Companies are doing everything from building their own secure devices to creating new encryption protocols.

Securing the connected, smart and increasingly autonomous cars of tomorrow against hackers and online criminals will only get harder, warns the Cloud Security Alliance.

After a two-year study, Google is lauding the use of USB cryptographic keysticks as a way to authenticate identity online, preventing phishing and man-in-the-middle attacks and securing both individual accounts and the enterprise to which they belong.

Public Key Infrastructure, the system used to create, manage and store the mathematical keys and digital certificates used for encryption, is under stress in many companies and agencies, according to a new Ponemon survey.