Insyde® Software and Eclypsium to Highlight Best Practices for Secure Firmware Updates at UEFI 2020 Virtual Plugfest

Companies’ Chief Technology Officers to Present on Hardening Platform Security Through Updates and Patching During Online Industry Event

HILLSBORO, OR – August 11, 2020 – Insyde® Software, a leading provider of UEFI BIOS and system management software, today announced that it will be co-presenting with enterprise firmware security firm Eclypsium on the topic of secure firmware updates and patching at the UEFI 2020 Virtual Plugfest. The UEFI virtual plugfest is a free-to-attend online event that is open to the public and features educational webinars presented by UEFI Forum members.

The presentation will be delivered by Tim Lewis, CTO and head of the Office of Security & Trust at Insyde Software and Eclypsium’s CTO and co-founder Alex Bazhaniuk on August 19, 2020. Titled “Best Practices for Secure Firmware Patching,” the webinar will provide critical guidance, including best practices, industry insights, and much more to help educate attendees on methods for firmware updating and patching as part of a successful enterprise security strategy.

Insyde Software and The UEFI Forum encourage companies to participate in the UEFI 2020 Virtual Plugfest by registering for upcoming webinars at http://www.uefi.org/events.

About Eclypsium
Eclypsium protects organizations from the foundation of their computing infrastructure upward, controlling the risk and stopping threats inside firmware of laptops, servers, and networking infrastructure across enterprise endpoints, data centers and cloud infrastructure. The Eclypsium enterprise firmware protection platform is built on decades of firmware threat research and real-world experience pioneering the open source project CHIPSEC. Eclypsium’s solution proactively finds and manages firmware risk and protects from firmware-based threats at all of the key points in the hardware lifecycle, from deployment to operational use. Eclypsium is headquartered in the Portland, OR area.

About Insyde Software
Insyde Software (www.insyde.com) is a leading worldwide provider of UEFI firmware, system management solutions and custom engineering services for companies in the mobile, server, desktop and IoT (Internet-of-Things) computing industries. The company is publicly held (GTSM: 6231) and headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan with U.S. headquarters in Westborough, MA. The company’s customers include the world’s leading computing, communications and storage device designers and manufacturers.

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