In the last month, I’ve heard this and similar things a number of times. Senior leaders at vector database companies told me vector embeddings were like hashes and were meaningless except when compared to each other. …

Protect sensitive data stored in your vector database with encryption you won’t even notice, unless you’re a hacker — In response to mounting risks facing software companies with AI solutions, we’ve worked hard to develop a first-of-its-kind product that protects the data that powers AI. That solution is Cloaked AI. Cloaked AI is an encryption-in-use solution that allows the AI memory — the vector embeddings — to be used…

As a security professional, the top question I get is, “what do you do to protect your own privacy?” Here’s what I recommend, along with a checklist at the end. — As the CEO of a company focused on privacy enhancing technologies, I get this question, or some variation of it, all the time. And it can be a hard question to answer. Everyone has a different level of comfort with technology and a different level of privacy sensitivity. …

This is for folks who are already familiar with Nix and using it on a Mac with the nix-darwin module. …

Have you ever tried to convince a coworker or boss that you need to secure sensitive data by encrypting it? As the CEO of a tech company that focuses entirely on encryption solutions, these are conversations I have on a daily basis with architects, CISOs, product managers, and engineers. …

Plus three bonus mini-predictions — Predictions for the future are always tricky, but when it comes to cybersecurity, there are a few things we expect to see in 2023. But first, a quick review of the predictions we made last year: ✅ NFT fizzle — a casualty of the crypto sell-off ✅ Metaverse fizzle —…

It starts when you realize that you have outdated software detritus lurking on your system. You diligently tell your package manager to update everything, but it doesn’t. It can’t. It only manages one slice of your system. Drowning in package managers On Linux, your distribution of choice determines your package manager: apt, rpm, dnf…

Oh, Meta, I imagine that after 2022, you feel like the whole world is against you and the road ahead is bleak. And you should. GDPR fines are getting real The European Union privacy law, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), was passed in 2018. For the first three years, not much happened. …

Originally published on the OpenSearch blog. — Most companies will tell you that the data they hold is well protected. They’ll say it’s encrypted “at rest and in transit,” which means they use HTTPS and disk-level or database-level encryption. Unfortunately, this isn’t the protection most people think it is. Most encryption claims are smoke and mirrors What passes for data protection these days is…