The Economic Times

“The problem with current IoT device security is that both customers and vendors mistakenly think that if you place the device inside your network, and separate it from the wider internet with the help of a router, you will solve most security problems or at least significantly decrease the severity of existing issues.

ET CIO

With an increasing pool of potential use cases growing bigger each day, oil and gas companies are implementing Internet of Things (IoT) in all components of the value chain. More specifically energy firms are looking to connect previously separate assets together, which is referred to as the Industrial IoT, to enable collaboration between machine, device and worker.

CXO Today

According to the report, connected devices (Internet of Things) will further drive payments digitization – in India and globally – with around 30 billion connected devices anticipated globally by 2025. At the same time, cyberattacks cost India an estimated $4 billion annually, and could rise to $20 billion by 2025, with the digitization of payments presenting new challenges for cybersecurity, the report mentioned.

Newstrack

By Sakshi Chaturvedi

Blockchain has the potential and can be implemented across diverse sectors such as banking, education, and health. For instance, we keep our savings, assets and cash with banks because they are trustworthy and secure. However, their data is centralised, making them quite prone to cyber criminals that can bring the entire banking system to a halt. Now consider a person working abroad who wants to send a remittance to his family back home but has to encounter multiple clearances before his family receives it. With blockchain technology, the concept of crypto currency comes into picture, thus resulting in an open-access registry of monetary flows which makes the intermediation of financial institutions unnecessary and even costs less.

Tech Observer While the influence of technology has permeated every industry and sector conceivable, whether it’s Banking, Manufacturing or Healthcare, the role technology is playing in shaping the real estate & construction industry is of transformational nature. Of particular interest is the role new-gen technologies like Blockchain, Internet of Things (IoT), Machine learning, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics are playing in shaping the industry. And among them Blockchain related technologies seems to be most talked about and most misconstrued as well. Industry pundits, across the globe, seem to reckon that Blockchain could have a large and lasting impact on the way real estate gets done, but it requires big changes, not just minor tweaks.

ET Rise

By J. Vignesh

The odds were stacked against Rohit Kumar Pandey, cofounder of artificial intelligence-based healthcare startup Sigtuple. Pandey and his cofounders were up against tough questions like legal requirements, privacy issues, data management and data annotations. All of this for acquiring medical data.

Deccan Chronicle

Utilities can increase their efficiency by using more artificial intelligence (AI) technology, such as software to predict demand swings in the power grid or to control home appliances, consultancy Roland Berger said.

European utilities could achieve efficiency gains of up to a fifth over the next five years using such technology, it said, adding that less than a quarter of firms had a strategy to do this. Power firms across Europe, which previously depended on coal or gas-fired power plants, are having to adapt to the expanding use of renewable power sources and facing a profit squeeze as wholesale electricity prices have fallen.

Analytics India

By Richa Bhatia

AI startups are taking the industry by storm – there is no dearth of early stage, vertical AI startups that have put artificial intelligence and deep learning as the core of their value proposition. But how can venture capitalists and tech savvy investors who may have only a baseline understanding of this emerging technology make good business decisions?

CXO Today

The cyber security landscape is getting increasingly complex. According to SonicWall‘s 2018 Cyber Threat Report, malware attacks totalled more than 9.3 billion in 2017, a year-over-year increase of more than 18 percent. And while ransomware attacks dropped from 638 million to 184 million between 2016 and 2017, ransomware variants increased by more than 101 percent. A key observation is that Ransomware against IoT and mobile devices is expected to increase in 2018 with more people using smartphone and connected devices.

Business World

India’s ambitious vision to build 100 citizen-friendly and sustainable cities, popularly known as “Smart Cities” is easily among the most talked about opportunities in India Inc. recently. In PM Modi’s words, “Cities in the past were built on riverbanks. They are now built along highways. But in the future, they will be built based on the availability of optical fiber networks and next-generation infrastructure”. Riding on the positive impact of the large-scale implementation of initiatives such as GST, NREGA, and Aadhaar, there is a renewed sense of optimism regarding the ongoing urban renewal mission.