Finnish telco vendor Nokia is collaborating with Siemens to deliver an IP/MPLS backbone communications network and cybersecurity solution for the new metro railway network in Sydney, Australia.
COMPANY NEWS: Siemens, a leading technology company, and Intel, one of the world’s largest semiconductor companies, have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to collaborate on driving digitalisation and sustainability of microelectronics manufacturing.
COMPANY NEWS: Siemens and Paessler announce that Paessler PRTG monitoring software will be used as the monitoring solution of the Siemens Lifecycle Management Suite.
GUEST RESEARCH: Aqua Security, the pioneer in cloud native security, today announced that its security research team, Aqua Nautilus, discovered 250 million artifacts and 65,600 container images that were exposed via thousands of misconfigured container images, Red Hat Quay registries, JFrog Artifactory and Sonatype Nexus artifact registries.
COMPANY NEWS: Close to 10 years ago, Siemens introduced asymmetric cryptography into the integrated security architecture of its TIA Portal v12 and SIMATIC S7-1200/1500 PLC CPU firmware families. This was done to ensure the integrity and confidentiality of devices and user programs, as well as for the protection of device communication within industrial environments.
GUEST EVENT: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE EVENT INVITE 19 SEPTEMBER 2022. NVIDIA will host its next GTC conference virtually from 19–22 September (20–23 in ANZ), featuring a news-packed keynote by founder and CEO Jensen Huang, and more than 200 sessions with global business and technology leaders.
GUEST EVENT: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE EVENT INVITE 19 SEPTEMBER 2022. NVIDIA will host its next GTC conference virtually from 19–22 September (20–23 in ANZ), featuring a news-packed keynote by founder and CEO Jensen Huang, and more than 200 sessions with global business and technology leaders.
Communications system specialist Omnitronics has promoted its global sales manager and vice president of sales John Jordan to the role of CEO.
COMPANY NEWS: TeamViewer, a leading global provider of remote connectivity and workplace digitalisation solutions, today announced a new strategic partnership with Siemens Digital Industries Software to bring the power of TeamViewer’s enterprise augmented reality platform Frontline to Siemens’ Teamcenter software, a leading product lifecycle management solution from the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio. This collaboration allows Siemens’ global customers to improve their product development process based on immersive experiences with interactive, 3D content connected to the digital twin of a product. The 3D models of products can be easily modified, enabling more teams across the product lifecycle to collaborate and thus driving more informed product decisions and innovation.
This is the last entry in Team82’s series examining the security of network management systems for the Extended Internet of Things (XIoT). Read our previous reports looking into Nagios XI and Moxa MX View.
COMPANY NEWS: Zscaler, the leader in cloud security, and Siemens, an innovation leader in automation and digitalisation, deliver a proven solution, that combines the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange cloud security platform and Siemens' devices to help customers with operational technology (OT) infrastructures accelerate their secure digital transformation initiatives. Offered direct from Siemens, customers worldwide will be able to obtain the Zscaler Remote Access for OT alongside Siemens' flexible local processing platform Scalance LPE. The new solution enables customers to securely manage, control quality assurance, and analyse production OT infrastructures and its applications from any workplace in any location.
India based data-driven business transformation specialist BluePi Consulting has appointed Gaurav Sharma to the role of CEO for Australia and New Zealand, following the opening of the company's first international operations in Sydney.
GUEST RESEARCH: White-hat researchers, including Claroty’s Team82, have made relatively quick work of finding vulnerabilities in the software, firmware, and communication protocols governing devices that keep shop floors running, the lights on, the water clean, and fuel pumped from refineries to homes around the world.
COMPANY NEWS: Siemens and Zscaler, the leader in cloud security, are partnering to enable customers to securely access operational technology (OT) systems and applications in the production network from the workplace – whether in the office or working remote. These new capabilities enable users to remotely manage and control quality assurance or diagnoses issues.
Claroty says the vulnerability in Siemens PLCs may allow an unauthenticated attacker to write arbitrary data and code to protected memory areas or read sensitive data to launch attacks. As a response, Siemens rolls mitigation measures to reduce risks.
Google Cloud has teamed with industrial automation and software technology provider Siemens to cooperate on optimising factory processes and to improve productivity on the shop floor.
Company News: Cohesity today announced a new company valuation of US$3.7 billion, which is US$1.2 billion higher than its valuation less than 12 months ago. This dramatic growth in valuation continues to validate the incredible trajectory and momentum Cohesity is seeing as the modern multicloud data management company.
Decision-making platform provider Board International has made four senior appointments.
Monash University and health and medical technology vendor Siemens Healthineers offering an Introduction to Digital Health course.
China plans to invest up to US$1.4 trillion (A$1.9 trillion) to build up its semiconductor industry so that it can achieve self-sufficiency and not be subject to the kind of sanctions that the US has imposed on Huawei, a report claims.