ICSA Software

ICSA Software | May 31, 2016

ICSA Labs, which is an independent division of Verizon Communications, is about to embark on a new “Internet of Things” security testing certification program designed to ensure security features for IoT devices and sensors work as advertised. The IoT security testing and certification program is set to include testing in six areas: cryptography, communications, physical security, platform security, alert/logging and authentication. Security is consistently one of the top concerns fo...

ICSA Software | March 17, 2016

Verizon-affiliated certificates for anti-virus are “meaningless,” according to Google security expert Tavis Ormandy, who claims that the awards fail to recognize “low hanging fruit” flaws in AV products. In a blog post last weekend, Ormandy criticized ICSA Labs, an independent division of Verizon, for rewarding Comodo’s anti-virus software its 2016 Excellence in Information Security Testing Award despite the fact that he had discovered vulnerabilities in the product...

ZDNet | January 14, 2020

DevOps Pulse is an annual analysis of the DevOps industry, conducted by logz.io. Findings from the 2019 version have just been published, and we take the opportunity to share and comment on them with Tomer Levy, logz.io CEO. Levy co-founded logz.io in 2014 and has managed to raise about $100 million and build a team of 250 people to date, on the premise of offering an open-source based solution for log management. The 2019 survey focuses on observability, bringing DevOps engineers' insights ...

VentureBeat | January 13, 2020

Google hopes to tap AI and machine learning to make speedy local weather predictions. In a paper and accompanying blog post, the tech giant detailed an AI system that uses satellite images to produce “nearly instantaneous” and high-resolution forecasts — on average, with a roughly one kilometer resolution and a latency of only 5-10 minutes. The researchers behind it say it outperforms traditional models “even at these early stages of development.” The system takes a...