3 Things to Know Before Building and Deploying IoT Devices, Cloud-Native Environments and How IoT Can Make Your Home and City Smarter

Shannon Lee
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3 min readAug 3, 2019

The best articles from this week, curated by the IoT For All Team.

This Week’s Best Reads

3 Things to Know Before Building and Deploying IoT Devices

IoT lives in a complex ecosystem, and IoT devices often cast some confusion. When building out a new IoT device, know these three fundamentals: (1) All commercial IoT devices must undergo rigorous certifications, (2) edge intelligence isn’t married to IoT devices and (3) IoT devices don’t need a (public) IP address to be exposed to security threats.

Cloud-Native Environments: A Challenge for Traditional Cybersecurity Practices

“The cloud” is just a marketing buzzword that hides tens of thousands of racks in data centers filled with virtualizable servers, computers and storage. In this context, security responsibilities remain very concrete but need to be approached and organized differently.

How IoT Can Make Your Home and City Smarter

IoT has the potential to reinvent not just our homes but also our cities. On a large scale, the opportunity to stream information from devices embedded in our cities and act upon it can enhance infrastructure, keep municipal services up-to-date, mitigate road traffic and increase public safety.

Five Things We’re Reading

1 — Ars Technica: California-based Armis disclosed 11 zero-day vulnerabilities that expose around 200 million devices carrying VxWorks OS.

2 — FastCompany: Georgia Tech researchers published a paper in the journal Physical Review E, revealed how hackers might weaponize connected cars.

3 — ZDNet: IDC reported that public cloud spending is increasingly being concentrated among the top five providers at 46.3% of all spending growth in 2018.

4 — VentureBeat: Microsoft surveyed over 3,000 IT team leaders and executives. Respondents said 30% of their project fail in the proof-of-concept stage.

5 — The Verge: Verizon connected four more cities — Atlanta, Detroit, Indianapolis and DC — to its 5G network, making the service now available in nine US cities.

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