As remote working continues across the globe, cyber threats grow in both size and sophistication.
Guarding against risk is vital to surviving in the highly competitive food and beverage industry. The areas of risk are constantly growing as businesses face pressure to enhance quality, reduce costs and improve efficiency. As companies seek to build greater resilience, it is essential that they adopt smart technologies to help guarantee their business remains on track.
In recent years, hospitals and medical facilities have been successfully targeted by cyber crooks looking to exploit or wreak havoc on the healthcare sector and its patients. The costs of inaction, from ignoring embedded device security, to lax email security, can be steep.
Homes and businesses worldwide are vulnerable to attacks from cyber thieves and other bad actors – and not just through their computer networks. The embedded electronics inside appliances present an easy path of entry. t’s already been happening. According to Business Insider and Proofpoint, one of the first refrigerator incidents occurred in late 2013 when a refrigerator-based botnet was used to attack businesses.
Cybersecurity remains a universal problem in the design and deployment of any system connected to the public Internet. Semiconductor vendors are helping to strike a balance by providing easier to deploy security solutions. This article will discuss the problem of security before introducing one such solution from NXP Semiconductors, namely the EdgeLock SE050 secure element (SE).
Significant as fines for data loss incidents can be – up to four percent of global turnover in the case of GDPR – it’s arguable that the reputational damage from a major breach is even worse. So why are businesses not doing more to protect the physical security of corporate devices?