24 interesting Startups focused on Industry 4.0 to watch out at the Web Summit
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24 interesting Startups focused on Industry 4.0 to watch out at the Web Summit

ALPHA 2018 has sold out. ALPHA is a program run by Web Summit organizers and aims to spotlight the early stage startups engineering the future, connecting them to the world’s most influential companies at Web Summit. In this article, I’ve listed a few startups that caught my attention as they develop solutions in one of […]

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Jinesh Varia, CEO
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Jinesh Varia, CEO

Jinesh is currently the CEO of Industrility. Jinesh joined AWS when AWS launched its first service Amazon S3, back in 2006. After working for 10 years at AWS primarily leading product management and evangelism teams, his last role at AWS was to launch AWS Mobile Services, AWS IoT, AWS IoT Button and the Hardware Kit […]

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[Report] Exposed and Vulnerable Critical Infrastructure: Water and Energy Industries
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[Report] Exposed and Vulnerable Critical Infrastructure: Water and Energy Industries

TrendMicro published research at the end of October revealing how exposed human-machine interface (HMI) systems in thousands of critical water and energy organizations around the world could be exploited, causing significant real-world impacts, such as contaminating the water supply. A vast majority of the identified exposed systems are from smaller energy and water organizations that […]

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Critical Infrastructure and ICS Security Remain a Network Segmentation Problem
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Critical Infrastructure and ICS Security Remain a Network Segmentation Problem

Companies in every industry are developing and implementing connected industrial control applications as strategic digital business initiatives. However, the risks of security breaches and the subsequent impacts to consumer privacy and now personal safety are limiting the delivery of secure and resilient services, that are based on these connected applications.  Many company’s networks remain disconnected […]

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Daniel Elizalde, Vice President
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Daniel Elizalde, Vice President

Daniel Elizalde is the Vice President, Head of IoT for North America, of Ericsson. He is a seasoned product leader with over 20 years of experience managing complex B2B technology products. He is passionate about CleanTech and about leveraging the Internet of Things to solve some of the world’s biggest problems such as climate change. He […]

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Marin Ivezic, Partner PwC
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Marin Ivezic, Partner PwC

Marin Ivezic is a Partner at PwC. From his start in law enforcement more than 25 years ago, Marin came to focus on emerging threats of cyber-kinetic attacks – cyberattacks on Internet of Things (IoT) and Industrial Control Systems (ICS) that threaten people’s physical well-being, lives or the environment. Now, as a Partner in PwC, […]

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Eric Byres, CTO
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Eric Byres, CTO

Eric Byres is widely recognized as one of the world’s leading experts in the field of industrial control system (ICS) and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) cybersecurity. He is the inventor of the Tofino Security technology – the most widely deployed ICS-specific firewall in the world – licensed by industry giants Honeywell, Schneider Electric, and Caterpillar. Eric is also known for his leadership in international standards and research for industrial communications. Eric holds an extensive list of accomplishments, which includes founding the BCIT Critical Infrastructure Security Centre, providing guidance to government security agencies and major energy companies on protection for critical infrastructures, sitting as the chair of the ISA SP-99 Security Technologies Working Group, representing Canada for the IEC TC65/WG10 standards effort, and testifying to the US Congress on the Security of Industrial Control Systems in National Critical Infrastructures. He has received numerous awards from international organizations and was made an ISA Fellow in 2009. In 2013 he received ISA’s highest honor: Excellence in Leadership.

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Combine Crosser Edge Streaming Analytics and Azure IoT Edge
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Combine Crosser Edge Streaming Analytics and Azure IoT Edge

Based on customer requests we have implemented support for running Crosser Edge Streaming Analytics on Azure IoT Edge. Now you can innovate much faster and without the cost, risk and developer dependencies that come with writing code. Crosser Edge Streaming Analytics vs Azure IoT Edge solution The Crosser Edge Streaming Analytics solution allows non-software developers […]

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What makes a smart city smart?
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What makes a smart city smart?

Half the world lives in cities. By 2050 that figure will rise to 70 percent, boosted by the 2.2 billion more people who will live on the planet at mid-century. Cities generate 80 percent of the global gross domestic product and swallow 75 percent of natural resources, producing around 80 percent of global greenhouse gas […]

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Mike Quindazzi, Managing Director
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Mike Quindazzi, Managing Director

Mike Quindazzi is managing director and business development leader for the Southwest region and U.S. digital services for PwC. He has 28 years invested in gathering industry experience and crafting his management consulting abilities, leading teams and global companies on innovation, strategy and transformational initiatives. He is a keynote speaker on the global mega trends […]

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The CANOPY WING Vulnerability: Weaponizing the Weakness
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The CANOPY WING Vulnerability: Weaponizing the Weakness

Finding a vulnerability, developing an exploit, and then launching (or not launching) this exploit – is repeated many times every day. Now more than ever companies must be aware of two perspectives: what a system is intended to do, and what a system can do. The term Cyber-Newtonian Wormhole captures this duality. What is The […]

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Navigating the big pivot from IoT to AI-driven analytics
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Navigating the big pivot from IoT to AI-driven analytics

If you’ve worked in industry for any length of time, you’ve experienced wave after wave of digital technologies washing over the plant floor, from robots to tablets. The next decade will see a new technological wave breaking over the landscape, as artificial intelligence expands from a narrow set of tasks to far more sophisticated applications […]

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