Remove Energy and Utilities Remove Firmware Remove IoT Remove Technology
article thumbnail

Critical Success Factors to Widespread Deployment of IoT

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Critical Success Factors to Widespread Deployment of IoT. Digital technology and connected IoT devices have proliferated across industries and into our daily lives. Electric grid utilities are deploying smart meters to better correspond to consumers energy demands while lowering costs. Threat vectors on IoT.

IoT 96
article thumbnail

Preparing for IT/OT convergence: Best practices

CyberSecurity Insiders

Modern-day industrial and critical infrastructure organizations rely heavily on the operational technology (OT) environment to produce their goods and services. However, deploying the right technologies can harness all the benefits of a converged operation without increasing the security exposure profile of the organization.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

The Hacker Mind Podcast: Reverse Engineering Smart Meters

ForAllSecure

For example, in 2009, the Obama administration provided financial incentives to utilities in the United States. And again, smart meters were positioned squarely as making the environment more friendly by knowing how and when energy is being used by individual customers. Environmental effects caused by pollution. You know, in that job.

article thumbnail

The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Industrial Control Systems

ForAllSecure

The updates are done through firmware, firmware updates that we get from the vendor. It's individual pieces of it that fall apart and become a nightmare for that company or that utility or whatever. Technology Security. They're going to have some kind of graphical interface. You know, it isn't the blackout scenario.

Hacking 52