Panasonic Business’s 120m2 booth at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona (Hall 6 Booth H31) will feature technology for retail, car rental, communications, security, logistics and ground handling. It aims to bring together the automotive, business technology, industrial and eco solutions divisions within Panasonic. (more…)
February 24, 2017
Posted by: Avadhoot Patil
NEC Iberica, a wholly owned subsidiary of NEC Europe, launched a new version of its smart city product offering, the Cloud City Operation Centre (CCOC). (more…)
December 7, 2016
Posted by: Avadhoot Patil
In the British model of policing, officers exercise their powers with the implicit consent of the public – termed ‘policing by consent’. In other words, the legitimacy of policing in the eyes of the public is based on a general consensus of support which follows from transparency about the powers of the police, their integrity in exercising those powers and their accountability for doing so, writes James Wickes, the chief executive and co-founder of Cloudview. (more…)
September 17, 2016
Posted by: George Malim
In the first part of this two-part series, Tyco’s Simon Gawne examined the technical obstacles to a cyber-secure IoT-based security network. Here, he outlines the cultural changes which organisations must go through if they are to ensure that every entry point is effectively guarded. (more…)
September 1, 2016
Posted by: George Malim
The Internet of Things (IoT) is playing an increasingly large role in physical security, as perimeter-guarding devices such as CCTV and access management begin to take advantage of IP-based communications. Devices now have the power to share information faster than ever before and across a far wider physical area – but how secure are the security devices themselves? In a two-part series, Simon Gawne, director of integrated solutions and innovation at Tyco, investigates the need for security teams to consider not only the man outside the gate, but also the ghost in the machine, as hackers attempt to exploit vulnerable system backdoors. (more…)
August 31, 2016
Posted by: George Malim
From delivery vehicles to ATMs, air conditioning systems to CCTV cameras, the scope for commercial IoT appears to be as big, if not bigger than, the comparable consumer opportunity, writes Klaus Gheri, the vice president and general manager for network security at Barracuda Networks. However, for the business world, the IoT faces a major barrier to adoption: in their current state, the tools that help businesses deploy and secure IoT devices are simply not fit for purpose. (more…)
August 30, 2016
Posted by: George Malim
The Internet of Things (IoT) industry must establish a common set of security standards of which to adhere, writes Oscar Arean, the technical operations manager at disaster recovery provider Databarracks. (more…)
August 15, 2016
Posted by: George Malim
In the second part of his blog on IoT security, Rob Greer, the chief marketing officer and senior vice president of products at ForeScout Technologies explains how organisations can stay ahead of the IoT invasion. (more…)
January 12, 2016
Posted by: George Malim
We live on a hyper-connected planet, writes Rob Greer the chief marketing officer and senior vice president of products at ForeScout Technologies. Just over 40% of the world is online, with an average of five connected devices per US household. And now, with the Internet of Things (IoT) in full swing among individuals and organisations, those numbers are about to explode. There will be 30 billion connected things by 2020, compared to a relatively paltry 13 billion connected devices in 2015. (more…)
January 11, 2016
Posted by: George Malim
While the IoT can quite rightly be criticised for the amount of hype it has generated in the last two or three years, look a little more closely and you will find a range of practical applications, writes James Wickes, the co-founder of Cloudview. (more…)
January 8, 2016
Posted by: George Malim