CIOL

The security software market is undergoing a dramatic transformation due to four key developments, according to Gartner. The use of advanced analytics, expanded ecosystems, adoption of software as a service (SaaS) and managed services, and the prospect of punitive regulations are causing enterprises to rethink their security and risk management software requirements and investments.

Tele Analysis

2020 is the year, according to some, when the first 5G commercial networks could go live. For many telecoms operators 2020 can’t come soon enough. Why? That’s because there are billions of devices coming online thanks to the Internet of Things (IoT). Gartner predicts that by 2020 there will be over 6.4 billion “connected things” worldwide.

The Economic Times

By Monika Mitra

With the Internet of Things (IoT), possibilities always galore. What if people could propel themselves up ten floors instead of being ferried in a stainless steel box we call the elevator. Again, consider refrigerators ordering your daily fix by gauging your location and preference in real-time.

Times of India

By Ranjani Ayyar While lay-offs in the IT (information technology) industry have been the talk of the town, he sees opportunities here too. After steering HR (human resources) services provider Randstad from Japan for over 20 years, the newly appointed India head Paul Dupuis is settling into his new home in Bengaluru.

New Indian Express

By M Rajendran

The government is planning solutions and devices for waste management using internet of things (IoT). The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology is examining a proposal to use IoT for waste management as part of its Smart City programme.

The Hindu

At a time when IoT, or Internet of Things, is the buzz word, a study by Cisco has found that as many as 60% of IoT initiatives stall at the Proof of Concept stage, and only 26% of companies have had an IoT initiative that they considered a complete success. Even worse: a third of all completed projects were not considered a success.

Daily O

So the way I look at it, automation may threaten lower-end jobs that are repetitive in nature and can be done with minimal human interference. What we are seeing in the industry now is that the resources being released are being retrained, reskilled and redeployed in other value-added jobs.

Zee Business

“Manufacturing, agriculture-related, healthcare and pharma, home automation, automotive, power and energy, logistics, BFSI, e-commerce are major sectors which will see these jobs being created. Next 5 to 10 years are crucial as automation, Internet of Things (IoT) growth will decide what the jobs needs human intervention and what can be automated,” Ballurkar said.

Daily O

According to a report in the Financial Express, Abhay Savargaonkar, the director of network services (India and South Asia) for Bharti Airtel, said, “The 5G and Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications have tremendous potential to transform lives and we are pleased to partner with Nokia to enable these future technologies for our customers.”

Data Quest

IoT has transformed the way communication service providers operate their business today. This is a result of the huge amount of opportunities that IoT brings along, not just in terms of the scale of investment for the businesses but also the global impact it creates.

Data Quest

The number of denial-of-service (DoS) or distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) cyber attacks doubled from 3% to 6% in 2016, due to the lack of sufficient security controls of Internet-connected Internet of Things (IoT) devices. And of all IoT attacks, 60% originated from Asia, 21% from EMEA and another 19% from the Americas.

The Financial Express

Better decision making and response system: The accuracy of data again empowers enterprise executives to take quick, accurate and data driven decisions. This leads to increased productivity and efficiency. With the introduction and growth in IoT and the massive deployment of sensors, the availability and accessibility of valuable data and information have become easy.

Hindustan Times

By R Sukumar

The boom in IT services was fed by, and in turn, reinforced, a boom in engineering education. Many of the colleges were churning out unemployable engineers but this wasn’t a problem either for the colleges (the students would get snapped up, usually in their third year, by one of the IT companies) or the companies (most had parallel engineering schools running on their sprawling campuses to which these graduates would then head – a sort of finishing school for engineers).

The Times of India

Among Indian respondents, artificial intelligence (AI) and internet of things (IoT) are viewed as important and emerging technologies relevant to digital transformation strategies to businesses. Around 88% Indian respondents believed cloud computing and decreasing cost of devices make it more affordable for companies of all sizes to access modern technology to gain competitive advantage — ahead of the 81% average across Asia.

The Times of India

Industry 4.0 is the intersection and application of the Internet of Things (IoT) to the secondary sector, i.e., manufacturing. Given a strong IT sector and a growing manufacturing sector with initiatives like Make in India, it becomes critical to look into this area from a skill development perspective.

ET Tech

The nation would be crippled, if a hostile entity corrupts or takes control of any of the following: air traffic control systems, hospital management, dematerialised accounts in which shares are held, the sluice gates of dams, railway signalling or core banking software.

