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How to become an IoT hero for your organization

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You can’t get away from the Internet of Things lately. It’s coming and it’s going to take over everything. Cisco says it will push the number of internet-connected devices to 50 billion by 2020. But you already knew that, because it’s all everybody is talking about.

So, since the IoT is going to take over your organization eventually anyway, you can look at this as an opportunity. You can be the one who introduces it and all the benefits it brings.

But just how, exactly, do you go about introducing this kind of technology? How do you identify the opportunities, and how do you pitch it to the higher-ups in your organization?

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Network World Colin Neagle

New organization sets out to make secure communication tools more user-friendly

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Google, Dropbox and the Open Technology Fund are supporting a new organization focused on making open-source security and privacy tools more user-friendly.

The organization is called Simply Secure and plans to bring together software developers, user-experience researchers and designers to identify usability challenges in secure communication tools and to develop solutions for them.

“There are already many credible and exciting software-development efforts that aim to make privacy and security ubiquitous,” said Sara Sinclair Brody, director of Simply Secure and former product manager at Google, in a blog post Thursday. “Rather than create redundant initiatives, we will focus on supporting existing open source work by providing usability and development expertise, direct ties to user communities, connections to funding sources, and other resources.”

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Report suggests malware hits Iran atomic organization, blasts AC/DC at night – VentureBeat

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VentureBeat

Report suggests malware hits Iran atomic organization, blasts AC/DC at night
VentureBeat
Iran has been the target of quite a few new pieces of malware this year, including the latest Flame malware that many describe as one of the biggest advancements in cyber espionage to date. The virus comes with 20 different modules that, when unpacked, …
Minister Stresses Iran's Ability to Confront All Spy MalwaresFars News Agency
Iranian nuke plants rocked in midnight 'heavy metal blast'Register

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