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Santa Clara, Calif-based Ordr has announced additional funding to the Series B funding round announced in December 2019. Ordr was founded in 2015 by Pandian Gnanaprakasam and Sheausong Yang to provide security for the rapidly expanding IoT ecosphere.
Security firm Kaspersky has released a report with startling statistics about IoT security, including the fact that nearly a third of companies with IoT systems faced attacks targeting internet-connected devices in 2019. Many IoT devices will have security certificates that verify their level of security and the best way to protect them.
Seemingly everywhere you turn these days there is some announcement about 5G and the benefits it will bring, like greater speeds, increased efficiencies, and support for up to one million device connections on a private 5G network. Using IoT devices without a private 5G network or adequate technical knowledge could put organizations' and their employees' privacy at risk.
They include everything from baby monitors to Wi-Fi chips. One such device is a connected vacuum cleaner, the Trifo Ironpie M6. According to researchers with Checkmarx, the vacuum has several high-severity flaws that open the device to remote attacks.
With this latest release, the industry's most advanced solution for OT network visibility and real-time cybersecurity now includes new groundbreaking anomaly detection technology that delivers unmatched accuracy for enterprise IoT networks. The result is adaptable/flexible threat detection and response that improves security and reliability across mixed IT, OT and IoT network environments.
Organizations around the world are observing this Shadow IoT phenomenon, where employees are bringing unauthorized devices into the enterprise. Key findings Unauthorized IoT devices on the rise: The top unauthorized IoT devices include digital home assistants, TV set-top boxes, IP cameras, smart home devices, smart TVs, smart watches, and even automotive multimedia systems.
Purdue University innovators have unveiled technology that is 100 times more resilient to electromagnetic and power attacks, to stop side-channel attacks against IoT devices. Recent attacks have shown that such side-channel attacks can happen in just a few minutes from a short distance away.
CyberMDX, a leading provider of medical cyber security solution, delivering asset visibility and threat prevention for medical devices and clinical assets, announced that it has completed integration certification for the Microsoft Azure Security Center for IoT. Integrating CyberMDX visibility and detection capabilities with Microsoft Azure Security Center for IoT, healthcare organizations are equipped with cross-cloud and devices visibility, classification and incident response capabilities. Azure Security Center for IoT provides adaptive threat prevention, and intelligent threat detection and response across workloads running on on-premises, on edge, in Azure.
The introduction of IoT devices into the enterprise can improve the work experience and productivity of staff, but often comes with increased security risk. IoT devices notoriously bring additional vulnerabilities to the new edge without being adequately protected by the organization's network security.
Cynerio announced the addition of the virtual segmentation capability to their platform. The Cynerio platform's new virtual segmentation capability automatically delivers safe and effective policies in a matter of weeks by customizing segmentation policy for every device type, limiting the attack surface, and ensuring clinical services remain intact.