Moving to the cloud usually brings several advantages, such as flexibility, scalability, and cost-effectiveness. However, it also results in multiple security challenges – the main one being how the cryptographic keys are managed between existing i...
In today’s modern IT environments, code is distributed in a variety of forms. From standard software packages for Linux, Windows, MacOS and Java, to mobile apps, firmware, virtual machines, containers, and it’s even embedded in Microsoft...
Cryptography, in its simplest definition, generates code that allows data to be kept secret. And at the core of cryptographic operations is the creation of a key that is used to encrypt and decrypt that data. The challenge of both generating cryptographi...
As our digital footprint continues to grow even more rapidly by the expanding remote work world, more and more enterprises have shifted their focus to the cloud. For those with heavy investments in on-premise infrastructure, hardware security modules (HS...
In security, a “root of trust” is an element that can be trusted and then used to ensure that the entire system is secure. In cryptography, it can be used to mean many things, but the most basic root of trust is that cryptographic keys are secure and...
In honor of Women’s History Month and #HyperledgerWomen, we interviewed Unbound’s Director of Digital Asset Security & Blockchain, Rebecca Aspler to get her thoughts specifically on blockchain security.
RA: “Worldwide spending on blockchain sol...
Last week, I had the pleasure of attending the Real-World Crypto Symposium (RWC 2020) in New York. There was a large attendance with over 600 people (yes, this is a large number for an academic cryptography conference), who came to hear about academic wor...
Ever wondered how it’s possible to hack a hardware security module (HSM)? We recently had the opportunity to chat with Dr. Fotis Loukos, researcher at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and Director of Security Architecture at SSL Corp. ...
Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) are physical boxes that carry out cryptographic operations, and never reveal the keys inside. They are designed to have very high security, and as such, are used to protect an organization’s most valuable cryptographic ...
