Let's be honest: most agencies don't have a blank check to invest in cybersecurity modernization. But that doesn't mean they're stuck. You don't need a full rip-and-replace to make meaningful progress; you need clarity, urgency and smart prioritization. Whether you're working with a full budget or a shoestring one, there are moves you can make today that will strengthen your defenses tomorrow.
Google has announced a new feature called Android Emergency Live Video, and it's pretty much what you'd assume it would be based on the name - the ability to share live video with emergency services. And it works "in a single tap" too, because in an emergency every second counts.
The multi-million dollar effort to remove public access to police radio communications across the East Bay has a new start date, roughly a month after similar plans were undone by a technology snafu. Every law enforcement agency in Contra Costa County including all police departments and the county's sheriff's office will end public access to their radio chatter on Oct. 7, said David Swing, head of the East Bay Regional Communications System Authority. Nearly every such agency in Alameda County plans to follow suit on Oct. 9, he said. The only holdout appears to be the Berkeley Police Department, which vowed last month to keep their conversations public.
"I am concerned that these actions by foreign powers to impose censorship and weaken end-to-end encryption will erode Americans' freedoms and subject them to myriad harms, such as surveillance by foreign governments and an increased risk of identity theft and fraud," Ferguson wrote in the letters, the statement added.
End-to-end encryption is an essential security tool that protects our personal data, including our bank details, health information, private conversations and images. It'd be an entirely reckless and unprecedented move from the UK Government to open up a backdoor to this data, and one that will have global consequences.
VPNs (Virtual Private Networks) allow you to browse the internet from a remote server, masking your IP address and anonymizing your identity in the process.
Russian President Vladimir Putin authorised the development of its own, state-backed messaging app, which will be integrated with government services, and will provide a more functional service to locals.
The Investigatory Powers Tribunal will hear five legal challenges regarding a secret Home Office order requiring Apple to grant access to encrypted iCloud data.
"The second that you give up your data to someone else, you've essentially reduced your privacy," Jonathan Mortensen, founder and CEO of Confident Security, told TechCrunch. "And our product's goal is to remove that trade-off."
