Gemalto
Thales Closes €4.8 Billion Gemalto Deal, Pledges Aggressive Global Expansion
French multinational Thales has completed its €4.8 billion acquisition of the Netherlands' Gemalto, creating a digital security heavyweight with a combined…
The Russians Can Wait: Thales Tweaks Offer Terms for Gemalto Buyout
Paris-based security multinational Thales has tweaked its offer conditions for a €4.8 billion buyout of Holland's Gemalto, saying it is…
Gemalto Gets Ready to release Industry First 5G Sim Card
Amsterdam-based digital security company Gemalto has developed an industry-first 5G SIM card. A key feature in the new 5G SIM…
nCipher Security Up for Sale: Expects to Select Bidder Within Weeks
UK-founded encryption hardware specialist nCipher Security is back on the market, eleven years after being bought by French aerospace and…
EU Demands Divestment as it Approves Thales’ €4.8 Billion Gemalto Takeover
The European Commission has approved the €4.8 billion ($5.6 billion) takeover of Gemalto by France's defence multinational Thales Group, despite…
MasterCard Set to Conduct 16 Week Trial of Biometric Bank Card in Italy
Italian bank Intesa Sanpaolo is due to begin a four-month trial of a Mastercard banking card containing a biometric fingerprint…
6 Months, 945 Data Breaches, 4.5 Billion Records
From Adidas (two million records compromised) to Facebook (up to two billion accounts scraped), 2018 has seen more than its…
The True Cost of a Data Breach
From the implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) back in May, which fundamentally changed the rulebook for storing…
EU Commission Opens Investigation into Gemalto Acquisition by Thales
The European Commission has opened an ‘in-depth’ investigation into the takeover of Gemalto by French Aerospace and security contractor Thales…
Gemalto Reveals Businesses Collect More Data Than They Handle
More than two in three companies (65 percent) are unable to analyse the data they collect according to a recent…