Low-power wide-area (LPWA) networks like Sigfox are providing the platform for internet-of-thing (IoT) based alarm systems that are cheap and easy to install. They also provide coverage to rural areas, which 3G and 4G based alarm systems struggle to cover.
Rural crime is a growing...
Following BlackHat 2018, there has been more discussion around IoT security. During the conference, Ijay Palansky, a partner at law firm Armstrong Teasdale, which represented plaintiffs in the 2015 hacking of a Jeep in transit, warned there was a law of understanding of IoT...
IoT gateway provider Libelium's Meshlium Manager System had web vulnerabilities, which were open to Mirai-style botnet attacks. Libelium said it has corrected the faults.
The Meshlium Manager System receives data from sensors and forwards the information directly to the Internet. The gateway is used for...
Trying to keep intruders out of your network is like trying to keep vermin out of a house in a bad neighborhood. The rodents and insects never stop trying to get in, and the best you can do is slow them down, minimize the...
British defence technology company Qinetiq, heavily involved in the UK 5G testbed project in Worcestershire, has warned next-generation 5G wireless networks will open businesses up to cyber threats.
The GSMA predicts as many as 1.4 billion 5G connections will be live by 2025, with revenue...
IBM has announced a new cybersecurity testing facility for its X-Force Red ethical hacking team at its campus in Austin, Texas, alongside three further testing sites, in Atlanta, Georgia, in the US, Hursley, England, in the UK, and Melbourne, in Australia.
The network of facilities,...
IoT security is top-of-mind for governments, enterprises
Speaking during a Fortinet event in Singapore last week, the U.K.-based Centre for Strategic Cyber Space and Security Science (CSCSS) announced that it is planning to launch a new IoT security standard in September 2018.
The organisation's Asia-Pacific Executive...
Cloud-based building management systems, IoT devices, and remote mobile connectivity are rapidly transforming today?s facilities and security management ecosystem in the commercial real estate sector saving valuable time in the event of an emergency by placing ?human sensors? in the field. For property owners...
More than 160 companies and organisations from 36 countries working with artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, including the founders of Tesla and Google DeepMind, have signed a pledge not to develop, make, sell or use lethal autonomous weapons.
The signing is the first of its kind,...
New research by McKinsey Global Institute has evaluated the planet’s smartest cities on both their underlying infrastructure and their over-lying applications, and ranked them in order on both counts. Here, we consider the second of these measures - the top 10 smart cities, globally,...
IoT is key to building efficiency, but cybersecurity has to be addressed
While the buildings we work and live in are getting better, smarter, and more connected as we speak, they are also becoming exponentially more vulnerable to cyber attacks, which means cybersecurity measures are...
Mobile operators from every region have backed the GSMA’s new IoT security guidelines. AT&T is the only US operator so far to have committed to the GSMA measures; it is joined by the leading operator brands in Europe and China.
The GSMA guidelines make 85...
Microsoft has made its Azure IoT Edge service ‘generally available’, and added new categories including device management and security to its Azure IoT Edge catalogue.
It has also made Azure IoT Edge available on open source developer platform GitHub, which Microsoft acquired for $7.5 billion last...
The practicalities of implementing decentralised blockchain governance, and the fear it raises within the supply chain about a lack of control, remain major stumbling blocks for the technology, said a panel from the food industry at Blockchain Expo in Amsterdam.
The distributed ledger technology remains...
The OPC Foundation has said security vulnerabilities found by Kaspersky Labs in its OPC-UA framework, designed for secure data transfer between clients and servers in industrial systems, were in fact discovered in outdated versions of the OPC UA protocol.
Reviewing the Kaspersky Labs findings, from...
Incoming 5G technologies will put industrial applications front and centre, and enable new functionalities in critical communications, according to IHS Markit.
The research house told Enterprise IoT Insights at Critical Communications World (CCW) in Berlin last week 5G will impact industrial space in the way...
While personal data breaches keep cyber security in the headlines, the topic of privacy lacks the drama of a high-profile hack. That is a shame, since privacy and cyber security are closely related. Privacy is usually defined as the right to be left alone,...
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has warned enterprises all over the world are face a “nightmare” with the security of everyday devices connecting to their networks. Manufacturers of new ‘internet of things’ (IoT) devices are not thinking about security by design,...
Vendors Nokia, Huawei and Motorola Solutions variously talked up next-generation command centres at Critical Communications World (CCW) in Berlin this week. The trio offered multi-media public safety packages that variously make use of ‘internet of things’ (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI) techniques, and seek...
Europe’s incoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) could take public safety companies by surprise, and even force them to shut down. This was the view, as technology companies at Critical Communications World (CCW) in Berlin showed facial recognition technology (FRT) and biometric solutions for...
Healthcare, smart cities and connected vehicles will be the three enterprise IoT ‘verticals’ most impacted by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which comes into force next week.
Analysts suggest these market sectors, outside of the consumer internet of things (IoT) market, will be under...
Cisco appears to have found its rhythm in the enterprise IoT space by integrating communications technologies and data streams in its Kinetic platform for smart factories and smart cities. Enterprise IoT Insights caught up with Bryan Tantzen, in charge of its manufacturing IoT business,...
Completely securing the industrial ‘internet of things’ (IIoT) is hopeful at best, according to companies and analysts at Hannover Messe last week.
The Germany-based industrial fair was focused on connecting factories and supply chains; the process to secure new devices and networks was the principle...
Microsoft has announced a new platform to secure ‘internet of things’ (IoT) devices. Dubbed Azure Sphere, it layers in three levels of enhanced IoT security, in its chip, operating system (OS) and cloud.
Most significantly, Microsoft has introduced a new “cross-over class” of chip, or...
