Join Us Thursday for Another Jam-Packed Day of Tech!

What an amazing Day 3 of the Futurex Virtual Summit 2020! Thank you to everyone who joined us! You’ll want to catch the final day of the Summit on Thursday, June 25 for more in-depth tech talks and demos with our cryptographic and information security experts – plus several guest speakers. If you haven’t registered, you can still do so: https://www.futurex-summit.com/. 

See How Futurex and Venafi Expand Machine Identity Protection

The Machine Identity Protection Development Fund continues to extend new levels of protection to the world’s largest and most security conscious organizations. Today, I’d like to feature an integration from Futurex, a leading provider of hardened enterprise-class data security solutions. Last week, Futurex and Venafi announced the integration of Futurex’s hardware security modules (HSMs), KMES Series 3 and Vectera Plus, with Venafi’s Trust Protection Platform. The integration of Machine Identity Protection with secure key generation and storage and integrated private PKI with FIPS 140-2 Level 3-validated HSMs enables enterprises to guard against key compromise, reduce fraud risk and protect against insider attacks.

How to Start Readying Your IT Ecosystem for Quantum Now

Quantum computers will deliver tremendous benefits, but they will also be able to break the cryptography underlying public key infrastructure (PKI). Quantum computing will be able to solve very specific hard problems that even the fastest supercomputers cannot solve in a reasonable amount of time. This poses an unprecedented problem for encryption that enterprises put their trust in today. Cryptography is the foundation of digital trust – a threat to cryptography is a serious threat to digital trust. In today's increasingly connected ecosystem, broken cryptography can result in unauthorized access to sensitive information, lack of control over connected devices, and potentially, pose great dangers. Consider cars, airplanes, satellites, energy grids. These durable, critical devices are highly vulnerable to attack, as these connected devices (IoT) have long in-field lives requiring their certificates to be updated. Imagine a state-sponsored attack hacking into the system and intercepting software security updates for a satellite. Long-lived devices need to be able to handle whatever cryptographic changes come our way.

Day Two Summit Recap…Join Us Next Week for More!

Another great day of the Futurex Virtual Summit 2020! Thank you to everyone who joined us on Day Two. There are still two more full days of the Summit; join us Thursday, June 18 and Thursday, June 25 for more tech talk talks and demos with our cryptographic and information security experts. If you haven’t registered, you can still do so: https://www.futurex-summit.com/. 

Did you miss Day One? Did you miss Day Two? You can watch the June 4 and the June 11 on-demand presentations here.

Is Your Security Scalable?

The ability to scale infrastructure and systems to match growth rates, increased workloads, market demands and spikes is critical. This has been tested in recent months with the hyper growth of video conferencing platforms such as Zoom and online shopping with the associated delivery of goods surging because of the “stay-at-home” requirements issued due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

For many organizations, particularly retailers or those that provide services to other businesses, business resilience during the pandemic has meant an exponential increase in transactions requiring organizations to amp up their throughput and security at every level to account for the increase in volume.

“When building or upgrading enterprise cryptographic infrastructure in particular, organizations must prioritize scalable architectures and systems as a critical requirement for growing business environments," according to Adam Cason, director of product marketing at Futurex.

Read more in our article at ISACA.