AT&T Enterprise IoT Cloud offering with Nokia announced. Device Management tools and Race to Scale enhanced together with Security. COMMENT below with important botnet security story update involving dotGOV actions.
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nokia.com
AT&T and Nokia to deliver rapid global IoT deployments
Press Release
Working together to help businesses spur IoT innovation on a global scale 7 June, 2018
Dallas, Texas - AT&T and Nokia are teaming up to provide virtually seamless Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity around the world. The companies are using Nokia's Worldwide IoT Network Grid (WING) to offer AT&T's enterprise customers the benefits of Nokia's global IoT ecosystem. These include core network, dedicated IoT operations, billing, security, data analytics, and more.
AT&T and Nokia will develop, test and launch the next generation of IoT services. They'll cover a wide range of industries including transportation, health, manufacturing, retail, agriculture, utilities, consumer electronics and smart cities.
Commercial deployment starts later this year. WING's core network assets are expected to be available in more than 20 countries across Europe, Asia, North America, South America, and the Middle East by the first quarter of 2020. The collaboration will help set the stage for the evolution to global 5G... (more)
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COMMENT:
I've posted for years now on the need for Device Management Suites to manage dumb robots and the need for sku consolidation to allow easier AI programming and control for security reasons.
The need for security is so evident it is a screaming desperate shriek - like the image from Edvard Munch 'The Scream' en.wikipedia.org
Security news reinforces the battle is hot and furious.
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securitynow.com
VPNFilter Malware Targets More Routers Than Originally Thought Scott Ferguson, Managing Editor, Light Reading, 6/7/2018
The VPNFilter botnet malware, which security researchers discovered last month, targeted many more routers than originally thought, according to new analysis. In a June 6 blog, researchers at Cisco Talos added several names to the list of home and small-business routers the malware targeted before being shut down by the FBI at the end of May. That list now includes devices from Asus, D-Link, Huawei, Ubiquiti, UPVEL and ZTE. Originally, researchers and law enforcement found VPNFilter targeted different routers and other devices from Linksys, MikroTik, Netgear and TP-Link. Overall, about 500,000 devices in dozens of countries were suspected of being infected; that number is now likely to go much higher. (See FBI Knocks Out VPNFilter Malware That Infected 500K Routers.) A full list of all the targeted routers and serial numbers for these devices can be found at the end of Talos' technical analysis of the VPNFilter malware.
First discovered by the Secret Service of Ukraine, ...(more) |
