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The SeamlessConnect solution ensures IoT devices can continuously send and receive data from the cloud, and works seamlessly with Thirdwayv's SecureConnectivity solution for connecting and protecting wireless, safety-critical devices and its AppAuth solution for ensuring IoT system elements can be controlled securely through a smartphone app. "Solutions that depend exclusively on a handheld device or smartphone to deliver this cloud connectivity cannot always achieve the high level of continuous data availability and device control required for mission-critical applications. SeamlessConnect solves the problem and joins our SecureConnectivity and AppAuth solutions to provide a third critical layer in our end-to-end IoT system deployment offering."
Worldwide IoT spending has been significantly impacted by the economic effects of the pandemic in 2020, although a back to double-digit growth rebound is expected both in the mid and long-term, according to IDC. IoT spending is growing 8.2% year over year to $742 billion in 2020 down from 14.9% growth forecast in the November 2019. Global IoT spending is expected to return to double-digit growth rates in 2021 and achieve a compound annual growth rate of 11.3% over the 2020-2024 forecast period.
Swittons, a P360 company, announced that its complete lineup of customizable IoT powered devices now includes integration with Microsoft Teams. "By integrating with Microsoft Teams, our complete lineup of Swittons devices are now able to facilitate remote communication that includes voice, video and online collaboration at the push of a button," stated Swittons CEO and Founder Anupam Nandwana.
Palo Alto Networks on Wednesday unveiled a new firewall powered by machine learning, a firewall for Kubernetes, and an IoT security solution. Palo Alto Networks has announced a new next-generation firewall that uses machine learning to help organizations detect and block threats.
19 vulnerabilities - some of them allowing remote code execution - have been discovered in a TCP/IP stack/library used in hundreds of millions of IoT and OT devices deployed by organizations in a wide variety of industries and sectors. "The library could be used as-is, configured for a wide range of uses, or incorporated into a larger library. The user could buy the library in source code format and edit it extensively. It can be incorporated into the code and implanted into a wide range of device types," the researchers explained.
Millions of IoT devices worldwide could be vulnerable to remote attacks due to serious security flaws affecting the Treck TCP/IP stack, Israel-based cybersecurity company JSOF warned on Tuesday. "Ripple20 vulnerabilities are unique both in their widespread effect and impact due to supply chain effect and being vulnerabilities allowing attackers to bypass NAT and firewalls and take control of devices undetected, with no user interaction required," JSOF said in a report describing Ripple20.
There's an acute need for IoT risk management improvement, as most organizations do not know what tracking and safeguards their third parties have in place, according to the Shared Assessments Program and the Ponemon Institute. "This is especially true when the use of IoT devices is extended to third parties, fourth parties, or even more concerning, when it's unknown where the use of IoT devices are being extended, or those extensions are unmanaged," observes Rocco Grillo, Managing Director, Global Cyber Risk Services, Alvarez & Marsal.
Laird Connectivity has announced the upcoming Sterling-LWB5+ Wi-Fi 5 and Bluetooth 5.1 module. Laird Connectivity's new Sterling-LWB5+ was intentionally designed for industrial IoT applications where performance, size, cost, and ruggedness are required to deliver reliable wireless connectivity.
Only 37% of "High performer" organizations monitor the risk of IoT devices used by third parties, and current IoT risk-management programs can't keep pace, study said. The report, A New Roadmap for Third Party IoT Risk Management, offered up a chart chronicling the differences between 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020 in IoT and TPRM, and this year definitely shows an increase.
In 1965, Gordon Moore published a short informal paper, Cramming more components onto integrated circuits. Based on not much more but these few data points and his knowledge of silicon chip development - he was head of R&D at Fairchild Semiconductors, the company that was to seed Silicon Valley - he said that for the next decade, component counts by area could double every year.