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  • How cybersecurity challenges and trends will mark 2021?

    How cybersecurity challenges and trends will mark 2021?

    As 2021 emerges on the horizon, here are the top trends that our threat researchers feel will define the New Year.

    Ransomware propagation: the first quarter of 2021 will provide some respite to cybersecurity teams battling ransomware. Already we are seeing signs of a slowdown as malware developers are investing more time in developing new ransomware. This respite is however temporary as new and stronger ransomware and variants will start emerging from April.

    Attack fatigue: nation state actors have shown signs of fatigue setting in. After ruthlessly targeting vulnerable sectors such as healthcare and manufacturing during the pandemic, many hackers have retreated to the comfort of their basements. This trend is expected to continue till the end of Jan 2021.

    Manufacturing, retail and healthcare on the radar: attacks on these sectors will intensify.

    Media and entertainment (M&E) industry will be most impacted sector in 2021. This is based on the trends we are currently seeing especially the activity in the malware forums we are tracking.

    Deep fake videos will be weaponized with greater intensity as part of multi-stage phishing campaigns

    Botnet farms to increase: as 5G rollout gathers pace, more IoT devices will be added some of which will not have the bare minimal levels of security in place.

    Industrial control systems to bear the brunt of sophisticated attacks. Industrial espionage at a large scale will hit energy, power, oil, gas and manufacturing companies

    Data stored on public cloud will be the target of cloud jacking in a more organized manner

    Subex is here to help

    We will be glad to help you address your security challenges in the New Year. At Subex, we have a robust and evolved IoT and OT security solution backed by consulting and SoC services tailored to your unique cybersecurity needs.

    Subex is today securing the business of its customers around the world. Our suite of solutions bring features such as cyber deception, device discovery, threat detection and deflection and prevention of lateral movement of threats. These are essential to keep your business safe and protected.

    The article is originally published at Subex Secure

    Learn the important considerations for improving IoT security outcomes and digital trust

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  • The holistic approach to securing IoT Ecosystems

    The holistic approach to securing IoT Ecosystems

    With the convergence of the physical and digital world, IoT ecosystem is becoming more pervasive and smart. With its “connected” nature, the concept of securing the IoT ecosystem has taken precedence and has today become a necessity. It is no longer a question of “IF” IoT networks will get hacked, It’s “WHEN.”  Organizations should be concerned about what should be done “WHEN” the ecosystem is compromised.

    The blog discusses the various risks the IoT boom poses, and the approached organizations need to adopt to safeguard themselves.

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    Note: Published with permission from Liveworx

    As a digital service provider, your adoption of Internet of Things (IoT) services presents opportunities as well as challenges. The upside: IoT opens new revenue streams by providing always-connected services to digital subscribers. The downside: IoT exposes subscribers to identity theft and security breaches. Subex provides holistic cyber security to ensure that enterprises are safe from unauthorized access and intrusion across their network.Subex Secure offers comprehensive IoT security coverage from real-time discovery and monitoring to response and recovery. Our solution leverages a one-of-its-kind honeypot network that combines physical devices and device emulations to generate IoT / ICS signatures. Our system evaluates global identity and device breaches and updates the Subex Secure signature repository to safeguard your enterprise from new and emerging IoT threats.

  • Next Generation Wearables: A Future Without Phones?

    Next Generation Wearables: A Future Without Phones?

    Today’s wearables can monitor heart rate, breathing rate, sleeping patterns, calories burned, intensity of activity, sleep patterns, temperature and much more. Work is underway to turn these wearable devices into bendable, stretchable forms that can be 3D printed or stamped directly onto human skin.

    One of the earliest commercial examples of bendable wearables is in conjunction with the Proteus digital pill proteus.com — a device that incorporates a grain of sand sized ingestible sensor into a pill that can measure a patient’s medication-taking patterns and physiologic response.

    Once the ingestible sensor reaches the stomach, it transmits a signal to a wearable Proteus patch worn on the torso. From there, a digital record is sent to the patient’s mobile device, and then to the Proteus cloud where with the patient’s permission, healthcare providers and caregivers can access it via a portal. The patch also measures and shares patient metrics such as sleep patterns and physical activity levels.

    Proteus’ peel-and-stick biometric sensor patch is the first of many flexible sensor patches. Earlier this year, engineers at University of California, Berkeley https://news.berkeley.edu/2016/01/27/wearable-sweat-sensors/, developed a prototype wrist device that incorporates a wireless flexible PCB [printed circuit board] and a flexible sensor array that’s able to analyse the chemicals in sweat. And, Cambridge MA-based MC10 has developed a thin electronic mesh that stretches with the skin and can monitor data from the brain, muscles, heart, temperature, movement, hydration and strain. Their BioStampRC Sensor https://www.mc10inc.com/our-products/biostamprc conforms to the contours of the human body.

    These biometric devices will provide many opportunities for ultra-individualised healthcare services, safety monitoring and self-quantification.

    They also point the way to the future of mobile devices.

    Researchers at MIT Media Lab and Microsoft Research recently released research on a project known as DuoSkin https://duoskin.media.mit.edu/ — a fabrication process that enables rapid prototyping of functional devices directly on a user’s skin using gold leaf as a key material. DuoSkin is a skin-based user interface that senses touch input, displays outputs and communicates wirelessly with other devices — allowing control of external devices directly from a skin-based patch that looks like jewellery.

    Then there are the latest augmented reality smart glasses, which process user input based on hand gestures and voice commands. In the future, these smart glasses will morph into smart contacts, which will undoubtedly communicate with an array of sensors on and in our bodies.

    In the telco space, mobile operators generate sizeable revenue streams from the sale of handsets, as well as using subsidized handsets as in incentive to lock customers into multi-year contract periods.

    Mobile hardware revenue continues to grow, increasing year-on-year in line with average recommended retail prices on high-end smartphones.

    What will happen to this lucrative revenue stream in the coming 3-5 year timeframe? Will smartphones continue to be a cash cow for the mobile industry? Will smart glasses replace the mobile handset revenue stream?

    I hope you can join me at the Subex User Conference https://dev.enki.studio/test/subex-user-conference/ in Jaipur India where I will explore these and many other trends in my keynote speech on “Unlocking the Future.”

    * Photo Credit: MIT Media Lab https://duoskin.media.mit.edu/