Quected recently engaged Finite State to rigorously test its IoT modules
Quectel has been prioritizing security across its entire portfolio and has been implementing rigorous security measures to ensure the integrity of its products and services as well as its customers’ privacy and data, Norbert...
Property crime is the most common type of criminality in the U.S. There are 2.5 million burglaries annually in the U.S., 66% of which are home invasions, while the other 34% affect small businesses. Yet only 25% of Americans have a home security system...
As industries, businesses and consumers become increasingly reliant on the connected economy, its potential as the bedrock of digital transformation continues to grow. Yet with great opportunity also comes great risk. As IoT adoption accelerates, so too does potential for exploitation from bad actors.
To...
Booz Allen opened the 5G lab in Annapolis Junction, Maryland to support mission-critical applications
Information technology consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton earlier this week opened a 5G lab in Annapolis Junction, Maryland to support mission-critical client work. In addition to providing Booz Allen’s cloud, network...
Insecurity affects us all, whether we own several smart home devices, hundreds of connected cameras, or thousands of industrial sensors. In fact, a report by Cybersecurity Ventures estimates that cybercrime will cost the world more than US$6 trillion annually by next year. And as...
FIDO Device Onboard (FDO) protocol focused on maintaining security as IoT devices are connected
Founded in 2012, the FIDO (Fast IDentity Online) Alliance began with a focus on developing "authentication standards to help reduce the world's over-reliance on passwords." As the group has grown in...
Mona Noor, a product manager at Nokia, dives into some of the biggest security threats our networks will have to deal with in a 5G era, compares the inherent security of cloud and on-premise servers and explains why home IoT devices aren't built to...
“Those who know history are doomed to watch others repeat it.” This bitter observation is something we see frequently when it comes to upholding the security, privacy, and safety regulations governing Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Sometimes it seems like we are doomed to...
End-to-end IoT security remains the top short-term priority for most respondents
The latest survey conducted by the Internet of Things World and Omdia found that “an overwhelming majority” — 85% — of the 170 IoT industry leaders surveyed believe that security concerns remain a major...
In 2017, President Donald Trump issued an executive order focused on cybersecurity that specifically called out the need for a federal response to internet-of-things-based botnet attacks. That led to a botnet "roadmap" being developed by late 2018 and a series of federal efforts to...
We as humans like patterns. We like trends, labels and buzzwords. We like to fit our problems into a category that can be easily solved by one answer and when this can’t be done, the labels by which we categorize our problems become more...
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....
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,...
In my previous articles here, and here, I explained the rationale for increased focus on device security and its challenges. The threats are more acute, especially from unknown foreign vendors offering predatory pricing. After reading the articles, a few people questioned me about the...
Microsoft: "If not addressed, industry challenges may compromise benefits to IoT"
Microsoft Corp.’s new research report IoT Signals is designed to provide a global overview of the IoT landscape. The vendor-neutral report surveyed over 3,000 IoT decision-makers in enterprise organizations in order to give the industry...
Nowadays, security and privacy are on everybody’s mind. Hardly a day goes by without the news of security breaches at major institutions. Most of the time, the reporting is focused on the cloud or network infrastructure, hardly ever on devices. However, when it comes...
The Internet of Things (IoT) is generating a great deal of excitement across all verticals, especially as operators ramp up plans for 5G networks. IoT increasingly is being used across a broad spectrum of industries, as well as in the consumer segment. Globally, IoT...
The UK government has set out a plan to secure and protect consumer IoT devices from cyber attacks. It is considering a mandatory labelling scheme to rate the security of IoT devices, and inform consumers how secure their devices and appliances really are.
It is...
One of the areas of focus for CableLabs, the cable industry's research and development group, is in how to improve the security of internet of things devices -- both those that are already in users' homes, and those that will emerge in the near...
Spirent says operators in the U.S. and Mexico are accelerating network automation
Spirent Communications says it is supporting an accelerated expansion of network automation by multiple, unnamed "top North American mobile operators" in the U.S. and Mexico.
Spirent said that the expansion comes on top of...
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...
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...
