Forget phishing for bank account passwords. The deepest threats to online security are the weaknesses in the fundamental protocols that run the Internet.

Editorial Coverage

2008

08 Feb 2008

Processor: Build A Better Wireless Shield
By Christian Perry

When enterprises make the move from a wired to wireless infrastructure, the danger of disregarding the importance of security often rears its head. The myriad challenges inherent with simply installing and maintaining a wireless network can easily push security to the wayside. However, that trap can prove fatal.

01 Feb 2008

Darkreading: The Buzz Around Fuzzing

Security researchers long have sworn by it, and now many enterprises, developers, and service providers are turning to an increasingly popular method of identifying security vulnerabilities: fuzzing.

2007

01 Nov 2007	TMCnet - Codenomicon Introduces DEFENSICS for WLAN Often, the biggest challenge faced by the developers of wireless consumer devices, public broadband infrastructure vendors and network service providers is the challenge of identifying product flaws and security vulnerabilities early in the production process. If these flaws go unidentified and if they remain in the final product, it will hamper the performance of the product and harm the reputation of the company. <full article>
05 Oct 2007	San Jose Business Journal: Finnish lines are crossing to San Jose By Timothy Robers When a Finnish company sews up the technology market in Finland, it's still got only the 0,5 percent of the global markket. And so it is not surprising that Finnish companies are lookin beyond their borders. <full article>
11 Sept 2007	Computer Technology Review - Storage Vendors and Service Providers Can Now Offer More Resilient and Secure Offerings This week the Storage Network Industry Association (SNIA) had a decent turnout for its Storage Developers Conference which targets storage developers, architects, and engineers from the world.s leading storage vendors and service providers. The event, which garnished over 300 participants, covered such topics as distributed and content aware storage, data management and continuous data protection, and security. <full article>
04 Sep 2007	FT REPORT - FINLAND: Pro-active approach opens global doors By Robert Anderson, Financial Times Codenomicon is a typical Oulu high-tech start-up company with a very untypical attitude. "We are more American than the Americans," says Ari Takanen, chief technical officer and one of the founders. Unlike many other local start-ups, it has also successfully expanded abroad while remaining largely Finnish-owned and run. Codenomicon produces software testing tools for web, network, wireless and digital media customers and then test and eliminate security and robustness weaknesses that, for example, allow hackers easy access. <full article>
16 Aug 2007	VoIP requires strict attention to security best practices Despite the genuine possibilities of attack, some experts say that VoIP is more secure than the traditional public switched telephone network (PSTN). “The VoIP system is much more secure than traditional systems,” says Ari Takanen, founder and CTO of Codenomicon, which makes software security-testing tools. Speaking at the recent VON Europe 2007 conference, he acknowledged VoIP vulnerabilities, but said they were not insurmountable. “IP systems are more exposed, but you have more security that you can install,” he says. “If you don’t use it — that’s stupid.” <full article>
20 Apr 2007	Want Turns to Need Software security is no longer an emerging discipline, and here's why enterprises should care Dark Reading <full article>
26 Mar 2007	Codenomicon announced Defensics Filesystems & Storage solution for securing the networked storage systems Byte and Switch <full article>