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Capgemini and IBM Ecosystem strengthen partnership for Drone-as-a-Service

IBM Big Data Hub

Today, utilities and many other industries use drones extensively to conduct surveys, map assets and monitor business operations. They use drones for tasks as simple as aerial photography or as complex as sophisticated data collection and processing. The global commercial drone market is projected to grow from USD 8.15

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Critical Success Factors to Widespread Deployment of IoT

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Electric grid utilities are deploying smart meters to better correspond to consumers energy demands while lowering costs. The root cause of these attacks is that the devices are lacking the security mechanisms to defend themselves against malicious actions that lead to the control of hijacked devices. Tue, 02/16/2021 - 16:33.

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DOE Releases Report on Consumer Privacy Issues Related to Smart Grid Technologies

Hunton Privacy

On October 5, 2010, the Department of Energy (“DOE”) released a report entitled “Data Access and Privacy Issues Related to Smart Grid Technologies.” The idea behind the Smart Grid is that electricity can be delivered more efficiently using data collected through monitoring consumers’ energy use.

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Risky Business Aging critical infrastructure networks and advanced attacks

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Ransomware is the outcome of the overarching problem of underlying network security shortcomings and unauthorized access to critical infrastructure leaving it vulnerable to cyberattacks. And unfortunately, security is often an afterthought. Data Manipulation. Data security. The Ugly Truth. Encryption.

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The Internet of Things (IoT): Managing the Data Tsunami

Collibra

Continued evolution of chipsets, cloud architectures and AI/ML algorithms will provide evermore scalable storage and computer required to analyse that data. Monetising Data Assets. But exactly how that data is utilized (and potentially monetised) will differ across sectors. Privacy concerns: more data, more problems?

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How AI Could Write Our Laws

Schneier on Security

Big energy companies expect action whenever there is a move to end drilling leases for federal lands, in exchange for the tens of millions they contribute to congressional reelection campaigns. We should expect these techniques to get better and their utilization to grow, just as we’ve seen in so many other domains.

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Monitoring the dark web to identify threats to energy sector organizations

Security Affairs

Searchlight Cyber researchers warn of threat actors that are offering on the dark web access to energy sector organizations. Dark web intelligence firm Searchlight Cyber published a report that analyzes how threat actors in the dark web prepare their malicious operations against energy organizations.