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Are the utilities ready for IoT? – Part One

It doesn’t matter if you are a utility company in the UK, Europe or beyond, the issues you face daily in the boardroom are the same, writes Adrian Crawley, the regional director of Northern EMEA for Radware. How will you become more efficient, save money and give the customer more value and differentiate your brand? (more…)

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May 4, 2016

Posted by: George Malim

Under the bonnet of automotive security

The security and privacy implications for the automotive industry are growing as cars increasingly become computers on wheels, writes Art Dahnert a consultant at Cigital. (more…)

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May 3, 2016

Posted by: George Malim

Marginal gains increase productivity

One of the major challenges to economic advancement is low productivity, writes Stephen Chadwick, the managing director for EuroNorth at Dassault Systèmes . Growth can come from either more employment or higher productivity but while employment in the UK growing productivity is not as high as it could be. Since growth defines our wealth both as a nation and as individuals it is in our interests to see it rise. (more…)

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April 29, 2016

Posted by: George Malim

Make your smart home smarter

Cast your mind back to the winter of 2014. The UK was at a complete standstill because of unexpected snow. Thousands of cars were left on the side of roads as the public was forced to trudge home in the freezing cold, the thought of being back in their home with the central heating on full blast the only thought encouraging them to keep on walking, writes Martin Woolley, the Bluetooth SIG technical programme manager. Alas! Nearly half way home they realised that they forgot to set the timer for the heating. If only they could set the timer remotely. (more…)

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Posted by: George Malim

IoT and transforming the digital enterprise

As IoT becomes integral to engineering and heavy industry, Michael Segal, the director of marketing at Netscout, discusses the digital transformation experienced by companies in these sectors and how the CIO will lead the transformation and ensure business assurance. (more…)

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April 27, 2016

Posted by: George Malim

Smart cities – they may be smart but are they secure?

As the UK starts to get smart with the roll-out of smart meters and a plethora of local council initiatives, Rob Miller, a senior security researcher at MWR InfoSecurity, looks at other smart cities around the world to see what lessons can be learned before we become too smart and get burned. (more…)

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April 26, 2016

Posted by: George Malim

Use virtual drive testing to verify connected car connectivity

Many analysts expect that by 2025 all new cars will be equipped with advanced connectivity using a wide range of communications technologies, writes Karolina Eklund, the head of marketing at Anite. As a result, we are likely to see a comprehensive need for verifying this introduced connectivity. (more…)

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April 25, 2016

Posted by: George Malim

Digitisation in the public sector heralds a healthier Britain

The British public and UK businesses expect government information to be readily available online in easy to understand formats at no, or at least very low cost, writes Stephen Chadwick, the managing director for EuroNorth at Dassault Systèmes. (more…)

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April 22, 2016

Posted by: George Malim

IoT security – it’s a job for PAM

According to a recent Gartner report, 43% of organisations are using, or plan to implement, an Internet of Things (IoT) policy by the end of this year, writes William Culbert, the director of solutions engineering EMEA at Bomgar. (more…)

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April 21, 2016

Posted by: George Malim

Industrie 4.0 and the monitoring of things

At the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos earlier this year the theme was the Fourth Industrial Revolution, a theme that the founder of the WEF, Klaus Schwab, had a great deal of investment in, both as an engineer and as a German, writes Dirk Paessler, the chief executive of Paessler. (more…)

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April 20, 2016

Posted by: George Malim