FIPS
The Q-Day Countdown: What It Is and Why You Should Care
Corey Marshall | | Cybersecurity, digital signatures, encryption, FIPS, Post-Quantum Cryptography, PQC, Q-Day, quantum
On Q-Day, everything we’ve protected with current crypto – from seemingly mundane but confidential data such as email, bank transactions and medical records, to critical infrastructure, and government secrets – all built ...
Security Boulevard
How to (Securely) Share Certificates with Your Cloud Security Provider
Ben Zilberman | | Cloud Security, encryption, FIPS, Hardware Security Module, ssl, waf, Web Application Firewall
Businesses today know they must handle sensitive data with extra care. But evolving cyber threats combined with regulatory demands can lead executives to hold their proverbial security cards close to their chest ...
What is FIPS 140-2 and Why it’s Important
Encryption is key to keeping sensitive data protected. However, there are a number of algorithms available as well as varying capabilities for providing encryption. As a result, it is inevitably challenging to ...
PRNG Weakness Reflects Poorly on Government Crypto Certification
Lucian Constantin | | ANSI X9.31, APT28, crypto flaw, cyberespionage, CyCon U.S., Fancy Bear, FIPS, Fortinet, government certification, Malware, PRNG, pseudorandom number generator, Seduploader, traffic decryption, VPN vulnerability, vulnerability
Security researchers discovered that the pseudorandom number generator that underpins cryptographic operations in Fortinet appliances and products from other 11 other vendors rendered encrypted traffic vulnerable to snooping for years. The affected ...

