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• 11 IoT security challenges and how to overcome them

  IoT, while influential and beneficial, introduces several security challenges, from device discovery and patching to access control and cyber attacks. Continue Reading

• Prepare your organization for these 3 IoT challenges

  IoT devices paired with 5G can bring a lot of benefits to organizations. But admins must address concerns surrounding management, health and security, and compatibility. Continue Reading

• 3 ways IoT developers can tackle a changing design landscape

  Supply chain interruptions, chip shortages and new networking protocols make IoT product design an ever-evolving process. Here's how developers can address these challenges. Continue Reading

• Top 5 IoT security threats and risks to prioritize

  Certain IoT security concerns are hard to forget, such as IoT botnets, but others might not come to mind as easily, including DNS threats and physical device attacks. Continue Reading

• Top 4 IoT data privacy issues developers must address

  Regulatory changes mean changes for IoT device creation. Design considerations around API permissions, AI data set bias and physical access can improve product security. Continue Reading

• Edge computing security risks and how to overcome them

  IT administrators must incorporate the right strategies and tools to anticipate, prevent and overcome common edge computing security risks and realize the value of edge technology.Continue Reading

• How removing latency can unlock even greater value from IoT

  Many applications of IoT require real-time information to give value to customers, whether it's for the safety of autonomous vehicles or cooking the perfect prime rib.Continue Reading

• Why it's time for a new collective purpose

  The future of work and home life is dependent on reliable connectivity anywhere in the world. Service providers and IoT device manufacturers must work together to make it happen.Continue Reading

• How IoT technology enhances smart water quality management solutions

  IoT makes it possible to monitor water quality remotely and automatically through sensors, which can be useful in healthcare facilities, water utilities and wastewater management.Continue Reading

• 4 IoT connectivity challenges and strategies to tackle them

  IoT connectivity challenges, such as scalability and compatibility, complicate deployments, so IT admins must plan for the infrastructure needed to support IoT initiatives.Continue Reading

• Reap the rewards of IT/OT convergence in manufacturing

  Organizations that plan carefully and slowly implement IT/OT convergence in manufacturing can experience advantages in productivity at minimal risk.Continue Reading

• Video is now cloud-ready

  The ability to migrate video surveillance workloads to the cloud and further depopulate the datacenter will give IT value-added resellers an advantage with CIOs who want to invest heavily in their ...Continue Reading

• Consider IoT TPM security to augment existing protection

  Organizations can upgrade their devices to include TPMs that serve as passive security on the host system, simplify device maintenance and enhance overall security.Continue Reading

• IoT integration challenges require strategy, vendor support

  Every organization that implements an IoT deployment must inevitably figure out how to address integration challenges through vendor support and internal expertise.Continue Reading

• Roll out IoT device certificates to boost network security

  Organizations don't just use digital certificates for websites and web apps anymore. IoT device certificates have become a significant part of any cybersecurity strategy.Continue Reading

• Overcome IoT application challenges with in-memory computing

  With the adoption of IoT continuing to explode, developers should explore the potential of in-memory computing platforms to create a cost-effective, massively scalable foundation for their ...Continue Reading

• Overcome common IoT edge computing architecture issues

  IoT and edge computing connect the previously unconnected world, which comes with its share of difficulties that development teams and architects must not underestimate.Continue Reading

• Why connected healthcare needs a product mindset

  Healthcare providers must approach IoT deployments and digital transformations as products that must continually adapt and improve, not projects they can forget about once implemented.Continue Reading

• Ensuring IoT and OT security requires collaboration

  Just as security within an organization is everyone’s responsibility, all parties involved in the IoT and OT asset lifecycle must take responsibility for security and resilience.Continue Reading

• IoT device authentication methods that increase security

  Most IoT devices don't come with ideal authentication capabilities. IT admins must understand the best methods to use for their deployment, such as digital certificates.Continue Reading

• Interoperability, AI comprise healthcare IoT platform essentials

  Healthcare organizations can save providers' time with IoT platforms that combine data types for easy use and derive greater insights through patient health monitoring.Continue Reading

