Fire Eye, Sentinel One, Crowdstrike, HackerOne, Cylance, Cyphort, Trustlook, Venafi, Clavister, Invincea, Code42, just to name a few, are so called NG Cybersecurity startups. NG comes from “New Generation” or “Next Generation”… (Yeah, just like in StarTrek. 🙂 ) What exactly are these “NG” products and services? There is no single definition that fits […]
Security researchers from China-based tech company Tencent have identified a series of vulnerabilities that can be exploited to remotely hack an unmodified Tesla Model S while it’s parked or on the move. The researchers managed to perform various actions. While the vehicle was parked, the experts demonstrated that they could: control the sunroof, the turn […]
Not a month passes without seeing some major car manufacturer that has cybersecurity issues. This month we have seen made public a report from February 2016 related to BMW. The short story The BMW ConnectedDrive Web portal was found to contain a vulnerability that could result in a compromise of registered or valid vehicle […]
Somebody asked me why do I have in my LinkedIn profile “IT Security Expert” and in my company website www.mustaca.com “Sorin Mustaca Cybersecurity”. In order to answer that, I need to clarify the difference between Cybersecurity and Information Security (infosec). I googled a bit because I don’t have too much time and I did find something […]
Source: Responsibility for Vehicle Security and Driver Privacy in the Age of the Connected Car Sponsored by: Veracode, Created by IDC Author: Duncan Brown IDC conducted in-depth interviews with leading vehicle manufacturers and automotive industry representatives, as well as 1072 drivers across the UK and Germany. These are the questions that the survey had: […]
“Cybersecurity” and “cyber security” are getting more and more mixed usage lately, so much that they are becoming almost as ambiguous as the term “cloud” was a few years back. The challenge information security executives and professionals are faced with is knowing ̶ as the title implies ̶ when and why the term should be […]
The 3rd consecutive year, celebrating the European Cyber Security Month (ECSM) through-out October, has just been kicked-off in Brussels. Here is the agenda: WEEK 1 Cyber Security Training for Employees WEEK 2 Creating a Culture of Cyber Security at Work WEEK 3 Code Week for All WEEK 4 Understanding Cloud Solutions for All WEEK […]
Not so many people outside of the IT Security business know which are the top 500 companies in this field. Cybersecurity Ventures has published this top: check it here. I am not allowed to reproduce any parts of it, but I can tell you that the number 1 is FireEye. From the AV world, we […]
