Sochi Security and Logistics Goes for Gold

Hundreds of skis, thousands of people, and billions of dollars worth of assets – what do they have in common? All of the above and more have been carefully monitored and tracked for the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics. For security and logistical purposes, the Olympic committee needed to stay in control of what – and…

Securing the Internet of Things

I wrote recently about the consumer-IoT’s “basket of remotes” problem, the realization that the growing divergence of a “hodge-podge of ad hoc solutions managed through fragmented systems” risks needlessly complicating consumer’s already busy lives. Fortunately, industrial and commercial sources such as Advantech are already well ahead of their consumer counterparts in delivering comprehensive integrated IoT…

Of Smartphones and Gaming Enterprises

I spent way too much of last weekend cleaning unmentionable crud out of my Smartphone. No, I didn’t drop it in the toilet. In that case, I’d know whom to blame – me – and the lesson would have been clear: Don’t take your Smartphone into the bathroom! Instead, hidden away in its internal storage,…