Lucian Niemeyer, CEO, Building Cyber Security
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Lucian Niemeyer, CEO, Building Cyber Security

The Honorable Lucian Niemeyer was appointed on March 1, 2021 the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Building Cyber Security, a non-profit organization advancing physical security/safety in a smarter world. Prior to this appointment, Lucian served in the White House as the Deputy Program Associate. Director, National Security Programs, in the Office of […]

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Cybersecurity for Shared Cloud Environments
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Cybersecurity for Shared Cloud Environments

In its recent Cloud Workload Protection Platform (CWPP) research note, Gartner identified memory exploit protection as an essential component of any organization’s CWP strategy (Gartner, Cloud Workload Protection Platforms, 2020):  “Exploit Prevention/Memory Protection–application control solutions are fallible and must be combined with exploit prevention and memory protection capabilities…”—Gartner CWPP 2020 Cybersecurity Considerations for the Cloud Cloud deployments […]

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Security Risks Are Slowing IT-OT Convergence
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Security Risks Are Slowing IT-OT Convergence

Fortinet has worked with Forrester Consulting for a third time to check in on security trends affecting those who manage and maintain critical infrastructure—including the industrial control systems (ICS) and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems that manage everything from factories to refineries to telecommunications infrastructure. Based on a global survey, the report identifies […]

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Protecting Traditional Stand Alone OT Systems As They Are Introduced To The IIoT
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Protecting Traditional Stand Alone OT Systems As They Are Introduced To The IIoT

Re-Emagineering the CyberSecurity driven convergence of OT to IIOT The exploitation and sabotage of resources has been a concern to mission critical operations since the dawn of the industrial age. With the advancement of Information Technology (IT), opportunities to compromise, corrupt and disable networks and systems have exponentially grown, creating new development of malicious mechanisms. […]

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Joe Nichols, Co-Founder & President
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Joe Nichols, Co-Founder & President

Prior to forming Itus Digital, Joe was the COO, VP Product Strategy at GE Digital, where he oversaw strategic growth planning, managed the software portfolio strategy, and ran key functions including Product Marketing, Business Unit Digital Solution Management, and Business Operations. Prior to GE Digital, Joe spent 21 years at Meridium focused on leading the product strategy and go-to market initiatives for 4 generations of Asset Performance Management solutions adopted by world-class industrial organizations. Joe received his Bachelors Degree in Management of Information Systems from Radford University.

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[White Paper] Ten Principles for Building Safe Embedded Software Systems
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[White Paper] Ten Principles for Building Safe Embedded Software Systems

Obtaining safety certifications and pre-market approvals for safety-related systems is arduous, costly, and prone to failure. And yet, such certifications and approvals are integral to the sale and market acceptance of software for a wide range of products. For example, software for a medical device must obtain FDA Class III pre-market approval (IEC 62304), a […]

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Cybersecurity Tactics to Prevent Ransomware
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Cybersecurity Tactics to Prevent Ransomware

Ransomware is a type of malware that prevents or limits users from accessing their system, either by locking the system’s screen or by locking the users’ files unless a ransom is paid. More modern ransomware families, collectively categorized as crypto-ransomware, encrypt certain file types on infected systems and forces users to pay the ransom through certain […]

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Accelerating & Optimizing Business Outcomes with Industrial IoT & AI
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Accelerating & Optimizing Business Outcomes with Industrial IoT & AI

Industrial customers need actionable insights to improve safety, streamline operations, increase efficiencies, reduce costs, and improve profitability in running their industrial operations. They can get these insights, and deliver key outcomes, by deploying industrial IoT solutions that pull data from their assets, operations applications, and business systems, migrate the data to a structured data store […]

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How to Increase Profitability in Manufacturing using Machine Learning
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How to Increase Profitability in Manufacturing using Machine Learning

The Internet of Things (IoT) is creating a new dynamic in the industrial space, specifically manufacturing. Large manufacturing companies are moving to leverage IoT technologies and predictive analytics as a part of increasing profitability and staying competitive. In the U.S. alone, existing capital stock worth over $6.8 trillion dollars is being fitted with sensors to […]

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The Immune System Approach – Cyber AI for Industrial Control Systems
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The Immune System Approach – Cyber AI for Industrial Control Systems

The practice of cyber security has changed dramatically in the past few years, presenting a significant challenge to management teams across all industries and business domains. As IT security teams become accountable for securing Operational Technology (OT) and OT-specialist teams similarly inherit responsibility for traditional IT security, this technical convergence requires the synergy of both […]

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