Today, there are 7 billion connected devices globally. By 2025, this number is expected to reach 50 billion. A major buyer, among other Critical National Infrastructure installations, is the energy sector, which is seeing interactive appliances and apps and remote control capabilities integrated in industrial operations. (p. 20)
Sectigo has purchased Internet of Things security provider Icon Labs to expand its private trust business beyond issuing certificates and get into verifying firmware and hardening devices.
Certificate authority (CA) Sectigo, the artist formerly known as Comodo CA, has bought out security biz Icon Labs. Icon Labs will be absorbed into Sectigo's IoT Security Platform product, we are told, "with the industry-first ability to use purpose-built IoT issuance from a trusted third-party CA".
Will connected devices be insecure forever? Or will legislation – such as the recent UK mandate announced this week – help boost IoT security? Threatpost sits down with Jason Soroko, chief technology officer of IoT at Sectigo, to discuss IoT security. This is a lightly-edited transcription of The Threatpost Podcast: What is the Future of IoT Security?
Open source code is vital to software development at most organizations, but that doesn't mean that enterprises have figured out how to use open source without inadvertently introducing vulnerabilities into their code.
Chief Executive spoke with Sectigo CEO Bill Holtz about C-Suite concerns on cybersecurity, how the company manages to recruit tech talent and more. These are excerpts from the interview.
As connected devices become common throughout a wide range of industries, it should come as no surprise that we are reading about the increasing frequency of attacks targeting IoT devices and systems. Particularly alarming are the facts that many of these attacks are now targeting devices linked to safety rather than to fraud.
Digital certificate industry experts have recently discovered a flaw in the certificate generation practices of several major CAs, which has resulted in millions of estimated active TLS/SSL certificates that are non-compliant with mandatory industry standards. These standards are engineered to protect cryptographic security as well as trustworthy identity information in public certificates.
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