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The Security Challenges Threatening to Tear the Internet of Things Apart

November 4, 2015 3 Comments

The Internet of Things (IoT) has the power to transform our lives, making us more productive at work, and happier and safer at home. But it’s also developing at such a rate that it threatens to outstrip our ability to adequately secure it. A piece of software hasn’t been written yet that didn’t contain mistakes – after all, we’re only human. But with non-security experts designing and building connected systems the risks grow ever greater. So what can be done?

Securing The Internet of (broken) Things: A Matter of Life and Death

October 6, 2015 1 Comment

If you’re like me you’ll probably be getting desensitized by now to the ever-lengthening list of data breach headlines which have saturated the news for the past 24 months or more. Targeted attacks, Advanced Persistent Threats and the like usually end up in the capture of sensitive IP, customer information or trade secrets. The result? Economic damage, board level sackings and a heap of bad publicity for the breached organization. But that’s usually where it ends.

Cesare Garlati Joins prpl Foundation as Chief Security Strategist

April 7, 2015 Leave a comment

SANTA CLARA, CA–(Marketwired – April 07, 2015) – Well-known information security expert Cesare Garlati today joins the prpl Foundation as Chief Security Strategist. Garlati will assist the Foundation with security strategy in the newly formed Security PEG (prpl Engineering Group), a working group dedicated to creating an open standard framework that addresses next-generation security requirements for connected devices.

“Cesare Garlati is an internationally renowned leader in the mobile security space,” said prpl Foundation president Art Swift. “We all look forward to his contributions in security strategy and his participation in the ground-breaking Security PEG.”

About Cesare Garlati

This is my personal blog about disruptive technology trends such as cyber security, open source processors, and the Internet of Things. It's full of my reasoned opinions, some of which will turn out to be absolutely wrong. You should not rely on anything in this blog for any reason other than for amusement.

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I am the founder of Hex Five Security and an active member of the RISC-V Foundation: some of my writing will appear here too if it's relevant. The opinions here are mine and mine alone, and are not representative of any professional organizations I belong to.

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