IoT security concerns have been around for years, and with Gartner estimating there will be 20.8 billion IoT devices in use worldwide by 2020, those concerns are escalating to confusion and panic. In today’s hyperconnected world, mutual authentication of devices and networks is critical to maintaining a secure and healthy ecosystem.
“Innovation says that the market, the competition, the customer base and the business challenges and opportunities are all understood,” says Bill Holtz, President and CEO of web security solutions company Comodo CA based in New Jersey. “Innovation within this context is paramount to ongoing success and business existence. If a company is not innovating, it just means that there is a huge opportunity for an existing or new competitor to enter and cause discontinuity in the market.”
An EV SSL certificate (Extended Validation SSL certificate) is a digital identity authentication solution used by HTTPS websites to provide the highest level of security by verifying the identity of a website owner or operator.
EV SSL certificates assure consumers that they are conducting business through a trusted website and have become the industry standard for e-commerce websites.
Comodo CA has purchased early-stage startup CodeGuard to help customers protect their websites from malware through backup, maintenance and disaster recovery capabilities.
The Roseland, N.J.-based company said its acquisition of Atlanta-based CodeGuard will help customers with both malware identification and removal as well as dealing with a down or defaced website, according to Michael Fowler, Comodo CA's president of partners and channels.
It’s widely understood that Extended Validation (EV) SSL certificates are a little bit costlier for online businesses in budget and implementation time than Domain Validation (DV) certificates. Even though the expense and effort needed for EV are trivial compared to other parts of the security stack, many businesses will go for the cheapest and easiest solution unless presented with a compelling reason to do otherwise.
Rival certificate authorities GlobalSign and Comodo CA have strengthened their presence in the IoT security market with new platforms for connected devices. Rival certificate authorities GlobalSign and Comodo CA this week launched competing IoT security platforms designed to improve identity management and authentication of connected devices.
More than one million distrusted digital SSL/TLS Symantec certificates are still in use and failure to replace these certificates will result in site breakage in upcoming version of major browsers, including GoogleChrome and Mozilla Firefox, according to a report from Comodo CA Limited.
