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Back in America with a black eye, Silent Circle rebuilds with focus on software

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Silent Circle’s move to Switzerland in 2014 caused a huge stir. Just after Edward Snowden became a household name, the up-and-coming American tech firm boasting cybersecurity elder statesman Phil Zimmerman bolted from the Western hemisphere in the name of Swiss privacy laws and international neutrality. Three years later, Silent Circle is back in the United States. With relatively little fanfare and following millions of dollars in losses, the mobile security firm is now headquartered in Washington, D.C. It’s focusing on software security products instead of the hardware that initially earned global attention, and it’s aiming to ramp up sales to federal government as cybersecurity and IT modernization remains a focal point, CEO Gregg Smith told CyberScoop. The company recently signed partnerships with Dell and Cog Systems to that end. Among the active government customers Smith described are law enforcement units on the U.S.-Mexico border that employ Silent Circle software to guard against “the cartel’s 91 listening posts,” he said, which […]

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The new organization needed to digitally protect the U.S.

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Americans live in a digital glass house. Unless we do something radically different, that house is set to shatter. How much longer can we continue to tolerate the daily theft of our nation’s secrets, technological innovation and personal privacy from criminals and nation-states? The answer doesn’t lie with our government, nor with commercial firms. There is no magic pill, but there is a better way. Our corporations, universities and research centers are the lifeblood of global innovation, having pioneered society’s technological advancements over the past 75 years. Yet in spite of all the amazing innovation that has made the American economy the envy of the world, we remain the most digitally vulnerable business population on the planet. The U.S. has poured hundreds of billions of dollars into ensuring our offensive and defensive cybercapabilities are ahead of our adversaries. But our society and businesses remain vulnerable because every aspect of our […]

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The new organization needed to digitally protect the U.S.

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Americans live in a digital glass house. Unless we do something radically different, that house is set to shatter. How much longer can we continue to tolerate the daily theft of our nation’s secrets, technological innovation and personal privacy from criminals and nation-states? The answer doesn’t lie with our government, nor with commercial firms. There is no magic pill, but there is a better way. Our corporations, universities and research centers are the lifeblood of global innovation, having pioneered society’s technological advancements over the past 75 years. Yet in spite of all the amazing innovation that has made the American economy the envy of the world, we remain the most digitally vulnerable business population on the planet. The U.S. has poured hundreds of billions of dollars into ensuring our offensive and defensive cybercapabilities are ahead of our adversaries. But our society and businesses remain vulnerable because every aspect of our […]

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