Business mission to the Netherlands

At the beginning of March, the founders of the TeskaLabs, Aleš Teska (CEO) and Vladimíra Tesková (COO), participated in a business mission to the Netherlands, the topic of which was cybersecurity. The agenda included meetings with representatives of companies, educational and research organizations, discussions and sharing of experience in the fight against cybercrime or a look behind the scenes of top Dutch government and private institutions.

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Published on March 15, 2023


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And the winner is...Go!

What compiled language for a backend development is the right one to move our technological stack to the next level? We've started to look around for a compiled computer language that will enable us to build microservices with higher performance. Now, don't get me wrong, we don't depart from Python at all. It is the extension of the portfolio.

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Published on November 15, 2021

C-ITS: The European Commission is updating the list of the Root Certificates

23rd April 2021 marks the release of the fifth edition of the European Certificate Trust List (ECTL). This was released by the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (EC JRC), and is used in Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS). It is otherwise known as the L0 edition release, intended for use primarily in test and pilot deployments. Currently these activities are primarily European and focus on fields such as intelligent cars and road infrastructure.

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Published on May 06, 2021

TeskaLabs at the ETSI 1st C-V2X Plugtest

After a succesfull ETSI C-ITS Security plugtest at November 2019, TeskaLabs participated also at the ETSI 1st C-V2X Plugtest at DEKRA Testing & Certification Malaga Location, Spain, from 2nd to 6th December 2019. C-V2X is a new standard of how vehicles communicates among each other using a cellular network.

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Published on December 15, 2019

TeskaLabs at the ETSI 7th CMS Plugtest validating C-ITS security

It is our great pleasure to announce that TeskaLabs successfully participated at the ETSI 7th CMS Plugtest at Sophia Antipolis, France, from 4th to 7th November 2019. This V2X plugtest was focused on testing C-ITS cyber security, interoperability and a validation of the European trust domain.

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Published on November 15, 2019

How we work at TeskaLabs

How we work at TeskaLabs. We understand that our lives are finite so we focus on things that truly matters. We build the company that builds great products.

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Published on September 15, 2019

Personal Data Deindetification: Pseudonymization

Pseudonymization is a critical part of GDPR compliance although there are no explicit GDPR pseudonymization requirements. The regulation vaguely states that businesses must enforce safeguards and security measures to protect all consumer data that they handle. The GDPR refers to pseudonymization and encryption as “appropriate technical and organizational measures.

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Published on July 15, 2018

Building a private cloud on AMD Ryzen and Linux Containers

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Published on July 01, 2018

Personal Data Deindetification: Homomorphic encryption

Homomorphic encryption is a special type of encryption invented by IBM. Encryption is a critical part of GDPR compliance although there are no explicit GDPR encryption requirements. The regulation vaguely states that businesses must enforce safeguards and security measures to protect all consumer data that they handle. The GDPR refers to pseudonymization and encryption as “appropriate technical and organizational measures.

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Published on June 14, 2018

Personal Data Deindetification: Data masking (or suppression)

Data masking (or suppression) represents the de fact standard of pseudonymisation. Pseudonymisation is a critical part of GDPR compliance although there are no explicit GDPR pseudonymisation requirements. The regulation vaguely states that businesses must enforce safeguards and security measures to protect all consumer data that they handle. The GDPR refers to pseudonymization and encryption as “appropriate technical and organizational measures.

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Published on June 11, 2018

Personal Data Deindetification: Data Encryption

Data encryption is a critical part of GDPR compliance although there are no explicit GDPR encryption requirements. The regulation vaguely states that businesses must enforce safeguards and security measures to protect all consumer data that they handle. The GDPR refers to pseudonymization and encryption as “appropriate technical and organizational measures.

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Published on May 16, 2018

Personal Data Deindetification: Anonymization

If you manage private data of any kind, you need to be familiar with the process of anonymization and how it can be used to keep the information you store safe from data breaches.

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Published on April 16, 2018

TeskaLabs Annual Report 2017

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Published on March 16, 2018

Pseudonymization, Anonymization, Encryption ... what is the difference?

The year 2018 will, at least in Europe, be a turning point for data privacy and personal information protection. In this article, I will focus on personal data processing. I describe methods of de-identification of personal data, such as pseudonymization, anonymization, and encryption.

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Published on November 28, 2017

How Productive Is a Company Retreat to Tenerife for Startups?

I would like to share with you an exciting experience that we at TeskaLabs recently had. I founded TeskaLabs three years ago, as a startup focusing on building communication and security technologies for connected products such as mobile applications and IoT devices. Over that time, my team and I have witnessed so much. We’ve been a part of the TechStars program in London and worked closely with eKasa, who have tested our business and technology to its limits.

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Published on July 22, 2017

Binary distributions of OpenSSL static libraries

The official source of OpenSSL software is the OpenSSL website. One can download OpenSSL source codes archives and compile them for a given platform. The compilation work can sometimes be quite tedious, especially for exotic platforms. We, at TeskaLabs, set up this page because we frequently compile OpenSSL for various platforms for our internal purposes and this may save some time to other developers.

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Published on July 20, 2017

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Published on January 17, 2017

SeaCat and OpenSSL Heartbleed Bug

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Published on December 20, 2016

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Published on May 19, 2016

Q&A: Mobile App Developers Asked How SeaCat Will Protect Their Apps, Backend, and the Data. Here Are the Answers

We've spent a great deal of time talking to mobile app developers to understand their approach to handling mobile application security. In this Q&A, we put together the answers to the most common questions asked by these app developers.

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Published on May 07, 2015

SeaCat Starter Pack for iOS

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Published on April 02, 2015

The Golden Age of Black Hats

I experienced a precious moment, discovering the cause which contributed to today's dire state of mobile application security. App developers think that if their apps do not deal with money, they should not have to care about app security. Is it true?

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Published on February 24, 2015

What Can We Do as Mobile App Developers in This BYOD Era?

Today we live in a mobile environment. There are more mobile devices connected to the Internet than human beings in the world. This has given us more freedom to choose to work from anywhere, anytime and given us the flexibility to take care of other important matters.

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SeaCat Tutorial - Chapter 5: Using Parse.com with REST Integration (iOS)

As the market with Cloud Computing and Mobile devices is getting bigger, there is another specific option available. It's called (Mobile)Backend-As-A-Service (BAAS) and it is extremely useful in situations we want to subscribe a complex backend service (alongside the core backend solution, there is usually a lot of additional functionality and statistics) and primary focus on development of client part of mobile apps for instance.

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Published on January 31, 2015

SeaCat Tutorial - Chapter 4: Using MongoDB with REST Integration (iOS)

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SeaCat tutorial - Chapter 3: Introduction to REST Integration (iOS)

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SeaCat tutorial - Chapter 2: Simple Post (iOS)

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Published on September 09, 2014

SeaCat tutorial - Chapter 1: Hello World (iOS)

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Published on August 18, 2014

SeaCat Mobile Secure Gateways' Performance Test

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Published on July 21, 2014

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Published on May 23, 2014

SeaCat Mobile Secure Gateway Architecture

SeaCat Mobile Secure Gateway is built using the SeaCat Application Security Platform. It provides strong protection against multiple types of cyberattacks by securing all application components, including the mobile application, network paths, which present an entry point to the enterprise network and application’s backend servers. It reduces an administrator's workload with easy PKI administration of distributed large-scale mobile applications. SeaCat Security Platform has been carefully designed to be flexible, fast, and highly secure.

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Published on May 18, 2014