Oracle chief outlines future threats and a new security system to frustrate hackers.
With recent data breaches taking down major companies, it seems that hackers are always one step ahead of our computer security measures. But now tech giant Oracle is taking on hackers, with a new security system they say is built to anticipate the future of hacking.
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison announced the new systems earlier this week at a company sponsored tech conference in San Francisco, according to Business Insider. The company’s new “M7 SPARC” chips include what Oracle calls “Always-on Security in Silicon,” which means they were developed with always-on security measures built-in.
The chips block hackers’ access to the computer’s memory, making it impossible for them to steal stored data, which is also encrypted. In addition, the computer is continuously scrambling and unscrambling the encryption, making password-breaking virtually impossible, while creating no drag on the computer’s overall performance.
Oracle is also making major use of cloud services, putting all of its hardware on its own cloud, including the new M& servers.
Ellison explained that while today’s hackers are interested in stealing data, in the future hackers will aim at more sinister security breaches. For example, he said that hackers could change data, like bank account balances or even air traffic control data.
He noted that the U.S. and Israel had already used data hacking to hamper Iran’s nuclear weapons research, by changing the settings on lab equipment, forcing the machines to malfunction.