Business Standard

Clearly, a large part of new budgets for IT spend are going towards digital solutions. The technologies driving this are SMAC (social media, mobility, analytics and cloud) plus AI/cognitive computing, IoT and security. Happiest Minds, born as a digital company derives almost 70 per cent of its business from digital, with web technologies making up the rest.

CXO Today

The number of denial-of-service (DoS) or distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) cyberattacks doubled from 3% to 6% in 2016, due to the lack of sufficient security controls of Internet-connected Internet of Things (IoT) devices. And of all IoT attacks, 60% originated from Asia, 21% from EMEA and another 19% from the Americas.

BW Disrupt

Mobility has made the concept of location-bound a farce. With the advent of IoT (Internet of things) where millions of devices are now able to communicate, transfer and talk to each other with built in AI (Artificial Intelligence) processes, it is more important to also have a device level security built into the design of each device.

ET CIO

Technologists are, at heart, today’s explorers and inventors, venturing into wild digital frontiers. As the Internet of Things (IoT) evolves, IT leaders are discovering that it is not an endgame but a beginning: The IoT is a launch pad for infinite new forms of digital business and social connection.

The Indian Express

Cyber crooks are now casting a wider net, attacking not just PCs and mobile phones but also Internet-connected devices like security cameras or routers, which has “exponentially” increased the risk landscape, Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins said on Wednesday. The $49 billion firm has a $2 billion security business and is helping customers across the globe devise their security strategy both proactively and reactively.

The Economic Times

Bengaluru has emerged as the prime destination for IoT (Internet of Things) startups to set up a base, as it accounts for 52 per cent of the total IoT start-ups in India, a study by Management Consulting firm Zinnov said.

The Economic Times

While Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem is gaining momentum globally, a new survey has found that enterprises did not consider nearly a third of all the completed projects a success and plenty of things can be done to get more projects out of pilot.

Business World

There is still plenty of legroom for the IT services sector; it’s penetrating into other sectors, such as banking, as well. Bengaluru has matured as an IT services industry and we are moving into emerging technologies such as big data sciences, IoT, animation, artificial intelligence, cyber security, etc.

Factor Daily

Google I/O presented a vision of our AI-first future. In this world where machines see, hear, perceive and perhaps even create, Google wants to organise information that lies beyond digital walls. Like the internet, AI is likely to be a massively disruptive technology that will bring about enormous social, political and cultural change.

Pioneer

“The threat landscape is getting so much bigger. The distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks where 50,000- 100,000 IoT devices were enslaved in a botnet (Mirai attack), Wannacry. The risk is going to increase exponentially and we have to have a robust end-to-end architecture to actually solve this,” Robbins said at the Internet of Things (IoT) World Forum here.

Forbes

Big data, IoT and social media should be important elements of the digital framework that will provide much needed data standardisation. Every governmental agency that deals with citizens needs the same core set of citizen data. In addition to the more established technologies already in production, early evaluation and adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) is imperative.

Business World

Technologies and Tools, which are artificially intelligent, have the potential to effect an automatic change in an electronic device to maximize performance, which will be like humans, but not by the humans. In the modern world, we cannot cross a street, sit on a metro, train, bus or even eat at our popular eateries or restaurants without seeing hordes of people around whose eyes will be glued to their smart phones and tablets.

First Post

The massive global cyber-attack that wreaked havoc in computer systems earlier this month caused plenty of visible disruption, not least in Britain’s National Health Service. But in the brave new interconnected world heralded by the internet of things (IoT), so-called “ransomware” attacks could have as their source something quite mundane and yet present in ever more modern households.

DataQuest

The Smart City initiative promises citizens a better livelihood and advanced infrastructure through optimized resource utilization, enhanced quality of life and efficient service delivery. With urbanization gaining momentum, it presents a strong case for government agencies to leverage the modern, cutting-edge technologies and realize citizens’ dream of a smart city.

YoutStory

Set up in 2015 as part of the government’s Digital India programme, the CoE-IoT was conceived by the Ministry of Electronics & IT (DeitY) and Education and Research Network (ERNET) in association with Nasscom.

The Financial Express

Manufacturing, banking and hospitality industry have started experiencing change on account of deployment of robots and Internet of Things (IoT), as a result of which the calibre of resources and the size of talent pool required would no longer be the same as in the current scenario.

