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Today almost everything is connected to the internet - from your coffeemaker to your car to your thermostat. But the “Internet of Things” may not be hardwired for security. Window Snyder, computer security expert and author, joins EFF hosts Cindy Cohn and Danny O’Brien as they delve into the scary...
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Share this article Share this article SAN FRANCISCO, April 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Thistle Technologies, a new security company addressing the connected device market, today announced $2.5 million in seed funding from True Ventures. Thistle was founded by Window Snyder, who formerly served as chief security officer at Square, Mozilla, and Fastly, in addition to chief software security officer at Intel Corporation. She's held multiple security leadership positions at Apple and Microsoft. The number of connected devices in businesses, homes, industrial plants and elsewhere is exploding. Grow...
Window Snyder’s new startup Thistle Technologies raises $2.5M seed to secure IoT devices The Internet of Things has a security problem. The past decade has seen wave after wave of new internet-connected devices, from sensors through to webcams and smart home tech, often manufactured in bulk but with little — if any — consideration to security. Worse, many device manufacturers make no effort to fix security flaws, while others simply leave out the software update mechanisms needed to deliver patches altogether. That sets up an entire swath of insecure and unpatchable devices to fail, and...