How to Discover and Handle IoT Firmware Vulnerabilities, The Importance of Multistage Validation in IoT Solutions, and Embedded Programming for the Internet of Things
The best podcast episodes and articles from this week, curated by the IoT For All Team.
Our Latest Podcast Episode
(E027) How to Discover & Handle IoT Firmware Vulnerabilities
Former NSA analyst Terry Dunlap introduces us to the problem of IoT device firmware vulnerabilities and how to handle them. He also shares his compelling journey from a teen hacker to an operative tracking down terrorists — a path that led him to co-found ReFirm Labs. Listen Now.
This Week’s Best Reads
The Importance of Multistage Validation in IoT Solutions
End-to-end IoT solutions involve some combination of sensors, gateways, networking, cloud access, web services, and user interfaces. A lot can go wrong with the technology let alone with the people managing it. Delivering solid IoT products in such a multilayered environment requires multistage validation testing.
IoT and Blockchain Meet Logistics and Transportation
Blockchain, IoT and mobile technologies can be integrated into a single powerful solution for real-time logistics tracking. If the inherent security and operational issues were to be resolved, their combined force could solve issues with transparency, record verification and tracking that continue to haunt the logistics sector in the digital era.
Embedded Programming for the Internet of Things
Embedded programming is an essential part of how IoT works. It’s how you make the myriad small devices that make up the “ground layer” of an IoT system send messages to you over a network and sometimes perform operations at the network’s edge. While doing embedded programming would require years of experience in the many hardware and software fields that make up embedded programming, having a general understanding of how IoT devices “think” is important.
Five Things We’re Reading
1—RCR Wireless: Federated’s coastal Environmental Sensing Capability (ESC) network is apparently ready to support CBRS roll-outs nationwide, following years of work.
2—Enterprise IoT Insights: According to research by Berg Insight, China accounted for 63 percent of the world’s cellular IoT connections at the end of 2018.
3—MIT Tech Review: The first big test for a platform that lets AI algorithms learn from private patient data is underway at Stanford Medical School.
4—MIT Tech Review: Amazon may roll out the new “CartonWrap 1000” conveyor-based packager to dozens of its warehouses, replacing ~24 workers each.
5—Forbes: The combined force of three products — Azure IoT Central, Azure Sphere and Azure IoT Plug and Play — suggest Microsoft is leading IoT and edge computing.
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