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category: IoT, Security & Automotive

Big Data, Big Holes
By Ernest Worthman - 06 Jul, 2015 - Comments: 0

Having the potential to collect massive amounts of data from a variety of sources is the latest tool for trend spotting, predictive modeling, and forecasting of information. Information is power and big data promises to provide substantial, significant data that can be used by all tiers of businesses in the development of any number of new industrial and commercial strategies. For retailers ... » read more

Mobile Security And The IoE
By Ernest Worthman - 06 Jul, 2015 - Comments: 0

As we climb that mobility ladder to becoming a mostly mobile society, every rung seems to expose us to more and more layers of security failings. Six billion of the seven billion people on this planet rely on a variety of mobile devices to shop, bank, interface with social media, monitor their health, and monitor their environment. Unless you are on the inside track and know better, one would t... » read more

Executive Insight: Wally Rhines
By Ed Sperling - 01 Jul, 2015 - Comments: 0

Wally Rhines, chairman and CEO of Mentor Graphics, sat down with Semiconductor Engineering to talk about what's changing across a wide swath of the industry, where the new opportunities will be, when security will become a real opportunity for EDA, and why Moore's Law will die but progress will continue forever. SE: Looking back over the past year, what's changed and where are the possible r... » read more

Security Risk Escalating In 2015
By Ernest Worthman - 04 Jun, 2015 - Comments: 0

Never has there been a more committed effort for malevolent entities to try to leak data, damage infrastructures, and wreak havoc on data essential to our lives. And never has there been a more opportunistic time for the security industry to put their best effort forward and answer the malfeasance challenge. So what is the current state of cyber security? "Unfortunately, there isn’t a l... » read more

What’s Really Inside?
By Ed Sperling - 04 Jun, 2015 - Comments: 2

Is it just paranoia, or do devices ranging from industrial controls to military hardware really contain malicious code, Trojan Horses, and remotely triggered back doors? The answer is "maybe not" if you're an optimist, and "maybe" if you're a pessimist, but no one really knows for sure. And that's what really worries security experts, particularly as more devices are connected to other devices.... » read more

Smart Grids, Smart Cities
By Ernest Worthman - 04 Jun, 2015 - Comments: 0

What makes today’s power grid “intelligent” is the modernization of the technologies that both provide and support power distribution. These technologies use intelligent data analysis and communications, via a two-way, automated communications network to analyze what is going on within the grid. Information about the activities of both suppliers and consumers is collected, analyzed, an... » read more

Red Tape And Health Care Security
By Ernest Worthman - 04 Jun, 2015 - Comments: 0

The health care industry is still woefully ill-prepared for the Cyber Age. This is a rather dismal assessment, considering that the volume of personal health-related data is an order of magnitude greater than the equivalent data in the financial segment and growing rapidly. Courtesy: Intel The past decade has seen the health-care records industry go electronic. While that may be great f... » read more

Biometrics For The IoT
By Ernest Worthman - 04 Jun, 2015 - Comments: 0

In part one of this topic we started at the top with an overview of biometrics and its base technology. Now, let’s ratchet that up a notch and drill down a bit into some of the details. While biometrics has a lot of potential tools, presently there are only two that are in wide-scale deployment—fingerprint and facial scanning. “Of those two, fingerprints account for 60% to 70% of all a... » read more

IP Market Shifts Direction
By Ed Sperling - 03 Jun, 2015 - Comments: 0

Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss intellectual property changes and challenges with Patrick Soheili, vice president of product management and corporate development at [getentity id="22242" e_name="eSilicon"]; Navraj Nandra, senior director of marketing for DesignWare analog and MSIP at [getentity id="22035" e_name="Synopsys"]; Kurt Shuler, vice president of marketing at [getentity i... » read more

IP Market Shifts Direction
By Ed Sperling - 20 May, 2015 - Comments: 0

Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss intellectual property changes and challenges with Patrick Soheili, vice president of product management and corporate development at [getentity id="22242" e_name="eSilicon"]; Navraj Nandra, senior director of marketing for DesignWare analog and MSIP at [getentity id="22035" e_name="Synopsys"]; Kurt Shuler, vice president of marketing at [getentity i... » read more

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