The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed our economy and its participants to a stress level we’ve only seen a small handful of times throughout recorded history — the last being the Great Depression nearly 90 years ago. According to data from the International Monetary Fund, the cumulative loss to global GDP over 2020 and 2021 from the current pandemic crisis could be $9 trillion, greater than the economies of Japan and Germany combined.
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Verimatrix Calls Time On Hardware Security
Pay TV operators are abandoning traditional smartcard based CA (Conditional Access) systems to adopt software solutions, according to revenue security vendor Verimatrix. But ironically this trend has been accelerated by incorporation of ASIC security cores inside set-top box and gateway SoCs (System on Chips), blurring the distinction between hardware and software security.