BROWSING: Security

The number of connected devices in the medical is growing fast, and while these IoT devices will bring a greater efficiency and innovation to the medical field, allowing patients to receive better and fast care, there remains a serious problem around securing those devices....

Industrial IoT’s biggest problem? The fear of failure in a risk adverse industry. So says Ericsson, which recommends a two-pronged approach to spur takeup among overly-cautious manufacturing companies. The first fix is to drive starter IoT with proven low-level sensor solutions; the second is to...

LoRaWAN will work in the 2.4 GHz spectrum band, also occupied by Wi-Fi and Bluetooth systems, to enable LoRaWAN-based IoT devices to work globally at the same frequency for the first time, without needing to switch between sub-GHz bands in roaming.  That is the proposal,...

  Cisco introduced an IoT security architecture that provides enhanced visibility across both IT and IoT environments, and protects processes, the networking company said in a release. Cisco said its new solutions enable the collection and extraction of data from the IoT edge, so organizations can...

Waterfront Toronto, in charge of the $1 billion redevelopment of Toronto’s waterfront neighbourhood, has extended the deadline on whether to move forward with Google sister company Sidewalk Labs’ proposal for the smart city enclave. The board of Waterfront Toronto has extended the consultantion period from...

How does a mobile operator, in the business of airtime subscriptions, go beyond selling straight connectivity? Because this must be the goal, and the measure of ambition. There is no future in SIM cards, as we have argued – especially as technological innovation higher...

The first “neutral aggregating platform” for tracing the provenance of goods in the supply chain has launched, pulling together and making visible data from sundry blockchains. The World Economic Forum described it as a “self-service track-and-trace” blockchain platform at its general meeting in Davos this...

  Industrial IoT firm Seeq raises $24 million from equity sale Seattle-based industrial analytics company Seeq has raised $24 million from investors, according to a report in Computer Reseller News. Seeq has sold $24.3 million of equity to an unnamed investor group, according to the report, which...

  Cloudification of IoT accelerates Philippe Guillemette, chief technology officer, Sierra Wireless:  “The complexities that companies experience building out and maintaining IoT infrastructure has hindered growth of the sector, leading to the failure of as many as 75 per cent of IoT projects. “However, in 2020, we will see an...

  Ajay Rane, vice president for global business development, Sigfox: The IoT, and the networks that devices run on, are poised for growth and maturity in 2020. Key to this will be an expansion in network coverage, as well as a reduction in the cost of...

Kiva Allgood, head of IoT, Ericsson: 1. The edge is closer than ever “As enterprises become ‘digitized’ and enable more connected machines, sensors and solutions, computing in the cloud won’t be fast enough to optimize performance in real-time. Enterprises will need computing near the edge. This...

Stephen Mellor picks up where he left off, and where we left him: the challenge with industrial IoT to gain widespread adoption is as much to do with interpretation as with deployment. Different industrial disciplines have different demands, even if they sometimes appear the...

Nextivity, Spry Fox Networks to facilitate in-building 4G coverage for organizations across the U.K. In preparation for new Emergency Services Network (ESN) in the U.K., Nextivity and Spry Fox Networks are joining forces to facilitate uninterrupted, in-building 4G coverage for public and private sector organizations...

Honeywell assesses cyber threats for increasingly smart buildings Buildings will likely see an increase in cyber related threats in 2020?as they become more connected, putting data, reputation and people at potentially greater risk, according to a recently study by Honeywell. Honeywell recently released its predictions on...

Every year, the number of IoT devices expands drastically, a trend that has no real end in sight. For the PropTech industry, there is a great deal of concern around how to plan projects that can accommodate and secure all of the elements of...

Seven mining and metals companies have joined a World Economic Forum initiative to design and deploy blockchain solutions for the whole industry. The seven founding companies are Antofagasta Minerals, Eurasian Resources Group, Glencore, Klöckner & Co, Minsur, Tata Steel, Anglo American/De Beers (Tracr). The group...

A new global alliance has been established by ABB and Microsoft, alongside a cross-section of industrial technologists, to tackle cybersecurity threats to operational technology (OT), as it is increasingly connected to IT systems in order to drive new analytics and automation technologies. The new...

Global cybersecurity specialist Kaspersky said that it has detected 105 million attacks on IoT devices coming from 276,000 unique IP addresses in the first six months of the year. The company highlighted that this figure is seven times more than the number found in H1...

A recent surge in telehealth suggests that virtual care will rise in popularity in the coming years. Telemedicine offers an accessible way for patients to remotely connect with doctors for medical advice and diagnoses, particularly for patients who are unable to leave their homes.  Despite...

Hats off to the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC), which continues to publish comprehensive and constructive guides on how to design, deploy, and manage digital change systems in highly individualistic ‘vertical’ sectors, as part of this broader Industrie 4.0 concept. Its recent publication, Managing and Assessing...

A recent report from Consumer Watchdog in the US about connected cars as “killing machines” – on the grounds their systems can be hacked, leading to terrorist-style attacks on critical infrastructure – sounds alarmist. But take it from the car makers themselves, as quoted...

The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) is piloting a contract automation tool that uses artificial intelligence to negotiate between industrial companies, without human involvement, to arrive at contract terms both sides can settle on. In recent weeks, the organisation has also issued comprehensive and constructive guides on trust and...

Cisco, Lenovo, Nokia, Schneider Electric, and Vodafone have joined IBM’s new Trust Your Supplier (TYS) blockchain project to bring efficiency, order, and accountability to the supply chain. Belgian brewing company Anheuser-Busch InBev and UK pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline have also joined as ‘founding participlants’, alongside these...

A coordinated cyber-attack on connected cars in the US could case thousands of deaths and cripple national infrastructure, according to a new report from Consumer Watchdog, which goes so far as to compare the potential impact with the 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York...