Earlier this year, ARC Advisory Group, in conjunction with Kaspersky Labs, conducted a survey on the State of Cybersecurity of Industrial Control Systems (ICS) as well as the priorities, concerns, and meer
Software for embedded systems is based more and more on open system platforms, such as Linux Embedded, VxWorks , Windows Embedded, QNX and many others. In addition to powerful core functionality, one meer
In 2016, the Industrial Internet Consortium gained agreement upon an understanding of the term “trustworthiness” and its effect on design and operation of an industrial system. At the core of that und meer
In the Fall 2018 issue of the Industry IoT Consortium (IIC)’s Journal of Innovation, I published an article on Trustworthiness in Industrial System Design . The article introduced trustworthiness as a meer
“Advancing progress toward a technology environment where all software products are safe and secure by design is a top priority for the U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the meer
The team at Automate.org , the North American trade association and a global advocate for advancing the benefits of automation, recently posted what they believe to be the top 5 emerging industrial au meer
In the global railway ecosystem, rolling stock collisions are the most dramatic and newsworthy accidents and disasters imaginable. While rare, they are also the most lethal to human life, as experienc meer
I recently came across a blog post written in 2014 that today seems quite prophetic. Entitled “ Back to the Future: Is Electronic Software Delivery Making a Big Return? ,” the article was posted by Ja meer
As we close out another year full of industry challenges and successes, I am proud to reflect upon our achievements in 2023: Recipient of another prestigious industry award , the launch of a myriad of meer
Certificates are used to prove the authenticity and identity of users or devices on the Internet, in emails, for machine-to-machine communication, and elsewhere. A commonly used certificate is an X.50 meer
Subscription software licensing is gaining traction in nearly every business sector from e-commerce models to enterprise business applications to niche vertical software solutions. In IDC’s Worldwide meer
Dongles – The Historical "Bad Rap" When describing software protection dongles in a 2007 article appearing in PC Magazine , John C. Dvorak, a well-respected (but self-described curmudgeon) and award w meer
We talk a lot about copy protection in this space but what I want to focus on today is what is meant by the phrase "secure software licensing." Let's unpack the term and look at each component separat meer
Anytime you add a 3rd party component into your overall product stack you need to be thoughtful before you decide. Copy protection software is no different: it's something you will rely on to protect meer
Hackers are out there. So you can't take for granted--now or ever--that it won't happen to you. Achieving software security is a complex problem; what's amazing to me is how often the bad guys get in meer
There are plenty of reasons to use a software protection dongle even when you're running an embedded system. Some people believe that embedded systems are immune to piracy because the software has to meer
All is not well within today’s pharmacist community. Several recent reports have documented the growing pressures brought on by increasing workloads with limited resources, time, and staffing. During meer
"Attackers — in ever greater numbers and with increasing sophistication — see, in the growing promise of our tech-connected world, opportunities to steal or cause major disruption or destruction by ex meer
A recent report released by the Economist Intelligence Unit entitled Long-term Macroeconomic Forecasts: Key trends to 2050 highlighted some of the emerging economic issues expected to shape global bus meer
Aside from the widespread attention and hype surrounding the prolific growth expectations of the Internet of Things (IoT), industry focus has been on potential (IoT) device vulnerabilities and cyberse meer