Servitization: Moving Beyond Bits and Bytes for Better IIoT Outcomes
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Servitization: Moving Beyond Bits and Bytes for Better IIoT Outcomes

IIoT has often been presented as a cost-saving mechanism or a means to make factories more productive. It is all that, of course. But the benefits of IoT don’t end there since they allow for the “servitization” of products. Products used to be complete once they left the factory floor. A car, a tractor or […]

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[IIC Whitepaper] Industrial Networking Enabling IIoT Communication
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[IIC Whitepaper] Industrial Networking Enabling IIoT Communication

The internet is now redefining industries like energy, manufacturing, transportation and healthcare. This new wave is the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT): an internet of things, machines, computers and people, enabling intelligent industrial operations using advanced data analytics for transformational business outcomes, according to Industrial Internet Consortium Industrial Internet Vocabulary, Version 1.0, May 7, 2015. The […]

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In the Digital Transformation era, speed and scale are of the top essence
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In the Digital Transformation era, speed and scale are of the top essence

What do the likes of Mercedes-Benz, GE, Ford, Humana, Philips, LockheedMartin and Indian Railways have in common? Irrespective of the diverse domains they are posited, each of them is in a phase of transformation…Digital Transformation. As the convergence of algorithms, cloud, things, and data drives tectonic shifts across industries, bellwether companies are forced to break […]

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IoT vs IIoT differences you must know
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IoT vs IIoT differences you must know

Business opportunities created by the Internet of Things (IoT) and the Industrial IoT (IIoT) are among the most debated topics, as these are considered important for a broad range of consumer and industrial applications. Leading market research firms already estimate that by 2020 there will be over 20 billion installed end-point devices worldwide, defined as […]

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Daniel Ehrenreich, Consultant & Trainer
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Daniel Ehrenreich, Consultant & Trainer

Formal Education:  B.Sc. Electronics: Graduated 1975  Business Administration: Study 2008  CISSP Course: Study 2014  ISO 27001- 2013 Certified Lead Auditor: Study 2017 Languages:  English, Hebrew, Hungarian Current Activity: Consultant & Trainer, SCCE-Secure Communications and Control Experts LinkedIn: Click here. Personal Qualifications:  Over 25 years of experience with Supervisory Control […]

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Investment in water infrastructure – a key role in smart cities development
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Investment in water infrastructure – a key role in smart cities development

Investment in water infrastructure With the United Nations reporting that 60% of the global population will call an urban area home by 2030, what are the most pressing infrastructural systems that cities will need to evaluate to meet the growing demand of this population? The key challenge for cities will be to manage the growth […]

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The Ideal IIoT Solution For OEMs
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The Ideal IIoT Solution For OEMs

The Internet of Things (IoT) represents an undeniable business opportunity to OEMs developing industrial equipment and machinery. Just about every industry is digitizing, and industrial equipment is no different. While customers purchase equipment to perform a specific task, connecting the asset can help them make more money and improve efficiencies for the asset’s limited lifecycle.  Forward-thinking […]

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Commercial Availability of Self-Service Cyberhardening Technology
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Commercial Availability of Self-Service Cyberhardening Technology

RunSafe Security, the pioneer of a patented cyberhardening process for vulnerable embedded systems, devices and industrial control systems (ICS), has announced the commercial availability of Alkemist, a proprietary self-service technology built to reduce vulnerabilities and deny malware the uniformity needed to execute. Previously known as Software Guardian, Alkemist uses remotely deployable software binary runtime application self-protection […]

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US Intelligence says Cyber Threat Warning Lights are Blinking Red
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US Intelligence says Cyber Threat Warning Lights are Blinking Red

Why Industrial Operations are not Immune Recently, US intelligence chief Dan Coats remarked in a talk at the Hudson Institute that ‘the warning lights are blinking red again’ on cyber attacks, as they were before the Sept 11 attacks in 2001. While Coats addressed most of his comments to the country’s digital infrastructure, he mentioned […]

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Michael Rothschild, Senior Director of Marketing
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Michael Rothschild, Senior Director of Marketing

Michael Rothschild is Senior Director of Marketing at Indegy and has more than 20 years of experience in IT security. Michael has worked in product management and marketing roles with Thales, RSA, SafeNet (now Gemalto), Dell, Juniper Networks and Radware. In his spare time, he volunteers as an Emergency Medical Technician.

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Smart Sensors Increasingly Important in the Industrial IoT Age
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Smart Sensors Increasingly Important in the Industrial IoT Age

While there is no single standard that could be applied to support a claim that a sensor is “smart,” Smart Sensors are typically characterized by on-board intelligence and the ability to communicate via a digital network.  With the emergence of both the Internet of Things (IoT) and the Industrial IoT (IIoT), new smart IoT sensors […]

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