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What is IoT? The internet of things explained

Network World

The internet of things (IoT) is a catch-all term for the growing number of electronics that aren't traditional computing devices, but are connected to the internet to send data, receive instructions or both. What is the internet of things?

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What is Transport Layer Security (TLS)?

Network World

Despite the goal of keeping Web communications private, flaws in the design and implementation of Transport Layer Security have led to breaches, but the latest version – TLS 1.3 – is an overhaul that strengthens and streamlines the crypto protocol. What is TLS?

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IoT Revolution: 5 Ways the Internet of Things Will Change Transportation

CTOvision

Read Taylor Donovan Barnett explain how the Internet of Things will change transportation on Interesting Engineering : Data influences every aspect of your life. If not completely already, the technological landscape will be completely data-centric in the near future.

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Are Your Firewalls and VPNs the Weakest Link in Your Security Stack?

Network World

A Zero Trust platform ensures applications and data are not visible to the public internet and users are only provided least privilege access, preventing lateral movement and protecting against ransomware attacks. With a Zero Trust architecture, the internet is the primary transport medium and effectively becomes the new corporate network.

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Alkira expands NaaS platform with ZTNA capabilities

Network World

What ZTNA does is on the same fabric that you have, where you are doing on prem to on prem, cloud to cloud, on prem to cloud, everything to internet, so on and so forth, now you can also layer in users directly into that,” Manan Shah, senior vice president of products at Alkira, told Network World. “A

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Google hopes to thwart quantum computers from cracking today's internet encryption

Network World

The encryption methods used to secure today’s internet communications won’t be impenetrable forever. The processing power offered by "hypothetical, future" quantum computers could be enough to “decrypt any internet communication that was recorded today,” wrote Matt Braithwaite, a Google software engineer in a company blog post on Thursday.

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IOWN and the Next Internet

CIO Business Intelligence

We need a new generation of the Internet to address these obstacles – an Internet that is personal, functional, smart, inspires trust, and can be widely adopted by all. And it will do all of this while also significantly lowering Internet power consumption.

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