Posts by Gene Farrelly
The Memory of Cars
An estimated 5% of the memory market goes into automobiles today and this is expected to grow to 10% within the next few years as cars use more and more electronic functions to provide greater safety, greater efficiency, driver assist capabilities, communication between vehicles and local networks and richer telemetric and entertainment functions. Today about…
Read MoreBloomber Business Week – The Battle for Smart Car Data
In the July 18-24 issue of Bloomberg Businessweek, there is an article on the Battle for Smart Car Data. The article points out that McKinsey estimates that in-car data services and ride sharing could generate $1.5 Trillion annually by 2030. They also point out that there were 228M smartphones in use in the U.S. in 2015…
Read MoreSED SSDs in Toshiba’s 2016 Catalog
In their 2016 product catalog, Toshiba lists several client solid state drives (SSDs) that are self-encrypting under either the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) Opal or Pyrite specifications generic lexapro. Sizes range from 60GB to 1TB. Want more details? Click here to visit the Toshiba site and look for the “Storage Products SSD/SSHD/HDD” catalog. You can…
Read MoreSandisk X300 SSD
SanDisk Corporation announced the inaugural members of its broad ecosystem of independent software vendors (ISV) for security management around the newly announced SanDisk X300s SSD, the company’s first self-encrypting SSD based on TCG Opal 2.0 specifications. ISV partners including Absolute SecureDrive™, Check Point Full Disk Encryption, Microsoft BitLocker for Encrypted Hard Drive, Wave Systems EMBASSY® Security Center,…
Read MoreHistory of Encryption on the iPhone
The Apple/FBI debate over the iPhone from the San Bernadino incident has been garnering a lot of press lately. This article details the evolution of encryption on the iPhone. Click <a href="http://www lexapro online.informationweek.com/mobile/iphone-encryption-5-ways-its-changed-over-time/d/d-id/1324425?_mc=NL_IWK_EDT_IWK_daily_20160226&cid=NL_IWK_EDT_IWK_daily_20160226&elqTrackId=be38376442da44bdbf46c9ae2a010aee&elq=6021240ab65f4cba8c0b7b50716618bd&elqaid=67950&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=19746″ target=”_blank”>here to read more.
Read MoreShodan – Indexing IoT
Shodan is a search engine that is indexing all kinds of devices. As with most technology, there is the opportunity for this information to be used for good and bad. This article underscores the need for good security. Click here to read more.
Read MoreLights, Camera, Legal Action?
by Simon Tidnam Imagine you’re driving through an intersection when another car slams into you. You’re stunned to hear the other driver claim they had right of way. It’s not going to be easy to prove who was at fault. Now imagine you have a video recording that shows exactly what happened. Wouldn’t that be…
Read MoreTCG & NVMe Endorse DTA Open Source
The Drive Trust Alliance (DTA) just added support for NVMe drives in Linux and basic Single user mode to its popular open source code (sedutil). TCG and NVM both took notice and gave resounding endorsements. Click here for the TCG article and click here for the <a href="http://www go to this web-site.nvmexpress.org/blog/drive-trust-alliance-adds-nvme-support-to-sedutil/” target=”_blank”>NVMe article.
Read MoreResilient Systems releases “Cybersecurity 2015 Year-In-Review”
Resilient Systems, providers of the award-winning Incident Response Platform (IRP) which empowers organizations to thrive in the face of cyberattacks and business crises, released its 2015 cybersecurity landscape review. Featuring Resilient’s Bruce Schneier and Gant Redmon, and ESG security analyst Jon Oltsik, this year’s panel will review the cybersecurity landscape from last year, and debate…
Read MoreSEDs at 100% Penetration for Flash and Enterprise Storage
Some years ago, a group of visionary storage experts convened in the Trusted Computing Group to find a better way to protect data at rest and a more efficient way to properly dispose of or re-provision drives. As a result of that effort, TCG created the first standards for self-encrypting drives, or SEDs. As can…
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