
2021-06-10 23:30

Everbridge and WizNucleus announced a partnership to increase digital and physical security for some of the world's largest nuclear, electric, and other utility companies. Through the partnership, WizNucleus customers gain seamless access to Everbridge's CEM solutions, including Control Center, helping increase preparedness for a wide range of digital and physical threats.

"IT burden" and cybersecurity "trade-offs" take center stage in a new digital collaboration survey
2021-06-08 08:00

On Tuesday, software company AvePoint released the results of a U.K. survey identifying the virtual collaboration challenges, IT burden and more. Virtually all respondents companies believe "They are compliant with internal and external regulations" and few "Lacked confidence that their digital collaboration deployment was secure from data leaks and unauthorised access," according to the release.

EY collaborates with SAP to help drive clients’ digital transformation
2021-06-06 23:00

EY announced a collaboration with SAP on the innovation of industry cloud solutions, including insurance, banking, life sciences and energy and resources, to help drive clients' digital transformation. These EY solutions for SAP's industry cloud combine EY experience and knowledge in these four industries with EY industry-specific IP and integrated technology solutions.

Resecurity enables enterprises to perform digital risk evaluation of third parties
2021-06-03 00:30

Resecurity has introduced a new feature enabling enterprises, defense, and government agencies to perform digital risk evaluation of third parties, including but not limited to vendors, partners, contractors, and other entities involved in the supply chain ecosystem. "Third-parties in the supply chain pose the major cybersecurity threats," President Biden stated, referring to the order as a "Significant risk management mandate."

Hacker forum contest gives $100K for new ways to steal digital assets
2021-06-02 16:53

The administrator of a Russian-speaking cybercriminal forum has held a contest for the community to share uncommon methods to target cryptocurrency-related technology. Members of the forum had one month to submit their papers and enter a competition that promised more than $100,000 in prizes.

Ericsson Private 5G drives Industry 4.0 and the digital transformation of industrial sectors
2021-06-02 01:00

Ericsson has launched Ericsson Private 5G. It offers secure and simple 4G LTE and 5G Standalone connectivity primarily targeting - but not limited to - manufacturing, mining and process industry, offshore and power utilities, as well as ports and airports. Ericsson Private 5G optimizes and simplifies business operations with cloud-based network management, keeps sensitive data on-premise, has zero downtime upgrades and guarantees high performance through Service-Level Agreements.

Western Digital UFS 3.1 enables storage for new apps in mobile, automotive and IoT industries
2021-05-30 00:30

Western Digital announced its new embedded flash platform for Universal Flash Storage 3.1 to enable new applications in mobile, automotive, IoT, AR/VR, drones and other emerging segments that are reshaping the way we live, work and play. In an increasingly mobile world of always on, always connected and always available, Western Digital's unique UFS 3.1 platform, based on the JEDEC-compliant UFS 3.1 specification, provides the speed, reliability and feature versatility that customers count on to build small, thin and lightweight solutions.

China's Digital Yuan not aimed at challenging US dollar, says former People’s Bank governor
2021-05-25 05:59

A former governor of the People's Bank of China has given a speech in which he suggested that China's Digital Yuan is not intended to increase China's influence over global financial systems. An unauthorised translation of the speech by Chinese journalist Zichen Wang reports that Zhou said China's digital currency "Is mainly targeted on the modernization of the domestic payment system, keeping pace with the digital economy and the Internet era, improving efficiency, and reducing costs, especially for the retail payment system".

Cellebrite Pathfinder enables investigative units to process digital data
2021-05-20 01:15

Cellebrite launched the latest version of Cellebrite Pathfinder, its flagship investigative analytics solution achieving significant milestones in data analysis, enterprise readiness, scalability and process performance. Pathfinder uses AI and machine learning to enable investigative units to process digital data efficiently and effectively with advanced filtering, categorization, tagging and analyzing capabilities.

Western Digital expands Purple Pro product line for growing AI-enabled workloads
2021-05-19 23:00

Empowering the world's essential data infrastructure, Western Digital announced the expansion of the WD Purple family with the WD Purple Pro product line for a new generation of advanced AI-enabled recorders and back-end servers. The new WD Purple Pro line is designed to handle these workloads with optimized storage performance, capacity, workload capability and reliability for a myriad of devices, including AI-enabled network video recorders, video analytics servers, storage arrays and storage/server solutions, including those that perform deep-learning analytics.