ET Tech

The key challenge for Indian firms is that most view cybersecurity as an “IT issue”. India ranks third globally as a source of malicious activities and its enterprises are the sixth most targeted by cybercriminals

The Hans India As artificial intelligence (AI) powered smart devices and solutions gather momentum globally amid fears of ‘bots’ taking over jobs soon, a top Adobe executive has allayed such fears, saying AI will actually assist people intelligently. “Saying AI will take over the creativity of humans is not right. It will take away a lot of stuff that you have to do in a mundane way.

Deccan Chronicle

In the brave new inter-connected world heralded by the internet of things (IoT), so-called “ransomware” attacks could have as their source something quite mundane and yet present in ever more modern households.

PC Quest

By Ashok Pandey

Internet of Things may not exactly be a new concept for organizations. For years, technologies like M2M have been used exclusively by the operations teams and technicians within the company. It is only recently that it became a mainstream term in the enterprise IT world.

The Indian Express

By Pranav Mukul

Nasscom said it has identified new skills such as big data analytics, cloud and cyber-security services, internet-of-things, among others as areas that would create job roles going ahead. It also said that a number of its member firms including TCS, Infosys, Accenture, Genpact were undertaking a skills initiative that looked at training employees across all levels.

New Indian Express

The fight against cyberattacks has sparked exponential growth in global protection spending, with the cyber security market estimated at $120 billion this year, more than 30 times its size just over a decade ago.

Business World

Tectonic shifts are underway across process and discrete industries due to the need for capital efficiency, asset efficiency and resource efficiency. These trends are nurturing the growth of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), Industry 4.0.

Bloomberg

While financial year 2017-18 may not be significantly different from FY17, transition in the IT sector is gaining momentum with digital revenues driving growth and contributing substantially to revenues, according to a recent Credit Suisse report. The report suggests IT spends are shifting from traditional areas to newer areas such as mobility, cloud, analytics and Internet of Things (IoT).

CXO Today

Enterprises are waking up to a new wave of cyber attack as WannaCry spreads its notorious wings. While globally, the ransomwarehits over 2 lakh computers, India was one of the worst hit nations by WannaCry as more than 40,000 computers were affected. However, the threat is far from over.

The New Indian Express

By Ramzauva Chhakchhuak  

A community of techies, entrepreneurs, hackers in the city called Applied Singularity want to promote a more harmonious view of AI, tap into its commercial potential and create awareness on it. They were earlier a community of around 10,000 IoT (internet of things) enthusiasts, one the largest in the world, but but have recently extended their ambit to AI as well.

Business Standard

“Hence, there is a new wave of cyber attacks where the hacker is least interested in the personal information of the victim and instead his only motivation is to gain access to the CPU of the victim’s computer/mobile/IoT device so that they can use it to mine more currencies (and correspondingly make more money),” Modi told IANS.

BW Disrupt

The speed at which technological change are taking place is really frightening and is becoming dynamic. Digital Transformation is a buzz across organizations and everyone is talking about it and wants to ride this wave and be ready. AI, VR, AR, IOT all are leading to a change in the way data is being appreciated and hence has its impact on the marketing industry.

Data Quest

Information and communication technology (ICT), smart grids, wireless sensor systems and Internet of Things (IoT) have enabled smart ecosystem where everything will remain interconnected to each other with minimal human intervention. In the present Machine to Machine (M2M) era, manpower has lesser role to play due to effective implementation of digital systems and technologies.

The Times of India

Speaking further, he said, “Currently seven billion people are connected to each other through social media platforms. With Internet of Things (IOT), over 50 billion devices are expected to be connected to each other by 2020.”

PC Mag

Akamai’s quarterly state of the internet reports provide insight into global cloud security and threat landscape. The data is collected from the company’s Intelligent Platform, which analyses network traffic from around the web.

Digit

This evolution of IoT is represented by three major phases: connecting the unconnected, creating smart and connected things, and building a software-defined autonomous world.

BW Disrupt

This unique convergence of technologies like, data sciences, mobility, IoT, artificial intelligence (AI) is set to change the way insurers did business in the past and will open new avenues for innovation of products and services

The Financial Express

The second reality-check for the industry came when McKinsey & Company released a report claiming that nearly half of the IT services workforce will be rendered “irrelevant” over the next 3-4 years. This is mainly due to the changing nature of jobs in IT with the advent of newer fields like automation, robotics, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT).

