Rob Pike

Rob Pike is founder and CEO of Cyemptive Technologies, a provider of pre-emptive cybersecurity products, and brings a wealth of experience in creating new technologies and bringing them to market for companies both large and small. Pike founded Cyemptive in 2014, with his vision of ushering in a new era of cybersecurity. He also has served as Chief Strategy Officer at Hitachi Data Systems in Japan, where he invented Hitachi’s cloud platform UCP, as well as at Microsoft, where he served in a variety of capacities culminating with Virtualization Architect and invented an internal cloud solution. He has founded several startups and holds numerous patents in servers, storage, networking, monitoring, security and management.

The perfect storm: How hardware security is getting weaker as the industry changes its cybersecurity models

Rob Pike

October 27, 2020

On one hand, we have cybersecurity solutions that are not keeping pace with today’s hackers. In spite of more resources being devoted to cybersecurity, cyber compromises are at an all-time high, with even less experienced hackers now gaining access. At the same time, hardware designers are changing their industry standards and direction. This change enables hackers anytime access to hardware - even when it is powered off. The result of this combination is a perfect cyber storm, ready for disaster.

Retail security professionals are facing an increasingly complex array of security challenges — everything from organized retail crime to evolving cyber-physical threats and public safety concerns.

Rob Pike

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The perfect storm: How hardware security is getting weaker as the industry changes its cybersecurity models

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