Author: Carl Nerup

Cog’s D4 Secure products mitigate and protect connected devices from many different forms of attacks.  Let’s take a look at how D4 is impacted by Meltdown and Spectre, and how device makers can use D4 to create more secure and feature rich IoT devices.

Continue reading “D4 Secure stays rock solid – Meltdown and Spectre”

To say ET Exchange was informative, highly educational and galvanizing would be an understatement. Several of us from the Cog team attended the event a couple weeks ago and were impressed with the caliber of networking, presenters and content.

Since Cog Systems specializes in cybersecurity, we found it inspiring that security was consistently part of the conversation and referred to as a foundational element of digital transformation throughout the show.

Key take aways include:

• We had the pleasure of speaking with Jack Madden, executive editor of BrianMadden.com, about new security threats and defenses currently available to enterprise and government. “The S in IoT stands for security,” he joked. But as the world is finding, it is virtually an afterthought, which Jack covers in his thorough round up of the event in a recent blog post.
• Christine Ferrusi Ross, an expert at understanding and solving customer problems, delivered an educational session on the controversial yet revolutionary Blockchain technology. Christine talked about how decentralization and self-sovereign identity control are some of the key outcomes of Blockchain technology. It puts individuals at the center of their data ownership with full control over our identity and share as we desire, while providing the necessary layers of security via the decentralization of all the data.
• Maribel Lopez, founder of Lopez Research, delivered a thoughtful discussion on the approach to enterprise digital transformation today and what it takes for IT leaders to stay ahead of the curve.
• Joe Weinman, founder of XFORMA shared four stages or “Digital Disciplines” to create customer value and enable competitive advantage. These include: information excellence to complement operational excellence, solution leadership, collective intimacy and accelerated innovation. We definitely plan on learning more about these insights from the book he wrote on the topic.
• Our very own Dr. Daniel Potts participated in Bob Egan’s panel that focused on digital transformation and what it will look like in 2020.
  In addition to these valuable learnings, nGage customer attendees named Cog Systems’ D4 Secure as Best Overall Digital Transformation Solution and also nominated Cog as a Vendor to Watch.

There’s no doubt that society as we know it is experiencing the next pivot in technology equivalent to the industrial revolution. While the future remains unknown, we appreciate the opportunity to be part of the conversation.
Thanks nGage for a great event!

Often I am asked about what makes Cog Systems different, and how that will matter in the long term. By this point, this is an easy question for me – and the answer is as elegant as it is obvious.

So, first, I suggest we all take a quick quiz. What is the single piece of technology that underpins the cloud computing revolution?

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Continuing from The Past is Prologue (Part 1).

Since our founding days, our company’s purpose is to expedite the move to new technology and approaches that enables and encourages OEMs (the people who make devices) to construct more secure devices, while also enriching their functionality, and thereby enabling further innovation.  This would in turn would provide integrators with richer products and tools to build an entire connected, and secure ecosystem.  It would enable enterprises and users to reclaim lost productivity in scenarios where security became a burden or inhibiting (eg. Enterprise mobile users are often constrained by the applications with which they can run).  The cool thing about this technology and approach is that it has very broad applicability to how we build systems (more on that another time).

The time is now.  Continue reading “Our Master Plan – The Inflection Point (Part 2)”

We’ve been doing some great things at Cog Systems and have an exciting vision for the future – our master plan – so I thought I’d share it with everyone in a couple of blog posts.  It’ll be fun.  Let’s see how it pans out over the next few years – I’ll probably be way off, because one of the things we are great at is being nimble and able to adapt quickly to where we see opportunity and need.  Let’s see.

But first, before I tell you where we are heading, I wanted to share where we have come from and share some insights into our team and our performance.

Continue reading “Our Master Plan – The Past is Prologue (Part 1)”