Electronics For You

Considering these trends and the strong push from the government for Digital India, the market for emerging technologies like Internet of Things (IoT) related components, products and solutions is bound to grow significantly. This, in turn, may represent a significant growth opportunity for organisations offering such related components, products and solutions. (Nasscom )

Live Mint

By Leslie D Monte

Cybersecurity Ventures predicts global annual cybercrime costs will grow from $3 trillion in 2015 to $6 trillion by 2021, which includes damage and destruction of data, stolen money, lost productivity, theft of intellectual property, theft of personal and financial data, embezzlement, fraud, post-attack disruption to the normal course of business, forensic investigation, restoration and deletion of hacked data and systems, and reputational harm. The problem will only get compounded when billions of devices get connected in the next few years—the phenomenon known as the Internet of Things (IoT).

Electronics For You

Though industrial manufacturers are lagging in their adoption of Cloud based services and connecting their legacy systems to digital networks, vision for a vast Internet of Things (IoT) market is starting to take shape. Industrial manufacturing applications will generate more than US $ 138 million in 2017 from mobile and satellite connectivity fees, forecasts ABI Research.

Mint

The Industrial Age, which most IT services firms belong to, is now passé. Analysts and investors have so far rightly judged the performance of these firms by using Industrial Age metrics, such as growth in the number of employees, simply because these firms were “factories” whose sole line of work was increasing the number of people they could use to bill customers.

SME Channels

When we were looking at Cloud people were very skeptical so also the organizations but today when we talk that we are entering an era of connected world and app based economy people are no more skeptical. They are finding it very inter esting. Therefore, moving into the era of connected world which is based on IoT technologies looks to be easy. They are ready to transact through apps and access solutions through Cloud.

BW Disrupt

To address this we need both conventional and technological approaches, conventional approaches like investment in infrastructure and machines and effective use of emerging technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI), IoT and Machine Learning.

SME Channels

The Internet of Things (IoT) is the future of Internet technologies in which every object around us will be connected using some kind of network to every other object, and they will also have the capability to send and receive data from them. Continuous development and innovation of IoT solutions cannot be executed independently by any organization and it is here that the role of Channel partners fits in.

SME Times

The manufacturing industry must expect cloud, the Internet of Things (IoT) and analytics to be key areas of technology investment. While these were topics of conversation and exploration in 2016, manufacturers will now have the opportunity to move past the design and concept stage to full-on production execution and deployment of these technologies.

The New Indian Express

Questions are swirling over who is responsible for the security flaws exploited by hackers in the world’s biggest ransomware attack to date, which crippled thousands of businesses and public organizations around the world.

CXO Today

The demand for more consumer-centric products like smartphones and Tablets have surged the growth in the communication market. With more focus on newer technologies like IoT, semiconductor industry is seeing heightened traction.

The Hindu Business Line

As digitisation and automation become the new normal, IT biggies like Infosys, Cognizant and Tech Mahindra are seeing a spate of layoffs and this trend may continue for the next 1-2 years, say experts.

The Economic Times

Artificial intelligence or AI as it is called in cyber parlance, and believed to be the next big thing in information and technology, can play key role in good governance, a senior Microsoft official has said.

Live Mint

“Unlike most other attacks, this malware is spreading primarily by direct infection from machine to machine on local networks, rather than purely by email,” said Lance Cottrell, chief scientist at the US technology group Ntrepid.

The Economic Times

Both consumers and the media are fascinated by IoT innovations already in the market. These “smart” devices have sensors that communicate seamlessly over the internet with other devices or the cloud, generating data that make the world safer, more productive, and healthier.

Business Standard

By Ashish Gulati

The Internet of Things (IoT) has emerged from a prolonged primary stage and began taking over the world. As per TechCrunch (a leading technology media & information portal), IoT is reaching escape velocity. Internet-connected sensors and applications will soon be monitoring and even running every aspect of our lives – from our ‘smart’ homes to our self-driven cars to our retail habits and all the way to our health and fitness.

The Economic Times

Business is now in the midst of the most significant disruption in decades. This epochal transformation has been driven largely by technological changes —big data and advanced analytics, additive manufacturing, the Internet of Things, robotics and artificial intelligence —collectively described as the fourth industrial revolution.

