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What is the current state of mobile security? Part 2

If you’re like most people, your phone is by your side throughout your day. Thanks to payment apps, mobile GPS and mobile banking, our phones now double as a wallet, map, bank and so much more. (more…)

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July 21, 2017

Posted by: Avadhoot Patil

What is the current state of mobile security? Part 1

If you’re like most people, your phone is by your side throughout your day. Thanks to payment apps, mobile GPS and mobile banking, our phones now double as a wallet, map, bank and so much more. (more…)

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July 20, 2017

Posted by: Avadhoot Patil

If an attack is successfully monetised, expect similar attacks to follow: Some preventive security steps

Adversaries are constantly evolving. Success breeds copy-cats. And security is multifaceted. These are some of the key lessons Jeremy Cowan takes away from talking to Ted Harrington, executive partner, Independent Security Evaluators. (more…)

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July 19, 2017

Posted by: Avadhoot Patil

Balancing risk with IoT benefits: How industrial plants can be secured against hacking

The British media widely reported how the recent WannaCry cyber attack largely targeted NHS trusts across the country. However, what was not as widely reported was that the attack also affected many factories across the world, shutting down production and causing concerns about data security. (more…)

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July 18, 2017

Posted by: Avadhoot Patil

Four ways to reinforce your SME against cyber threats

Despite its name, the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector is colossal in terms of size and revenue, says Sneha Paul, product consultant at ManageEngine. (more…)

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July 17, 2017

Posted by: Avadhoot Patil

Could your IoT solution survive on Silk Road 4.0? Submit your ideas now

Regular readers will remember our exclusive article on the madcap, multinational, multilingual scheme to ride deep into the heart of China along the old Silk Road. (See: Two motorcycles, 10,000 km along Silk Road 4.0, the Internet of Things … and you?) Well, now it’s getting serious, says Jeremy Cowan. (more…)

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July 13, 2017

Posted by: Avadhoot Patil

How are applications leading the connected technology revolution?

The world, today, is running with the power of smartphones and with mobile devices nudging towards the connected technology, the apps are becoming the main force behind the acceleration of connected technology. (more…)

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Posted by: Avadhoot Patil

AWS Greengrass, Ubuntu, and the upcoming boom in Edge computing

The growth of the edge computing market has been well-documented. BI Intelligence predicted that 5.6 billion Enterprise and Government IoT devices will be connected to edge devices by 2020 – up from approximately 15 billion today. (more…)

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July 12, 2017

Posted by: Avadhoot Patil

A random look at IoT security

The traditional concept of a corporate security perimeter has been fading slowly for at least a decade. The cloud put it on life support and the IoT will kill it off for good. The IoT presents a whole new set of challenges and on a completely different scale. (more…)

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July 11, 2017

Posted by: Avadhoot Patil

Transatel pleads for new pillars of IoT security

On May 22nd 2017, the European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA) issued a position paper raising this very issue of IoT security. Together with major actors of the semiconductor industry (Infineon, NXP, STMicroelectonics), the agency warned of a “market failure” in IoT security so far: it’s important to act now. (more…)

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July 10, 2017

Posted by: Avadhoot Patil