On December 5, 2023, IBM announced the launch of IBM Hyper Protect Offline Signing Orchestrator (OSO), an air-gapped cold storage solution for digital assets, stated Cointelegraph.
“When it comes to offline or physically air-gapped cold storage, there are limitations, including privileged administrator access, operational costs and errors and the inability to truly scale. All these limitations are due to one underlying factor, human interaction,” as per insights from the IBM report.
Sources revealed that IBM designed OSO to address these vulnerabilities by removing the manual functions of initiating and conducting transactions, added Cointelegraph.
Experts believe to ensure OSO’s resilience to attack, digital assets can be placed in “air-gapped” storage containers. Storage is considered air-gapped when it is not connected to the Internet or any device capable of connecting to the Internet. This is expected to ensure remote attacks can’t access assets while at rest, Cointelegraph concluded.
(With insights from Cointelegraph)