BGR

By Deepali Moray

Lights that switch on as you wake up, music that plays when you are taking a shower, a kettle that brews coffee without you telling it and doors that identify you; sounds like an ideal scene from a sci-fi flick isn’t it? But this underlying technology is now gradually being offered with what is called as IoT or Internet of Things.

The Economic Times

Management consulting firm Zinnov has come out with an Internet of Things (IoT) report which says that by 2020 the IoT market will increase almost three times from $5.6 billion to $15 billion and there will be more than 2.7 billion such interconnected devices. Till date, startups in India have raised over $169 million and Bengaluru is the prime location for IoT-focused startups

Tech Digg

The internet of things is allowing businesses to automate processes that once required human employees to complete. Organisations around the planet no longer abide to the 9 till 5 office regime that we were once used to, they run 24/7 around the clock with little or no human interference whatsoever

Live Mint

By Shelly Seth

The report, which dwells on the impact of digital technologies in the automotive industry, said digital engineering, 3D printing, smart sensors and the Internet of Things (IoT), are poised to disrupt auto research and development, manufacturing, sales, marketing and after-sales services.

Business World

Home automation is “The Internet of Things” at homes. The way that all of our devices and appliances will be networked together to provide us with a seamless control over all aspects of our home and more. Intelligence, connectivity, sensing, expression, energy and safety – that’s Internet of Things (IoT’s) collective vision for the future.

Outlook

Over 400 global exhibitors from around 40 countries are participating in this exhibition. “Smart cities doesn’t essentially mean new cities, or added infrastructure, but incorporating smart technologies for the current cities. State governments and cities have now realised that they need to be more liberal,” Gauba said.

BW Disrupt

Thus far, processing Internet of Things (IoT) data has enabled users to derive at more data-driven and sophisticated insights in real-time. In 2017, big data will continue to play a big role in developing algorithms that will be the driving force for autonomous capabilities.

ET Telecom

The transition to 5G is being heralded as a game changer. While the 4G transformed the consumer space for communication devices, 5G could revolutionize both the consumer and the industrial markets. The transition is pertinent to development of the Internet of Things (IOT) market, which will comprise millions of connected devices for the benefit of billions of people.

The Financial Express

By Sudhir Chowdhary

“Indians faced a total of 1,148 ransomware attacks per day the highest in the region”, says Tarun Kaura, director, product management, Asia Pacific Japan, Symantec. In an interaction with Sudhir Chowdhary, he shares insights on the changing threat landscape

BW Disrupt

Would guardians begin to slacken the confinements on children to a point toddlers are exposed to smart apps that can collect data on your child during unsupervised Internet time? On the off chance that these applications require information on the young and afterward is exploited using technologies like the Internet of Things, the potential danger increases, tenfold.

My Mobile

India ranks the second highest, behind China, in IoT-enabled customer maturity compared with other Asia Pacific (aPaC) markets, revealed a new study commissioned by Genesys, a global leader in customer experience and contact centre solutions, in partnership with Frost & Sullivan, an IoT and technology research firm.

The Economic Times

By Priyanka Sangani

The report said that that IoT and operating technology devices must be considered as both a potential source and target of attack. Of the IoT attacks detected in 2016, some 66% were attempting to discover specific devices such as a particular model of video camera, 3% were seeking a web server or other type of server, while 2% were attempting to attack a database.

BW Disrupt

However, in this new age of Industry 4.0, it is now possible for manufacturers to achieve this via a combination of Big Data and the Internet of Things (IoT) in other words, achieving end-to-end connectivity across the entire manufacturing process and throughout the supply chain.

Data Quest

When technology embraces intelligence, transformation become the order of the day. Call it Connected Machines or Internet of Things (IoT), the next wave of the Industrial Revolution is here and its impacting every sector of the global economy.

The Financial Express

Big data solutions for storing and analysing IoT generated data

Business World

We, the Homo sapiens, have become used to digital technology, but it has impacted us like an avalanche, opening up more avenues than it has blocked. On the other hand, it’s either by choice or compulsion we can’t assume a life now without its use or application.

The Hindu Business Line

Threat actors often utilise public cloud to orchestrate attacks due to the low cost and stability of this infrastructure. Of the IoT attacks detected in 2016, some 66% were attempting to discover specific devices such as a particular model of video camera, 3% were seeking a web server or other type of server, while 2% were attempting to attack a database.

CXO Today

Always enable two factor authentications for all your Gmail account and use separate email address while taking backup on a cloud. Don’t limit the ransomware only to computers and the networks which are getting infected. Vectors are going towards the phase where they want to control IOT devices to execute targeted attacks.

