The Smart City Ecosystem Framework – A Model for Planning Smart Cities
What is a smart city? The answer depends on who you ask. Solutions providers will tell you its smart parking, smart lighting systems or anything to do with technology. City…
5 Must-Attend industrial cybersecurity trade shows and events in the next 8 months
Industrial cybersecurity tradeshows and events take place all over the world, happening year round. We’ve compiled this list of what we feel are the 9 must-attend events for leading professionals…
9 questions you should ask before choosing a security vendor
There are many companies that provide security products and services for IT and OT environments. Needless to say, selecting the right vendor is key to the success of cybersecurity implementation…
Cybersecurity, the 2018 Major Industrial Challenge?
Industrial systems cybersecurity has become a real concern for many companies since the Industry 4.0 and hyper-connection of equipment grew out. Executives are often unprepared and unarmed to face this…
Best Cybersecurity Practices for the IT/OT Environment
In the world of IT/OT cybersecurity, there is no silver bullet. What you can do in your organization is to minimize the attack surfaces and threat vectors, and be vigilant…
Top 100 Global Industrial IoT Influencers in October
Discussion of the Industrial IoT (IIoT) or the Fourth Wave of the Internet is ubiquitous in the media, at industry conferences, and in manufacturing. According to a recent report released…
Four most hard to solve IIoT security issues
According to a forecast by Gartner, the number of IoT devices in use will reach 8.4 billion in 2017 and grow to a staggering 20.4 billion by 2020, and the…
[Whitepaper] Integrating Security Into the IoT Strategy in the New Converged Environment
Consumers want their work, home and mobile devices to communicate together to provide information that was previously not available from isolated systems. This desire is at the root of the…
A Historical Perspective on IT & OT Convergence
Hello IIoT World readers, and thanks for engaging with my column.슠Over the course of the next few months, I plan to write on a number of topics that are, individually,…
Can IIoT help address food and beverage manufacturing challenges?
The food & beverage industry is facing a number of key manufacturing operational challenges. Food & beverage manufacturing typically consists of complex processes, such as clean-in-place, traceability, capturing mislabeled products,…
How IIoT enables the factory of the future
Trillion-dollar projections on the expanding size of the market are urging companies to capitalize on the Industrial IoT (IIoT). For many, however, it remains unclear how factories should apply IIoT…
Smart Cities – From Vertical Farming to Vertiports
Cities are bursting at their seams and to manage the urban sprawl the strategy has been simple Go vertical!슠Tall buildings, elevated transportation, vertical farming, and now vertiports! All indications even…