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Winning On Tomorrow’s Interconnected Battlefields

With the U.S. national security plan highlighting the need for both information dominance and protection, the Department of Defense is considering plans like modernizing military networks to ensure more effective…

How Network Telemetry Is Becoming the New Normal

The work being done on federal, state, and local levels to ensure the health of society during and post-COVID-19 will be driven by the Internet of Things (IoT). From contact…

IoT and Privacy: The Connected Toilet Strikes Again

There’s a new loo. If you’re a gadget-head, you’ve probably seen more than a few of the bizarre inventions debuted at CES over the years, including the new smart toilets.…

Why Scalable Networks Need Scalable Monitoring

According to the SolarWinds IT Trends Report 2019: Skills for Public Sector Tech Pros of Tomorrow, 75% of all public sector tech pros surveyed expressed concerns about whether they have…

Medical Device Hacking Worldwide Part 1

The process of getting approval for a new medicine is long and burdensome and for many patients. Most don’t have the luxury of time on their hands. They want a…

Securing Data-Centric vs. Action-Centric IoT

In 2008, the number of connected devices surpassed the number of humans on Earth, and now, in 2020, analysts predict the exponential growth of the Internet of Things will cross…

Is IPv6 Too Big for an IoT Tiny Home?

Read about wireless IoT protocols, and one feature will stick out above the rest. 6LoWPAN is a typical client addressing protocol. But what is it? The “6” gives us an…

Zombie Apocalypse in the Smart City—And How to Stay Alive

Researchers from different universities around the world have been studying fictional zombie outbreaks as an approach to investigating how different diseases could potentially spread. The investigations have resulted in different…

2020—The Rise of the Machines?

I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about the Internet of Things recently. Well, I’ve spent the last seven years thinking about IoT. Seven years ago, I bought my first…

New Laws Alone Won’t Be Enough to Secure IoT Devices

Security concerns over the Internet of Things (IoT) are growing, and federal and state lawmakers are taking action. First, the U.S. Senate introduced the Internet of Things Cybersecurity Improvement Act…