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Tenable
Tenable CTO joins
leaders at the
Cybersecurity Tech
Accord Panel
he Co-founder and CTO of
Tenable has joined other global
leaders in Davos, Switzerland,
at the Cybersecurity Tech Accord panel
to discuss cybersecurity as part of the
global digital economy. Renaud Deraison
participated in the Tech Accord’s
second-annual panel discussion to
explore modern cybersecurity challenges
and how industry partners can work
together to further improve the security
of the digital economy. The panel also
featured senior leaders from prominent
Tech Accord companies, including: Tom
Patterson, Chief Trust Officer at Unisys;
Sanjay Poonen, Chief Operating Officer at
VMWare; Alissa Starzak, Head of Public
Policy at Cloudflare; and Amy Weaver,
President of Legal and Corporate Affairs
for Salesforce.
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“The interconnectedness of today’s digital
world has driven the global economy
to new heights. While the benefits of
this innovation are undisputed, we
can’t ignore the new threats it creates
for enterprises and governments,”
said Deraison. “For example, critical
infrastructure security is now a major
business risk for every company in every
industry – from energy and transportation
to pharmaceuticals and, even, the right to
fair elections. As we enter a new decade,
we have to ensure that cybersecurity is
central to every technology investment
and business strategy. This charge is
fundamental to Tenable’s Cyber Exposure
vision, helping organisations everywhere
manage, measure and reduce their cyber-
risk in the digital era.”
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THALES BOOSTS BIOMETRIC
MATCHING PERFORMANCE WHILE
HALVING ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
hales, a world leader in
digital security, is using
innovative assets from
the aerospace industry to boost its
Biometric Matching System (BMS)
performance while reducing the
environmental impact. The BMS
is the heart of government digital
identification systems.
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which is compatible with any server
and cloud.
Introducing interoperability with its
border management system requires
multiple processing of hundreds
of millions of biometric database
records within one to two seconds. Specifically, Gemalto uses these FPGA
boards for matching hundreds of millions
of biometric fingerprint templates
which are digital signatures, created
from fingerprint images. This proven
solution also allows for much faster
data processing and greater matching
accuracy, while at the same time limiting
infrastructure costs and cutting carbon
emissions. Depending on server and
system specification, it can require up to
75% less servers and energy overall.
To perform data comparison at this
scale Gemalto, a Thales company,
is applying commercial off-the-
shelf Field-Programmable Gate
Array (FPGA) technology, originally
designed for ultra-low latency
applications in high performance
computing (HPC) environments in
financial and scientific industries, Gemalto’s Automated Fingerprint
Identification System (AFIS) and
Automated Biometric Identification
System (ABIS) are scalable and
customisable solutions, providing a
range of functionalities for processing,
editing, searching, retrieving, and storing
fingerprint, palm print, face and iris
images and biographic subject records.
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