Quoted in the (ISC)2 Europe newsletter: ENCRYPTION IS NOT SOLVING ALL CYBERSECURITY PROBLEMS

ENCRYPTION IS NOT SOLVING ALL CYBERSECURITY PROBLEMS

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Sorin Mustaca, CSSLP, shares his thoughts from a recent Frankfurt-based automotive show on the overreliance of the car industry on Encryption, noting “…all those lights are sensors and processors which communicate with each other via the CAN BUS (Controller Area Network). If one of them is compromised, it will send invalid data to the others and the consequences are unpredictable. The data will leave the car encrypted and will be decrypted on destination, but the information is compromised.”

 

 

 

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