10.11.2016 14:52

Max Maxfield of Embedded.com interviews Alan Grau, President of Icon Labs, re how to prevent  IoT based Internet outages and cyber attacks. How to create the Internet of Secure Things. Security must be present end-to-end throughout the Internet and must cover both hardware and software. One problem is that, although a lot of effort is going into securing the core of the infrastructure, more and more functionality is being pushed out to "the edge" of the Internet in the form of the IoT devices themselves

Everything we've discussed thus far is encompassed by Icon Labs' Floodgate Security Framework, which provides a full suite of device protection, secure credentialing services, and integration with IoT cloud services. In addition to secure credentialing, the Icon Labs Floodgate Security Framework includes secure boot, secure software updates, firewall, intrusion detection, TLS, and a management agent.

read the entire article here - http://www.embedded.com/electronics-blogs/max-unleashed-and-unfettered/4442998/How-to-prevent-IoT-based-Internet-outages---2-Floodgate

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