• Flying IoT introduces new opportunities, security vulnerabilities

  IoT is now taking to the sky in the form of drones. While these devices offer insurmountable business opportunities, the inherent security vulnerabilities leave some businesses unsure.Continue Reading

• Integrating IoT technology for effective environmental monitoring

  IoT technology provides innovative ways to track and mitigate environmental challenges. Organizations can integrate smart concepts for safer surroundings and increased business growth.Continue Reading

• Defeating pandemic attack trends on IoT and consumer devices

  Training, threat intelligence and a comprehensive security strategy will ensure organization can fight threats that arise from the ever-increasing contingent of IoT devices.Continue Reading

• Using technology to get workers back on campus safely

  As employers begin to consider reopening offices, they can use precautionary measures such as predictive cleaning and contact tracing with the help of IoT devices to reduce the risk of a COVID-19 ...Continue Reading

• 6 best practices for IoT security during global uncertainty

  More people work outside of typical offices now, which means IoT security best practices must grow to accommodate them and focus on security hygiene and broader network analysis.Continue Reading

• Using IoT technology to help businesses thrive in a pandemic world

  IoT devices can help both organizations and employees more sustainably use electricity and water under new working conditions, including work from home and limited occupancy offices.Continue Reading

• 6 steps to prioritize IoT gateway security

  IoT gateways serve as essential components in building effective IoT deployments and greater security, but admins should secure them with regular software updates and audits.Continue Reading

• Why so many enterprise IoT projects fail

  Organizations must prioritize software expertise in upper level management and avoid these six inaccurate assumptions of IoT projects to set themselves on a path to success.Continue Reading

• IoT Security Foundation launches vulnerability platform

  With the convergence of home and work networks, IoT vulnerability platforms might push security awareness across consumer and enterprise IoT and assist manufacturers with regulations.Continue Reading

• Get greater protection with IoT security advances in authentication

  In this book excerpt, discover why and how authentication offers one of the most crucial security measures any engineer must plan in an IoT deployment.Continue Reading

• 4 strategies for scaling IoT to overcome technical challenges

  IoT adoption alone can overwhelm an organization, but IoT leaders must also plan ahead to scale IoT deployments and avoid operational and technical pitfalls.Continue Reading

• IoT-based predictive maintenance staves off machine failures

  Predictive maintenance uses sensors, gateways and management systems to predict when equipment failures will occur in manufacturing, oil and gas and food processing industries.Continue Reading

• How to deal with IoT device proliferation

  Malicious attackers have begun to strategically target IoT devices to gain access to corporate networks. Security teams must employ new tactics, such as deceptive techniques, to draw out attackers.Continue Reading

• 3 ways to balance biometric voter registration promise, concerns

  Biometric voter registration systems could play a role in the future of election security, if developers and governments can address concerns about security and hacking.Continue Reading

• Addressing the increase in IoT-based attacks driven by remote work

  Following work-from-home ordinances due to COVID-19, business leaders must accept that employees’ IoT devices present a much greater risk now that they are used outside the company’s security fence.Continue Reading

• IoT creates safer workplaces and promotes greater adoption

  Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, organizations have adopted technologies, including cameras and sensors, that can keep workers and customers safe during the pandemic and beyond.Continue Reading

• Track and trace in urban and suburban settings with IoT

  The problem of COVID-19 is pressing, but the use of track and trace efforts with the help IoT devices and data gives local governments options and a way to act quickly.Continue Reading

• Don't forget IoT physical security when planning protection

  Organizations must take steps to ensure the physical security of IoT devices, including preventing access to hardware components and ensuring only authenticated access.Continue Reading

• Tackle the growing number of IoT ransomware threats

  IoT devices give hackers more doorways into networks, and organizations must take steps -- such as backing up data -- to secure them before hackers come knocking with ransomware.Continue Reading

