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Protection for Premium Content for Mobile, TV, and STB
November 11, 2015, ARM TechCon, Santa Clara, CA—Henk Pruim from Inside Secure described the issues and challenges of the premium content industry. The various delivery options are in a flux as viewers move from tethered connections to IP delivery technologies. IP and Internet video are growing at a very high rate. Various pundits are forecasting…
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Securing Valuable Assets in Microcontroller Designs
November 10, 2015, ARM Techcon, Santa Clara, CA—Sean Newton from ST Microelectronics provided insights into the need for various types of security in designs. The basics of security have to be modified for microcontroller-class devices to be most effective with the limited resources available. The headline events about hacks and breaches into data and devices…
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Security Versus Privacy: Challenges in Bridging the Two Functions
April 20, 2015, International Association of Privacy Professionals, San Francisco—Sagi Leizerov from Ernst & Young provided an overview of the problems in balancing privacy and security. Although the two are distinct, they are very closely related. The changing nature of digital communications is calling for more developers to build, control, and manage privacy programs. Most…
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Practical Secure Storage
September 17, 2014, Storage Developer Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Walt Hubis from Hubis Technical Associates presented a vendor agnostic overview of secure storage. this information includes current and emerging technologies and changes in international security standards to implement a practical and secure storage system. The first area to consider is encryption. The drivers for this level…
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Pericom Focuses on Mobility at IDF
September 9, 2014, Intel Developer Forum, San Francisco—Pericom announced a broad range of new products at the show. Following the lead of the standards organizations and OEM roadmaps, they are making products that will enhance mobility and interoperability. The emphasis is on low power operation and small packaging for all of the parts. The new…
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Branding Protection in Game Audio
July 22, 2014, Casual Connect Conference, San Francisco—Mona Ibrahim from the Interactive Entertainment Law Group described the various types and levels of protection for musical intellectual property. Some of the considerations for protection could provide significant value to the IP owner. Types of musical content that qualifies for protection include music scores, jingles, theme songs,…
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Data Protection for Hybrid Clouds
April 22, 2014, Data Storage Innovation Conference, Santa Clara, CA—David Chapa from E Vault talked about some of the challenges facing IT managers with multiple data sites and configurations. Protection and recovery can be administered as a single entity independent of the data locations. One issue is how to define a cloud infrastructure. As virtualization…
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Data Protection: Tape, Drives, And Beyond
April 5, 2011, Storage Network World, Santa Clara, CA—Michael Fishman of EMC Corporation presented concepts of data protection in an era of shrinking time windows for data safety and recovery. Data protection is related to data availability and the ability to recover those data under any circumstances. Starting at the end, recovery is the ultimate…
