This news was first published on Dec. 23 in my weekly Stacey on IoT newsletter. Hopefully you're reading this newsletter on your last day at the office or while curled up at home with a warm and festive beverage. Instead of taxing your brain with … [Read more...]
We’re getting a consumer IoT security label next year!
The White House is moving forward with an IoT security and privacy label, with plans to have a formal label by spring of 2023. To kickstart the effort, it invited officials from government, industry, academia, and consumer organizations to discuss … [Read more...]
IoT news of the week for August 12, 2022
Arlo is making this subscription thing work: Last fall I wrote about Arlo's financialsand wondered if the connected camera company could make it as a stand-alone business by forcing customers to pay for monthly subscriptions. It seems it's doing well … [Read more...]
3 ways to fortify your smart home network setup
It's 2022 and you have a smart home. Given all of the stories about IoT devices getting hacked or hijacked with malware, are your router and home network prepared to protect your home? If you have an older router or don't use advanced features of a … [Read more...]
Industrial software is a prominent target. What should we do?
In the run-up to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, we were starting to hear a lot more about vulnerabilities in our industrial controls systems along with the need to secure our infrastructure from cyberattacks. Immediately after the war began, the … [Read more...]