PKI Blog

Congratulations, you’ve chosen ThingWorx to launch and manage your IoT devices, applications and data. Your goals are clear, your code has been tested and the connections are ready to engage. Unfortunately, you’ve forgotten a critical component that will sadly cause your entire project to fail.

Added layers of security, specifically unique device key authentication.

Cyber Threats to Aerospace and Defense

 Cyber Threat Conditions in Aerospace and Defense  

As one can imagine, the aerospace and defense industry is full of highly sensitive data. When you consider their primary customers, namely the federal government and federal space programs, it’s no surprise that the kind of information commonly transmitted is extremely classified by nature.

Evolving Challenges of Cyber Security in Telecommunications

The Telecom Threat Environment

For the telecommunications sector, staying up-to-speed with information security challenges is a constant battle. Telecom organizations are expanding their reach and transforming into full-blown technology companies. Such a complex ecosystem for business means that the industry is facing unending IT threats, and will continue to have the need to balance a variety of compliance requirements. In engaging with millions of customers subscribing to services ranging from cable, the Internet, home and mobile phone service, and even data centers, the industry is operating within a heavily risk-laden environment.

Manufacturing is Contending with a Changing Risk Environment

An Overview of Cyber Threats to Manufacturing

Manufacturing is a widespread industry with a lot of components. Mass production, purchasing, selling, and the information and data management necessary to oversee it all largely make up the inner workings of the day-to-day in manufacturing. All manufacturers today are facing cybersecurity issues, including communication security, internet security, protecting customer information and managing sensitive information such as trade secrets and credit card or financial data through production and control systems. It’s a heavy burden to bear.

CSS Presents Cyber Security Survey Results

 
A National Digital Identity Insights Survey

In Q4 2016, CSS Research surveyed information security professionals on their current and anticipated public key infrastructure (PKI) usage, as well as PKI challenges and plans for 2017.

CSS Research surveyed 105 respondents who manage cyber security tools in an evolving digital authentication landscape nationally.

How Properly Managing Digital Certificates Enhances Your Security Posture

Digital Certificate Management and Cyber Security Today

Cryptography itself has been around for a while; what’s interesting is how it’s evolved over time. The landscape is changing from back in the day when we had mainframes and large computing power—with everything becoming smaller, and given the proliferation of devices and IoT, that’s a marked shift is happening in the marketplace. More and more digital certificates are being placed onto phones, iPads, Android devices, and even onto objects that simply have Bluetooth connections that require authentication. Large companies that are making Internet of Things (IoT) devices need to know how to secure them. Even cars have network stacks, and thus the need to be able to upgrade firmware.

Facing the Cybersecurity Challenges of the Retail Sector

Retail’s Cyber Threat Environment: Debit Cards, Credit Cards, and Surviving as a Popular Target

The Internet, technological evolution, and the “always on, always connected” nature of humanity today certainly enables many convenient capabilities. We can order dinner with the swipe of a finger, reserve movie tickets instantaneously and purchase clothing within seconds. Sure, it’s useful, but the extent to which we’re digitally processing payments today poses quite a few security challenges for the retail sector.

CSS Presents PKI Promises for the Security of Next Year

Making 2017 Your Business’ Most Secure Year

2016 was an eventful year for cyber security, from beginning to end. While longstanding security problems remained challenging, many new methods of executing cybercrime emerged and affected businesses throughout all industries, and a number of high-impact attacks glared among headlines throughout the year. 

How Are Achieving Cyber Security Compliance and a Truly Secure State Different?

Achieving Compliance is Not Equivalent to Achieving an Actual Secure State

The backdrop of today’s information security landscape is riddled with demands of the myriad of industry and government compliance requirements for protecting information. From HIPAA to PCI to countless other industry and government compliance mandates, the regulations are complex and seemingly endless, and most businesses have to put a considerable amount of resources toward achieving and maintaining compliance.

Cloud-based Services and the Internet of Things (IoT) Driving PKI

The Explosion of Cloud-based Apps and the IoT are Creating the Need to Reinforce PKI Environments 

The takeover of the cloud has brought countless businesses to pursue cloud migration over the past few years in an effort to take advantage of cost and operational efficiencies. The shift began with storage and simpler applications such as email, and has progressed to more complex applications, many of which require authorization and security to be used.