Daily Archives: August 3, 2020

The ETSI IoT standard: are regulators doing enough to protect IoT devices?

The announcement of a new standard for Internet of Things (IoT) security by the ETSI technical committee in June 2020 was very much welcome in the infosec industry. ETSI EN 303 645 puts in place a security baseline for internet-connected products, and lays out 13 provisions outlining the steps manufacturers can take to secure devices and ensure […]

Cloud software provider Blackbaud pays ransom, as incidents rise globally

WEEK IN IT SECURITY – Just as we were reporting last week on our sister site The Evolving Enterprise that ransomware is behind 1 in 3 cyber security attacks on organisations, news was breaking of another major ransom attack, reports Jeremy Cowan. This time South Carolina-based Blackbaud, a third-party supplier of database services and customer relationship management (CRM) systems for […]

The tipping point for SaaS in product development: Part 1

Software as a Service (SaaS) adoption has reached a tipping point in the product lifecycle management (PLM) and computer aided design (CAD) markets. Here, Will Hastings, research analyst manager at PTC talks about the way forward. With the COVID-19 crisis forcing many desk workers to work from home, organisations that relied on their physical space […]