• Shadow IoT poses growing threat to network security

  Without policies and a visible inventory of incoming IoT technology, organizations put their network and data at risk from unauthorized access on inherently unsecure devices.Continue Reading

• Tips for enhancing the driving experience with IoT

  As the number of smart vehicles increases, engineers must perform the right type of testing with the right instrumentation to ensure the security and safety of connected vehicles isn't compromised.Continue Reading

• Healthcare IoT security risks and what to do about them

  Healthcare IT and security administrators must understand the evolving challenges of protecting healthcare IoT devices and data to keep patients safe.Continue Reading

• Endpoint protection requires a real-time solution

  As cyberattacks become significantly more sophisticated, organizations must invest in endpoint protection and response solutions to detect and prevent real-time cyberthreats.Continue Reading

• Overcoming IoT device vulnerability with edge computing

  Organizations can learn a lot about the security innovations happening at the edge and apply these best practices to their IoT device management to better secure their data centers or clouds.Continue Reading

• Tackle ICS IoT security challenges with 6 processes

  With more cyberattacks targeting industrial systems with IIoT, vendors, developers and manufacturers must incorporate ICS security processes before, during and after development.Continue Reading

• How to detect a botnet infecting IoT devices

  Detecting IoT botnets can be extremely difficult, but with this expert advice, organizations can take steps to detect and prevent attackers from hijacking IoT devices.Continue Reading

• COVID-19 accelerates adoption of AR, MR and IoT technologies

  Adoption of AR, MR and IoT technologies to weather the impact of the coronavirus crisis will drive continued growth of these technologies in several sectors, such as healthcare and education.Continue Reading

• Class suits may present the quickest way to a safer connected world

  IoT products remain insecure by design. Dalin Robinson suggests bringing class action lawsuits to vendors of insecure connected products, which forces vendors to take security design into account.Continue Reading

• What work from home means for IoT Security

  With remote work likely to remain in place for the foreseeable future, organizations must decide what an acceptable tolerance level is between keeping the business running and making security a ...Continue Reading

• 3 steps to keep IoT secure in 2020

  When thinking about modern IoT, there are a lot of nice to haves. Security is not one of them. Security must be treated as something to be built in, not added on later.Continue Reading

• Ensuring IoT security during a pandemic

  Maintaining secure networks and IoT usage may seem secondary but following proven protocols to stay digitally protected is one way to come out on top, especially during a pandemic.Continue Reading

• How to create a workflow for IoT software updates

  Instead of scrambling to create an IoT update workflow when the need becomes pressing, IT experts should create a plan specifically to update IoT devices using these best practices.Continue Reading

• IoT device management eases deployment and monitoring

  IT pros need a way to simplify the deployment and maintenance of the increasing number of IoT devices organizations use, and IoT device managers can do just that.Continue Reading

• IoT, AI and 83 problems

  IoT and AI can offer a solution to the 80/20 dilemma in software, but companies must be willing to understand the context of IoT data and instill processes to better utilize their time and effort.Continue Reading

• With everyone working from home, who’s minding the security?

  As remote work increases companies must instill new security measures. Adding automation, consolidated and unified management, and network segmentation will not only pay off now, but long into the ...Continue Reading

• The incoming problem with the hyper-connected home

  The average home now has well into the double digits of applications and devices. This creates an influx of not only connected devices, but their related mobile software applications.Continue Reading

• Ensuring patient privacy and care in connected hospitals

  With life or death decisions hinging on the performance and reliability of digital healthcare systems, smart hospitals simply have no choice but to get intelligent technology right in the ...Continue Reading

• In data privacy we trust: Solving the connected cities conundrum

  Data providers need to be smart about data governance when it comes to creating smart cities that ensure security and privacy are not sacrificed for the sake of convenience and opportunistic ...Continue Reading

• Why healthcare needs a new security strategy

  Rapid growth in smart devices in healthcare shines a spotlight on security concerns. Healthcare providers and manufacturers must work together to protect patient security before connected devices ...Continue Reading

