Personal-Data-Protection

Happy Data Privacy Day

On January 28th; the U.S., Canada, and 47 European countries take time to acknowledge the importance of privacy and data protection best practices. Although this day has its roots in protecting personal data, specifically with …

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Whitehouse

White House Updates

When the Whitehouse issued its new action plan to prevent security breaches and attacks similar to that of the OPM fiasco, part of the plan was to acknowledge a number of cybersecurity gaps; some of which will ultimately impact …

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OpenSSL-FIPS-Compliance

FIPS Compliance and OpenSSL

Product vendors often rely on OpenSSL to meet FIPS requirements. With the new CMVP requirements and regulations, vendors using certain versions of the OpenSSL cryptographic library to meet FIPS 140-2 requirements are in jeopardy of being out of …

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Binary

Sunsetting of FIPS 140-2 Products

Over 1,500 FIPS 140-2 validated products will be facing archival by CMVP by 2017. Recently, CMVP, the governing body which oversees FIPS 140-2 validations, laid out guidelines and new regulations for validations in two distinct areas: …

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