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Allot sees growing business opportunities in the US for its IoT solution

  The Israeli company recently inked a deal to provide its IoT solution to a Tier 1 U.S. network operator   Network intelligence and security provider Allot is seeing business opportunities in the U.S. market for its IoT solution, Ran Fridman, executive VP of worldwide sales at...

Merkel urges China to provide safeguards to allow Huawei in 5G contracts

The German Chancellor said Chinese authorities need to provide guarantees they will not have access to data handled by Huawei German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that the Chinese government needs to provide guarantees that it will not have access to data handled by Huawei Technologies...

UK says security review on telecom supply chain to be completed in March

As more countries scrutinize Huawei, the government is currently assessing potential security threats for local telecom network infrastructure A government review into telecoms security which will recommend whether Huawei should be banned from U.K. telecom networks is expected to be completed in March, Sky News...

Gemalto finds nearly half of businesses can’t detect IoT device breaches

  The study said that organizations believes blockchain technology would be ideal to solve security concerns in the IoT field   Nearly half of businesses -- 53% -- cannot detect if any of their internet of things devices suffers a breach, according to a recent study by...

BlackBerry targets smart city projects with new offering

  The Canadian firm has launched a security credential management system service to accelerate the development of smart city and transportation systems   Canadian company BlackBerry has announced the launch of a new service to help the private and public sectors accelerate the development of smart cities...

Kudelski, Pepper IoT ink deal to protect US retailers

  The two companies said they will work together to influence best practices for retailers to minimize risk of cybersecurity threats   U.S. provider internet of things provider Pepper IoT has inked a long-term deal with Swiss digital security firm Kudelski Group to protect IoT service providers...

Five stops on the federal road map toward botnet resilience

Cybersecurity road map aims to support more secure and resilient IoT development for consumer, enterprise and government users If there is a path to a digital world that is more secure and resistant to botnet attacks, what would that path look like? A newly published U.S....

EU, US smart cities target data access, abuse, bias with coalition on digital rights

Amsterdam, Barcelona and New York City have launched a  smart cities coalition for digital rights to protect citizens’ data and digital rights. The new 'cities coalition for digital rights' coalition said the same human rights people have offline must also be protected in the digital...

German car makers interested in deploying own 5G networks

  BMW, Volkswagen and Daimler have already expressed interest in operating private 5G networks for their plants German car makers are looking to deploy their own 5G networks in order to start manufacturing self-driving cars by 2021, German press reported. Under such a scenario, car makers would...

Spirent talks automating service assurance for 5G

The pending commercialization and future expansion of 5G creates a number of challenges for operators, service assurance chief among them—given the massive infrastructure investment, it's imperative to understand the quality of new services. As this shift plays out with U.S. operators leading the charge,...

Sprint, Vodafone call on Arm to embed and secure IoT connectivity

Operators Sprint and Vodafone have backed Arm’s integrated SIM (iSIM) technology to help the internet-of-things (IoT) market reach scale. Sprint confirmed it is working with fellow Softbank companies Arm and Packet on its new IoT platform, announced last week. Swedish vendor Ericsson has been handed...

Turkcell in talks with telcos to share digital transformation know-how: CEO

The Turkish operator said it is in talks with nearly 30 companies from all over the world to discuss ways to create digital economies MUNICH, GERMANY--Turkish mobile operator Turkcell is currently having talks with about 30 different operators with the main aim of sharing the...

Cisco expects large investments in 5G to occur in 2020, CEO says

Cisco’s revenues for fiscal Q4 were up 6% year-on-year Cisco foresees large investments by telecom operators in 5G technologies in 2020, the company’s CEO Chuck Robbins said on a conference call with investors. “We expect that is still a year out before many will start ...

Five ways Sigfox alarms are helping farmers fight robbers, rustlers and vandals

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...

Trump signs defense bill banning US agencies from buying tech from Huawei, ZTE

  The Chinese government said it will review the impact of the measure U.S. President Donald Trump has signed the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, which includes new regulations that ban government agencies doing business with Chinese vendors Huawei and ZTE. The bill prohibits the U.S....

IBM X-Force Red, Threatcare warn about smart city vulnerabilities

The team of researches have tested smart city systems from Libelium, Echelon and Battelle   A team of researchers from Threatcare and IBM X-Force Red have joined forces to test several smart city devices, with the specific goal of finding vulnerabilities in smart city systems. Earlier this...

AI and 5G go hand-in-hand for network operations

As network attacks get more sophisticated, AI can help with threat detection As it continues to develop, 5G will become increasingly complex. The need to deploy virtualized, programmable infrastructure becomes more pressing as new bandwidth-consuming enterprise, industrial and consumer applications hit the market. And, in...

Blockchain for the supply chain: great in theory, hard in practice, says food industry

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...

Sprint, NXM Labs connected car platform sports blockchain security

Sprint will add NXM's blockchain security technology into its connected car module due out in fall. Cars, like any device with chips embedded and connected to the outside word, can be hacked. It’s happened since 2015, when two engineers famously hacked a Jeep Cherokee. Since...

Key challenges of visual fog computing

To understand visual fog computing, it is important to first understand fog computing. Let’s take a look at how the physical world connects to the cloud. Think of the physical world at the bottom of a pyramid, and the cloud as the top. At the...

7 IoT product design best practices

Regardless of the hyperbole constantly hammered home by marketing departments, IoT as a tangible entity is embryonic. We’re at the very early stages of the IoT learning curve, so it should be no surprise that the success rate for IoT adopters has been in...

How to design an enterprise IoT system

Perhaps the most succinct definition of the internet of things comes from an April 26, 2018 blog by Sharada Prahladrao of ARC: ”Everyone, everywhere is connected to everything.” With that broad a definition (and appeal), it’s no surprise that it’s spreading into many areas....

Five IoT embedded design best practices

The Internet of Things (IoT) promises big market potential and infinite opportunities, but success is not guaranteed. A study done by Cisco showed that only 26% of all IoT projects come to fruition. By applying these five best practices in embedded design, you will...

Three reasons why three-quarters of IIoT projects fail, according to Cisco

Three quarters of enterprise-based ‘internet of things’ (IoT) projects are failing, reckons US networking specialist Cisco. This is an alarming statistic, especially when considered in the context of the head-spinning growth of new IoT deployments. Analyst house IDC calculates the total base of installed IoT...