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Trenton Systems has partnered with cybersecurity solutions company FUTURA Cyber to provide customers with access control security management for FIPS 140-2 self-encrypting drives. "FUTURA Cyber is led by people with an unparalleled depth and experience in cybersecurity, software, and systems engineering," said Sean Campbell, Vice President of Sales, Marketing, and Business Development at Trenton Systems.

Zoom has finally added what it says is end-to-end encryption to its video conferencing service at no additional cost for all users, whether they are paying subscribers or not. "We're very proud to bring Zoom's new end-to-end encryption to Zoom users globally today," said Zoom CISO Jason Lee.

Ubiq Security announced the launch of its API-based encryption platform for developers. Ubiq has eliminated the traditional complexities of encryption, allowing developers and information security teams - even those without encryption or cryptography expertise - to integrate data encryption directly into applications in minutes, with nothing more than a few lines of code and two API calls.

The embrace of remote collaboration, and specifically video collaboration, has been swift and robust. While uncertainty remains on what exactly a post-pandemic working experience will look like, it is without a doubt that video will remain a fundamental part of the collaboration tool kit.

Encryption is vital to protecting people's use of data, it says, alongside human rights activists in repressive regimes, journalists researching corruption, and all those good things. You cannot make an encryption system insecure without making it insecure.

The US Department of Justice, together with government representatives from six other countries, has recently re-ignited the perennial Battle to Break Encryption. Modern encryption schemes don't just encrypt network traffic with your long-term encryption keys, but add in what are known as ephemeral keys into the mix - one-time encryption secrets for each communication session that are discarded after use.

Video-conferencing giant Zoom is rolling out a technical preview of its end-to-end encryption next week. Zoom has faced various controversies around its encryption policies over the past year, including several lawsuits alleging that the company falsely told users that it offers full encryption.

Starting next week, Zoom users - both those who are on one of the paid plans and those who use it for free - will be able to try out the solution's new end-to-end encryption option. Must join from the Zoom desktop client, mobile app, or Zoom Rooms.

Video conferencing platform Zoom next week will start rolling out end-to-end encryption in technical preview. "We're excited to announce that starting next week, Zoom's end-to-end encryption offering will be available as a technical preview, which means we're proactively soliciting feedback from users for the first 30 days," the company said earlier this week.