Data Quest

When technology embraces intelligence, transformation become the order of the day. Call it Connected Machines or Internet of Things (IoT), the next wave of the Industrial Revolution is here and its impacting every sector of the global economy.

The Hindu

Leaving behind the first industrial revolution that swept the western world more than 250 years ago, when the production equipment used to be powered by steam and water, the world has become a rapidly evolving ‘digital’ landscape.

BW Disrupt

By Hamid Farooqui

The Internet of Things is exactly that “what if” put into action. As Internet connectivity gets embedded into everything from baby monitors to industrial sensors, investors, entrepreneurs and engineers are rushing to cash in. It is physical objects, embedded and enhanced with sensors and wireless capability, sending signals to each other and data to our phones.

Indian CEO

Internet of Things (IoT) – As a technological evolution, IoT serves as the bridge to connect Internet of mobile devices with everyday objects. According to the Business Insider’s ‘The Internet of Things Ecosystem Research Report’ published in 2016, almost $6 trillion is expected to be invested on IoT solutions for the next 5 years.

News Today

Specifically key trends like the Internet of Things (IOT), Robotic process automation (RPA), Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Virtual Reality (VR) have piqued the interest of CIOs, the survey indicated.

The Hans India

Speaking on the future of the industry, Reddy said, “Latest technologies like Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data, cloud, and software defined world will change the way we live work. However, there is a strong role to be played by government, corporates, associations and academia to develop digital infrastructure and ecosystem.” “NU is taking a leadership role towards building competencies

Data Quest

Specifically key trends like the Internet of Things (IOT), Robotic process automation (RPA), Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Virtual Reality (VR) have piqued the interest of CIOs and it is increasingly incumbent on businesses to adopt these disruptive technologies to yield better business outcomes.

IB Times

The Narendra Modi government’s demonetisation initiative towards a cashless economy is expected to have a far reaching impact on the country’s IT infrastructure as it calls for greater focus on various deciding factors. What makes the vision of a digital India more promising is a steady growth in areas like cloud computing, internet of things (IoT) and broadband penetration, which will generate a huge demand for a strong IT infrastructure.

Business World

Mishra also highlighted some of the new areas of investment, which include smart city deployments and IoT initiatives. “Customers continue to invest in technology to save money, and use some of those savings for new projects,” said Mishra. “The new investments in smart cities, for instance, are fuelling the marketplace.”

Mint

The latest Internet of Things (IoT) strategies report, ‘IoT Cellular Connections by Industry Vertical, Bandwidth and Region,’ by research firm Strategy Analytics has projected that IoT cellular connections will grow significantly through 2025.

Data Quest

By Shrikanth G

Manufacturing has emerged as one of the high growth sectors in India as well . The Government of India has set an ambitious target of increasing the contribution of manufacturing output to 25 per cent of GDP by 2025, from 16 per cent currently – a target which can only be achieved by adoption of new technology to improve processes and increase output.

Forbes

The services aligned to advanced threat protection, email security, cloud, mobility and IoT security solutions, data center and network security solutions will take a mainstream of business for some of the leading cyber security service providers like Symantec, Force point and the major consulting firms will take the lead in this space.

The Financial Express

To become truly digital, one has to move beyond the obvious, come out of silos, and adopt an integrated, inclusive and collaborative approach. This would naturally push us to adopt revolutionary technologies, like mobility, cloud, Internet of Things (IoT), etc.

The Indian Express

With the dawn of IoT, the world has been steering into a futuristic dynamics. Today, there has been a gradual co-dependency on technology to drive social as well as personal lives. As societies familiarize with technological advancements, they become qualified to take benefit of Information Technology and enable communication amongst devices without human intervention.

The Hindu

Shortly after Bengaluru made what could be its last pitch at making it to the “smart city” list, a workshop organised by the Smart Cities India Foundation here on Wednesday made a bid at roping in startups in the process of strengthening digital and telecommunications in the city, as well as batting for adoption of Internet of Things (IOT) in civic governance.

BW CIO World

In Europe, IoT connections are set to exceed 9 billion by 2021. Dedicated venture funds for IoT development will help create an ecosystem that is conducive to the growth of startups in the region.

DNA

Despite all of the talk surrounding smart, connected homes and the Internet of Things, according to analysts and research firms, the only area where the technology is really gaining traction with consumers is home security, an area where the benefits are clear.

