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Primer: What DDoS attacks could mean for IoT

The Parallax

It’s easy for nontechnical people to have massive impact…Just a few thousand people using scripts can bring an enterprise to its knees.”. In 2016, he says, security company Sucuri found that hackers used a DDoS attack to take down the site of a small jewelry store after hacking its Internet-connected security cameras.

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SecuriThings snares $14M Series A to keep edge devices under control

TechCrunch

Managing IoT devices in a large organization can be a messy proposition, especially when many of them aren’t even managed directly by IT and often involve integrating with a number of third-party systems. Armis nabs $65M Series C as IoT security biz grows in leaps and bounds.

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Embrace grabs a new funding round amid unveiling of new mobile data intelligence software

TechCrunch

Founded in 2016, the Culver City-based observability and data company launched its Data Intelligence product following the raise of $45 million in Series B funding led by New Enterprise Associates. Embrace has a SaaS pricing model with both free and pro/enterprise tiers. That’s where Embrace comes in.

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2016 Internet of Things (IoT) Predictions

CTOvision

Gartner predicts that number of IoT devices in use worldwide will grow from an estimated 5 billion in 2015 to some 25 billion connected devices by 2020. The best business strategies will perfectly balance the ever-growing IoT market opportunities versus a rapidly evolving threat environment. Hacks will increase in scope and complexity.

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Clean energy firm Husk signs UN energy compact as it begins solar mini-grid expansion in Nigeria, rest of Africa

TechCrunch

The startup, currently with operations in Nigeria, Tanzania and India (Uttar Pradesh and Bihar), has set an ambitious goal of installing at least 5,000 mini-grids by 2030 and in the process make 1 million connections – half of which will be micro, small and medium-sized enterprises. Image Credits: Husk Power Systems.

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December Tech Trends Report and 2016 Enterprise Tech Projections

CTOvision

The Trends To Track in 2016. Here is more on what we expect each will bring us in 2016: Cloud Computing : The efficiencies of this new architecture are driving compute costs down. For 2016, expect more IT departments to be buying these small form factor cloud in a box data centers. For more see: [link] TheCyberThreat.

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The Future Of The Telco Industry And Impact Of 5G & IoT – Part 1

Cloudera

Technology like IoT, edge computing and 5G are changing the face of CSPs. The current scale and pace of change in the Telecommunications sector is being driven by the rapid evolution of new technologies like the Internet of Things (IoT), 5G, advanced data analytics and edge computing. Source: IDTechEx.

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