• Securing the IoT and cloud connection

  Many IoT devices have processing capabilities but lack sufficient security, which makes them a preferred target for cybercriminals. As a result, users must protect their connections between IoT ...Continue Reading

• 6 common challenges to IoT OTA updates

  Keeping technology updated will become even more critical with IoT devices. Over-the-air updates can ease the process if administrators know how to address the obstacles.Continue Reading

• How long-range wireless power can change your office

  Devices such as mobile phones or laptops can only go so far as their battery life will take them. Ultimately, long-range wireless charging will be a game-changer for offices large and small.Continue Reading

• Navigating the uncharted territory of IoT standards

  Addressing the security of IoT devices early on in the development process enables organizations to better manage, control and integrate these devices into their infrastructures.Continue Reading

• ICIP IoT training: IoT strategies drive industry change

  An outcome-based IoT strategy will revolutionize the way organizations do business by focusing on the big picture rather than on the individual parts.Continue Reading

• Ring device hacks highlight need for stronger IoT security

  Hackers are always devising new methods of attack. Staying abreast of new attack vectors, ensuring compliance and building security into IoT devices will provide defense against future cyberattacks.Continue Reading

• Fire prevention for commercial buildings

  A fire detection device comprised of smart sensors can help firefighters detect heat, smoke, gas or flames associated with fires and deploy firefighting tactics and personnel more quickly.Continue Reading

• IoT medical devices face barriers before a bright future

  Medical organizations must break down the silos that keep their IoT devices from working together to effectively incorporate innovative technology that can improve patient care.Continue Reading

• How to ensure RPA delivers

  Businesses that choose the wrong brand of RPA can limit the scale and potential of automation. To realize RPA's benefits, such as greater accuracy and productivity, they must consider are few key ...Continue Reading

• How to deal with the lack of IoT standards

  With each IoT standards body creating its own architecture or framework, IT professionals have many options to sort through for any IoT deployment.Continue Reading

• Operational IoT must be seen to be secured

  When organizations use one network for both IoT and OT devices, they can only effectively secure their endpoints if they have a process to ensure endpoint visibility.Continue Reading

• DNS threats emerge as IoT sticking point

  Organizations can get wrapped up in the excitement of IoT technology and forget that older tech, including DNS, might not be up to supporting and securing new and old technology.Continue Reading

• It’s tough living on the edge

  Edge computing has advantages in latency, but dealing with failure resiliency and automation, where both distribution and scale are so great, can be especially challenging.Continue Reading

• Tackling the challenge of IoT software updates

  As IoT devices continue to grow in numbers, improving IoT software updates is a topic that the IoT industry will increasingly be talking about as its looks to improve functionality and security.Continue Reading

• 5 ways to facilitate the convergence of IT and OT in IoT

  Inherent differences between IT and OT teams can lead to conflict and a lack of cooperation. Learn how to align these two functions to ensure project success.Continue Reading

• 3 NB-IoT use cases bring advantages -- and challenges

  Narrowband IoT applications offer advantages for smart city, farm and factory data analytics, but organizations must still tackle connectivity and security issues.Continue Reading

• Battery-free smart home adoption? It’s possible

  As IoT devices continue to rise in popularity, consumers and manufacturers alike have begun to come across the battery life dilemma.Continue Reading

• Secure IoT devices and networks and bears, oh my!

  With IoT devices, cyberattacks are inevitable. But there are a few tactics that you can use to help mitigate attacks and better improve your IoT device security.Continue Reading

• Overcome data overload and prevent IIoT project failure

  Organizations can use IIoT data to their advantage, but they must consider incorporating data modeling and infrastructure into their IIoT project plants to prevent failure.Continue Reading

• IoT security regulations refocus data privacy best practices

  New and old IoT regulations create a maze of rules and best practices that organizations must navigate to become more transparent about their IoT security practices.Continue Reading

• 3 ways long-range wireless power will define the future of public restrooms

  Public services, such as restrooms, can save time and money with the implementation of IoT devices that use long-range wireless power to sustainably monitor facilities that need maintenance.Continue Reading

• Can trusted data exchanges help grow ethical AI?

