As 5G gains traction, service providers need to be able to trust their networks’ security to truly take advantage of 5G’s capabilities. Digital certificates are critical to that, writes Alexa Tahan of Nokia.
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What SolarWinds Tells Us About Securing the Software Development Supply Chain
The recent SolarWinds attack highlights an Achilles heel for enterprises: software updates for critical enterprise applications. Digital signing of code is one solution, but organizations need to modernize their code signing processes to prioritize security and integrity and align with DevOps best practices, writes Brian Trzupek the Senior Vice President of Products at DigiCert in this thought leadership article.
Google Busts Symantec-Issued Certificates and Its a Big Mess
In-brief: Google’s rebuke of Symantec over its sloppy and problem-plagued certificate authority business risks upsetting some of the Internet’s biggest brands.
9 Quintillion Tries Later: Researchers Crack SHA-1
In-brief: Researchers at Google and CWI Amsterdam say they produced the first “collision” of hashes produced with the SHA-1 algorithm, hastening the end of life for the 22-year-old encryption technology.
Can Blockchain Save The Internet of Things?
In-brief: In this Security Ledger podcast, we speak with the guys from Chain of Things, a new consortium that is investigating applications of Block Chain and related technologies to solving identity and security problems for IoT deployments.