Tech Digg

DDoS (Denial-of-service) attacks are quite frequent, and hackers mainly use this method to target unsecured websites or those with weak security, to begin with. Over the past number of years, there have been several advances in the bid to cut down on the amount of DDoS attacks per year – but as expected, new problems usually arise.

Bloomberg Quint

Imagine a factory machine that predicts when it requires maintenance – then automatically orders the parts needed to fix itself, or a piece of equipment that can manage its own energy consumption. These are just the tip of the iceberg of exciting opportunities promised by the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).

Fortune India

By Ashish Gupta

Every product from nowwill have a layer of AI, not just to connect it with other products (which is IoT or the Internet of Things) but to make them more intelligent through self-learning, using structured and unstructured data.

Bloomberg Quint

In our increasingly digital world, we often hear various buzzwords describing game-changing technologies that are set to change the way we live, work and play. Undoubtedly, the Internet of Things has already started redefining how we go about our everyday lives.

Times of India

By Amrutha varshinii

To meet the daily needs of smart automation, engineers labour in labs crafting new-age machines that push boundaries of performance through innovation. Big-ticket government projects like smart cities and Digital India are banking on innovation and core areas like artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and internet of things (IoT) have emerged as trends that will expand in the coming years.

The New Indian Express

By Shruthi HM

While the Indian IT sector continues to lay off employees in its shift towards automation, a dearth for leadership, coupled with reservations about data security, is hindering the digital disruption. For engineers, this means there won’t be a spur in the job market within the automated systems companies are putting in place.

Data Quest

Big data, data analytics, data scientists, machine learning, and IoT are new-age professions that have created a strong and relevant niche for themselves in a short period. Not only has it opened new avenues for developing workforce skills, its demand across a wide array of applications for business practices is consistently growing.

Deccan Chronicle

Kaspersky Lab has published the results of its investigation into the activity of Hajime — a mysterious evolving Internet of Things (IoT) malware that builds a huge peer-to-peer botnet.

PC Quest

By Adeesh Sharma

We are increasingly witnessing the democratization of coding. Developers are looking to quickly create applications with microservices, APIs, containers, machine learning, mobile backends and chatbots using modern DevOps processes. They need rich and robust platform capabilities including big data and analytics, integration, management and monitoring, mobility and the Internet of Things (IoT).

Millennium Post

By Mukta  Patil

The building of a green energy corridor, along with renewable energy management centres, will prove vital for evacuation of power between states, since solar and wind power potential is concentrated in a few states–nine states are expected to account for more than 77 per cent of renewable energy capacity addition by 2022.

Data Quest

Cyber criminals have set their sights on networked devices such as televisions, refrigerators, and baby cameras. We hear every day about the increasing number of hacker attacks, but this is an entirely new problem. It’s been created by the incredibly high number of inadequately protected IoT systems flooding the market.

Your Story

By Tanvi Dubey

With curricula developed in robotics, IoT, image processing, 3D printing, drones, and many more emerging technologies, they started teaching from a centre in Chennai. Their students were mostly college students and corporates who wanted their engineers to be up to date with technology.

The Times of India

Privacy — as is understood in the West — is about people being aware in an informed way about how their data is being used more by corporates, and not so much by governments. The second dimension of privacy is: what are the accountability mechanisms on companies to make sure the data in their systems is used responsibly.

BGR India

A new mysterious malware that builds a vast peer-to-peer botnet to infect the Internet of Things (IoT) worldwide has been identified with almost 300,000 devices under its control, ready to perform a large-scale DDoS attack. ‘Hajime’, meaning ‘beginning’ in Japanese, was identified by Russia-based cyber security firm Kaspersky Lab and has recently been propagating extensively, infecting multiple devices worldwide.

The Economic Times

By Aritra Sarkhel

With cyber risks burgeoning, companies need to catch up and Accenture Security provides end-to-end security across industries with cyber fusion centres in Tel Aviv, Bangalore, Washington DC and Prague.

The Financial Express

By Sudhir Chowdhary

Technology changes are all around us, and coming faster than ever. Today, every business is a digital business, and people are engaging with and relying on technology more than before.

Tech Digg

Internet of Things (IoT) is well on its way to this level of intelligence. While you probably (hopefully) aren’t having conversations with the TV remote yet, AI research and IoT development are on a collision course with one and other.