Engineers working on embedded systems or Internet of Things (IoT) projects must contend with the trade-offs between performance and cost that affect every aspect of that design. Security is as much a ...

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A hardware security key is a physical gadget—like a USB stick—that gives you an extra layer of security through multifactor authentication (MFA). When you sign in to certain services, you’ll plug it ...

A hardware security module (HSM) is a solution that stores cryptographic keys to keep them private while ensuring they are available to those authorized to use them. The primary objective of an HSM ...

News broke in February 2025 that hackers chained three vulnerabilities in Palo Alto Networks’ PAN-OS firewalls, turning a trusted security gatekeeper into an open door. Thousands of unpatched systems ...