  Organizations are developing AI technology rapidly, which makes it even more vital for IT pros to understand the ethics around AI and data security.Continue Reading

• 4 ways IoT cloud platforms improve application development

  The cloud is a critical IoT resource for organizations with distributed, unpredictable IoT traffic. How can organizations get the most from their cloud provider tools?Continue Reading

• The breach with the longest shelf-life: Healthcare

  IoT in healthcare provides great benefits for patients and healthcare providers, but providers must also secure IoMT devices and protect patient health data.Continue Reading

• Using technology to track holiday shipments

  As the holiday season approaches, manufacturers can use IoT devices and smart sensors to ensure quick and efficient product delivery to consumers and maintain continuous revenue streams.Continue Reading

• Developing a defense-in-depth security practice for IoT

  IoT security continues to be a popular topic, especially as the number of cyberthreats increase. A defense in depth security plan can help users and businesses alike to better secure their ...Continue Reading

• 5 steps for securing IoT deployments

  Focusing the right people, processes and technology on IoT cybersecurity is a win-win; it can improve security operations and the success of IoT initiatives.Continue Reading

• The unique requirements for the edge data layer

  Where data is stored affects both distribution and connectivity. By keeping data in the right type of storage with dedicated private lines, organizations can improve both performance and security.Continue Reading

• How IoT is transforming energy efficiency tactics

  Energy efficiency is a critical component to a retailer's everyday operations, and IoT sensors and data can help them save on energy consumption and costs.Continue Reading

• How to protect data privacy in connected cars

  Modern cars contain advanced technologies and personal data susceptible to security breaches. To protect customer data, car manufacturers must implement built-in security measures beforehand.Continue Reading

• Medical IoT devices lead to patient safety concerns

  Medical device cybersecurity is a must, but it requires cooperation from several departments. A combination of training, sensible policies, enforcement and automation can help keep patients safe ...Continue Reading

• How to prepare for the age of edge storage

  As data floods in from IoT devices and applications move to the cloud, organizations should consider separating storage from compute with the NVMe/TCP standard.Continue Reading

• IoT data privacy forces organizations to rethink data ownership

  Now more than ever, providers of IoT devices and experiences play an integral role in addressing IoT data privacy issues and influencing outcomes, market forces and societal health.Continue Reading

• Secure the mix of legacy and modern solutions in IIoT

  Combining new and legacy technology challenges the security of IIoT, and the inherent insecurity of current IoT systems calls for network traffic analytics to protect from cyberattacks.Continue Reading

• A guide for smart supply chain visibility

  Organizations can make better purchasing decisions and prepare for potential crises by improving the line of sight for supply chains with IoT telematics and infrastructure.Continue Reading

• Bringing a forever battery to life in IoT

  A growing number of IoT devices continue to rely on disposable batteries. With the help of Bluetooth 5.0 and a combination of circuit-level and system-level innovations, battery-free IoT devices ...Continue Reading

• The challenge of securing building management systems

  As BMS systems are being implemented into smart buildings, security can become compromised. SCADAfence's Elad Ben-Meir explores BMS systems and how to best secure them against possible cyberattacks.Continue Reading

• Invest in hardware root of trust to ensure IoT security

  The number of cyberattacks on IoT devices has seen an alarming surge as the number of connected devices increase, and Lattice Semiconductor's Juju Joyce discusses ways to avoid these attacks.Continue Reading

• Dead zones in cellular service take on renewed importance in IoT

  Dead zones can become a potential roadblock for new product offerings and revenue streams in IoT. ADRF's Greg Najjar explores this connectivity risk and why it's affecting many utility companies.Continue Reading

• The unseen killer of IoT devices

  IT pros have many obstacles to overcome in IoT deployments, but the biggest one that gets overlooked is insufficient bandwidth in measurement instruments. Keysight Technologies' Cheryl Ajluni ...Continue Reading