Postbank, the banking division of South Africa’s Pat Office, recently reported that a rogue employee had stolen the 36-digit master keys used to protect the banks systems. The result: 25,000 fraudulent charges valued at 56 millio [...]
Most people today are familiar with the basic idea of cryptography -- encrypting a message to secure it so that it’s not readable to anyone and everyone.
As VP of Software Development at Keyfactor, it’s my job to speak with candidates and newly hired engineers as they join the ranks of our growing team (Quick plug: you can always check out our site for open positions). But I’m not [...]
In an evolving cyber security landscape, defenses must continually evolve. Static systems are not only inherently insecure, they are less so with each passing day. This principle applies to cryptography as much as to other types [...]
Something is wrong in the broader Enterprise cyber security landscape. As a whole, organizations are devoting growing sums of cash to thwart cyber criminals. In 2018, international cyber security spending could reach $96 billion, [...]
Imagine a world with no access controls. A free for all resulting in chaos thanks to broken processes, zero audit trails, and no way to administer rights to the appropriate devices or people. Luckily, today’s IoT driven world is l [...]
This week, CSS announced the first mass-market implementation of a quantum-resistant Certificate Authority (CA). The result of a fruitful partnership with ISARA, this project possesses a high "coolness factor." We've been excited [...]
Death, Taxes, and Weakening Cryptography "Nothing is certain except death and taxes." Ben Franklin is often credited with coining this phrase; however, the first known appearance of "death and taxes" in this usage came from a play [...]