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Akamai on Tuesday announced that it has acquired Asavie, an Ireland-based company that provides mobility, IoT and cybersecurity solutions. Asavie has developed a platform that helps enterprises secure their mobile and IoT devices by placing assets inside private network slices.

IoT devices are now responsible for 32.72 percent of all infections observed in mobile and Wi-Fi networks - up from 16.17 percent in 2019. Researchers with Nokia's Threat Intelligence Lab said, in the Threat Intelligence Report 2020 released this week, that they believe that number of IoT infections will continue to grow "Dramatically" as connected devices continue to populate in homes and enterprise settings alike.

Quantum Integration has developed an Internet of Things platform that provides electronic enthusiasts with a complete hardware and software solution. Unlike projects built with Raspberry Pi or Arduino where users must have a programming background, with Quantum's platform no coding is required, making the creation of complex wireless applications faster and easier.

The Internet of Things Security Foundation, an effort aimed at improving the security of IoT, has launched an online platform designed to make the reporting of vulnerabilities in IoT devices easier. Launched alongside a new report into coordinated vulnerability disclosure, the Consumer Internet of Things Vulnerability Disclosure Platform is catered to both security researchers and manufacturers, seeking to ensure coordinated vulnerability disclosure management and reporting.

Semtech has announced two new enabling solutions for its LoRa Edge platform: LoRa Basics Modem-E, a software modem leveraging the LoRaWAN protocol for the LoRa Edge platform that runs inside the LoRa Edge transceiver, and the LoRa Edge Tracker Reference Design, a device-to-Cloud commercial grade reference solution for asset tracking applications. LoRa Basics Modem-E, which forms part of the LoRa Basics library of software tools and solution accelerators, is fully compliant with the LoRaWAN protocol and designed specifically to run on the LoRa Edge hardware platform.

Sequitur Labs announced it has officially joined the NVIDIA Partner Network with full support for the NVIDIA Jetson platform and protection of IP at the edge. Sequitur's EmSPARK Security Suite provides a robust security framework protecting embedded firmware, keys and security-critical assets through the entire device lifecycle.

As part of the partnership, ASUS is equipping its ASUS PE200U edge computer with Innodisk's next-generation flash storage, the out-of-band management-enabled Innodisk InnoAGE SSD. This solution allows customers to roll out more reliable and secure edge devices and IoT infrastructure than ever before. The Innodisk InnoAGE's unique out-of-band signaling technology combined with ASUS IoT Cloud Console address this challenge by allowing device operators to effortlessly manage their IoT devices remotely.

An online platform designed to help IoT vendors receive, assess, manage and mitigate vulnerability reports has been launched by the IoT Security Foundation. VulnerableThings.com aims to simplify the reporting and management of vulnerabilities whilst helping IoT vendors comply with new consumer IoT security standards and regulations.

Azure Defender for IoT - Microsoft's new security solution for discovering unmanaged IoT/OT assets and IoT/OT vulnerabilities - is now in public preview and can be put to the test free of charge. About Azure Defender for IoT. "As industrial and critical infrastructure organizations implement digital transformation, the number of networked IoT and Operational Technology devices has greatly proliferated. Many of these devices lack visibility by IT teams and are often unpatched and misconfigured, making them soft targets for adversaries looking to pivot deeper into corporate networks," Phil Neray, Director of Azure IoT Security Strategy at Microsoft, explained.

Microsoft announced today that Azure Defender for IoT, its agentless security solution for networked IoT and Operational Technology devices, has entered public preview. Azure Defender for IoT is an IoT/OT device threat protection solution that integrates with Microsoft's Azure Sentinel and third-party solutions to provide continuous threat monitoring and vulnerability management.