Y'all know I love a good NIST report. The National Institute of Standards and Technology does a good job of taking the established wisdom and distilling it into a set of best practices or rules for an industry. This isn't the place to go for … [Read more...]
Congress tries again with IoT security
Last week, four Senators and two members of the House introduced a new bill aimed at protecting connected devices that are used by the U.S. government. It is called the Internet of Things (IoT) Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2019 and roughly the … [Read more...]
IoT news of the week for March 15, 2019
Congress is back on IoT security bills: Maybe we won't get any meaningful data privacy legislation, it appears that the US House and the US Senate have picked up a device security bill again. This particular bill gives the National Institute of … [Read more...]
IoT news of the week for Feb. 8, 2018
Utilities want their own IIoT network: Several utility companies have banded together to create the Utility Broadband Alliance (UBBA) to get some kind of dedicated industrial IoT network designed for grid operations. This proposed network would be … [Read more...]
IoT news of the week for Nov. 9, 2018
Wemo adds HomeKit support to its dimmer switch: Rejoice, Apple fans! Those of you with the Wemo dimmer switch can now update the switch to add support for HomeKit. This is Wemo's first software-based implementation of HomeKit, which is a pretty big … [Read more...]