Government Security News February 2017 Digital Edition

AMICO Security Launches Next
Generation ANC Composite Fence
System
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fence system is fire retardant and
corrosion resistant. Laboratory testing
of leakage current and flashover
voltage shows the ANC fence system
revealed no electrical conductivity
for up to 650,000 volts.
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Federal Experts Agree that
‘Internet of Things’ Demands
Simple Baked-In Security
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becoming concerned with identity
and maintaining a “chain of custody
to the device, to the network, to the
solution,” to ensure appropriate access.
The cloud’s role
in IoT development
When it comes to application development
incorporating mobility and
IoT, panelists concurred that the
cloud offers a means of shortcutting
the process, with minimal risk to security.
Government versions of the
cloud are usually more secure than
enterprise offerings, which allows
people to focus on solving their
problem, rather than on building
out infrastructure, said Parikh.
“When we talk about IoT and you
say, ‘Yes, I’m going to build it from
the sensor all the way up to the
cloud and I’m going to have all that
in my agency,’ good luck. We’ll see
you in a couple of decades and you’ll
be left behind,” Parikh noted.
Padin agreed that the cloud offers
a more practical environment
for the coming wave of IoT applications.
IoT sensors, Padin said,
generate “tons of data,” and it isn’t
“realistic” to house that data in an
on-premise system.
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What’s more, the data generated
by IoT devices ties back to mobility,
Padin said. “We have this great
pool of data, what do we do with it?
People want access to it in real-time,
but how?” Mobility can provide active
alerting to take action on data
in real-time, extended to the mobile
device. “All of this is interconnected,”
he said. “It’s a system that needs
to be thought about completely.”
Despite concerns about security,
panelists agreed that there is huge
upside potential to IoT for government
applications.
“These are really quite exciting
times,” said Dodson. “The changes
we will see in this nation in the next
10 years will really dwarf what we
saw with the IT revolution.”
BIO: Tom O’Keefe
is a consultant with
immixGroup, an
Arrow company
that helps technology
companies
do business with
the government. Tom focuses on IT
trends in civilian agencies, as well
as the Internet of Things and mobility.
He can be reached at Tomas_
Okeefe@immixgroup.com, or connect
with him on LinkedIn at www.
linkedin.com/in/tmokeefe.