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Soracom launched Soracom Arc, a service that allows anyone developing IoT solutions to leverage Soracom's IoT platform using any internet connection, including cellular, Wi-Fi, Ethernet, and satellite. Arc provides anyone developing IoT solutions secure access to the Soracom suite of 17 network and application services, including cloud integration, private networking, data optimization, secure remote access, and on-demand packet capture.
Other IoT PM programs are likely to follow because running an IoT project is different than running a standard IT project, and new skills must be learned. IoT project management has all of that, but it also demands an additional set of skills that IT project managers may not have.
NanoLock Security, an Israel-based company that specializes in IoT and operational technology device protection and management, this week announced raising $11 million in a Series B funding round. The funding, which brings the total raised by the firm to $21 million, came from OurCrowd, HIVE2040, Atlantica Group, and AWZ Ventures.
Zimperium has broadened its portfolio of mobile application protection solutions by acquiring whiteCryption. Zimperium will continue to support current whiteCryption customers and will integrate whiteCryption's solutions into Zimperium's Mobile Application Protection Suite, creating the world's most advanced mobile application protection solution.
CyberLink announced a partnership with ASUS, by integrating its FaceMe AI facial recognition engine into ASUS's Tinker Board 2 single-board computer. The fruit of a close collaboration between the ASUS IoT and CyberLink's FaceMe team, this joint solution provides ready-to-use, fully integrated facial-recognition capabilities for security, access control, visitor management and contactless experiences for retail, public services, hospitality and more.
TrustInSoft announced an Application Security Test specifically designed to mathematically guarantee bug-free code in embedded Internet of Things devices. This AST for IoT is based on TrustInSoft's Analyzer to provide the equivalent of static and dynamic code analysis of C/C++ source code using Formal Methods testing to guarantee the absence of undefined source code behaviors.
With four million subscribers today, Rakuten Mobile continues to advance and scale its network to support new demands driven by the growth of remote and mobile workers. With the implementation of Segment Routing over IPv6 and Cisco Routed Optical Networking, Rakuten Mobile plans to expand its capabilities to support enterprise customers with 5G and IoT services.
IoT is advancing the technical lives of millions, with the network of connected devices becoming more populated with each passing year. As a result, networking issues such as packet loss and jitter can dramatically impact how well IoT devices perform.
Vulnerabilities in firmware are a steadily growing percentage of the new issues added to the NIST National Vulnerability Database: five times as many attacks are happening as only four years ago. All that is why Microsoft is buying ReFirm Labs, home of the open-source Binwalk tool, whose Centrifuge firmware platform automates the process of running static analysis to discover what firmware vulnerabilities you're already exposed to.
Security and the promise of IoT. The promise of IoT is that sensors will become much less expensive to integrate and maintain, and therefore they will become far more ubiquitous. As IoT devices become more numerous, less capable, and less personalized, they create a Pandora's box of security concerns.