Mastering IoT compliance in a GDPR world
Believe it or not, the one-year anniversary of the date the General Data Protection Regulation went into effect is almost upon us. The May 25, 2018 date will live in infamy for many organizations --...
Top 5 proactive solutions to IoT security challenges
A couple of years ago, an employee was fired from a position with a large food retailer in the United States. This event might have gone unnoticed had it not been for the fact that this disgruntled employee decided to get even. He knew the password to the organization's wireless network and...
The accelerated adoption of IoT will depend on the networks it runs on
There are many predictions on the expected growth of IoT, but what is clear is that there are already billions of devices connected worldwide and that number is expected to increase significantly in 2019. Devices are becoming smarter and easier to manage, accounting for an associated rapid increase...
Why manufacturers make insecure IoT devices and how you can protect them
Forty-eight percent of U.S. companies with IoT devices on their network have been breached, according to a recent study. All industries, including...
Virtualization and IoT made for one another, but performance monitoring still essential
In many ways, the internet of things offers the perfect use case for virtualization -- an elastic and highly adaptable environment and framework capable of adjusting to the dramatic lulls and spikes that characterize the data streams between machines. In much the same way, IoT, with what is shaping...
The future of IoT is unwritten
The internet of things continues to gain steam, both in production and in the popular imagination. The term has started to gather the same amount of industry buzz that accompanied cloud, perhaps more given...
IT’s critical role in industrial IoT
While the internet of things receives a great deal of attention these days, its vision may not become a reality for some time. My refrigerator is not connected to the internet, and I suspect that your...
IT pros must guide the IoT transformation
The internet of things is fast becoming one of the defining technological advances of our time. As the IoT transformation takes hold and the technology improves and expands, IT professionals have a...