IoT Agenda

January 2018

Industrial Internet of Things (IoT)

Shielding valuable IIoT data with VPNs
Guest Contributor Julian Weinberger - NCP engineering 31 Jan 2018

NCP engineering's Julian Weinberger explores the benefits of IIoT and smart factories, as well as the security risks which can be mitigated by a centrally managed VPN.

How IoT can provide greater value to the agriculture industry
Guest Contributor Karina Popova - LINK Mobility GmbH 17 Jan 2018

Karina Popova explains the benefits IoT can provide to farmers, as well as the challenges of adopting connected technologies in the agriculture industry.

IoT technology trends to watch in 2018
Guest Contributor Mitch Maiman - Intelligent Product Solutions (IPS) 04 Jan 2018

IPS' Mitch Maiman discusses IoT technology trends he expects in 2018, from improved security through blockchain to outdoor IoT growth to more wearables.

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2019 data breach disclosures: 10 more of the biggest

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Data security considerations for the modern-day enterprise

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Network device discovery best practices -- other than ping sweeps

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How to monitor network traffic in 7 steps

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Organizations try to predict the effect of 5G infrastructure

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Top infrastructure and operations technology myths of 2019

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Where InfluxDB time series database is going

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MariaDB X4 brings smart transactions to open source database

Open source database vendor MariaDB updates its flagship platform with new features to enable the convergence of transactional ...

How data lineage tools boost data governance policies

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