Richard Moulds

In light of the reams of sensitive data that the Internet of Things generates, the need for security has never been greater.

Attacks against keys are some of the most insidious attacks there are and the impact can be devastating.

In order to unlock the floodgates, we need to address the security concerns of moving everything to the cloud. Fortunately, cloud providers today are heavily invested in addressing this issue.

Why does the lure of the cloud tempt businesses to put ever more sensitive data at risk? Richard Moulds, VP of strategy at Thales e-Security examines the situation.

Trojans can propagate further - without detection by anti-virus applications - when they are digitally signed.

The introduction disclosure obligations is having an impact on the adoption of encryption across the enterprise, says Richard Moulds, Thales Group.

We used to live in an analog world. We played records, radio stations had static interference, we flattened out dollar bills to work in vending machines and we anguished over hanging chads. Sure, everything was converted into bits and bytes in the end, but the world we interacted with was a physical one.

The internet now has 1.07 billion users worldwide and more people buy online than ever before. But this growth in ecommerce has also created a fertile environment for fraud and security threats.

From the early days of the Internet, credit and charge card companies recognized the enormous opportunities presented to them - but they also saw challenges ahead.

From the early days of the internet, credit and charge card companies recognized the enormous opportunities presented to them - but they also saw challenges ahead.