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Aug
01
2019
Audit and Assessment IoT Standards

Over the past few months, we co-authored a CABA Whitepaper with BC Hydro’s David Rogers. The goal was to write a document that would help IoT vendors identify standards that should be considered for their IoT solutions and organization. As many buyers and procurement departments are developing requirements for products prior to evaluation and purchase ensuring that vendors, especially early stage companies, better understood the options is going to be key to adoption. With regulatory requirements being developed in many regions the future for products is going to mandate that several product categories undergo formal testing and evaluation. Getting ready for this is going to ease the transition, allow vendors to adapt to the frameworks and expand to new markets globally.

TwelveDot is honoured to have worked with staff of BC Hydro and others to develop this body of work and hope that SMB IoT vendors will benefit from our document and the approach to securing your operations and products. Also a shoutout to the folks at CSA Group for the support during this project. The funding was greatly appreciated.

The whitepaper can be found here: https://www.caba.org

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May
09
2019
Cyber Security IoT Secure By Design

Today our CEO presented at IoT613 an Ottawa based conference focused on all things IoT. There was also a developer day before the conference as well. The conference had really good attendance including several vendors or other organizations working in this area. If you are interested in this topic plan to attend the conference next year, speakers provide a range of views and experiences.

Our presentation focused on how to evaluate IoT products and solutions for both security and privacy. The lack of education in this area is of concern as many product companies are amping up their marketing to “assure” of product safety but yet many products have never undergone formal testing and certification nor do many even have secure by design or privacy by design approaches. Security for most IoT vendors is an after thought. When purchasing one of these products assume that security and privacy testing has not been conducted.

If you did not make it out to the presentation please find it attached, we hope that it helps to be better understand the issues.

IoT613 – TwelveDot – May 9 2019

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Jan
25
2019
IoT Mobile Secure By Design Security

If your Toronto and are tracking IoT security and privacy you need to head to the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) on Feb. 27th and the ISOC Multistakeholder events on Feb. 28th. Our CEO will be on a Panel for the IGF to discuss Labeling and will be presenting the Draft report on Labeling at the ISOC meeting the following day.

There will be many open discussions on the current of regulations and requirements that are being developed both in Canada and globally.

Details to IGF event are here

Detail to ISOC event are here

Bring your questions, issues, and problems to our open discussions. We hope to see you there.

 

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Jan
02
2019
Cyber Security IoT Secure By Design Security

Our CEO and President will be on a International Panel to discuss labeling for cyber for consumer and business products in the Canadian marketplace. As the Chair for the ISOC Labeling group for the IoT Security and Privacy Multistakeholder Process, Faud will be discussing what consumers and businesses need to consider when purchasing products and services and the current development of related standards and projects in Canada.

Please reach out on Twitter or LinkedIn to connect at the show. Hope to see you there.

Link to CES Session

 

 

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Apr
30
2018
Blockchain IoT ISO Security Standards

This past weekend, I was very fortunate to be the keynote speaker at the China-Canada IoT and Blockchain Innovation and Development Summit in Markham (Toronto). It was great to see so many attendees who are interested in IoT and Blockchain and the potential for how we might be able to address security and privacy in IoT.

With the announcement of the Canada China IoT and Blockhain Research Institute it will greatly help Canadian and China organizations who want to expand their reach for products/services in these regions and be able have a source for testing, evaluation and business development. We are proud to be part of this and we look forward to helping companies secure their IoT solutions.

As a proud member of SDChain, TwelveDot is looking forward to growing the SDChain network which is already at 120K users and counting. As we get closer to building the SDK’s and expanding our platform, trustworthiness is going to be key element of providing security and privacy to IoT product/service users globally.

As many of you have requested a copy of my presentation I am providing it here: SDChain Keynote_v1

 

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Apr
06
2018
Cyber Security Infrastructure IoT IPv6 ISO Secure By Design Secure Coding Uncategorised

This past week I was fortunate to be invited as a guest speaker for the 1st Internet Society meeting on IoT security. This meeting was well attended from government, private sector companies and academia. It was a means to get on the same page to issues at hand and how do we as users, developers and government secure the Internet and IoT.

The key issues at hand include:

1. Awareness to the issue of IoT Security for Canadian, not just individuals but organizations who want to deploy IoT technologies

2. What exists now from standards and best practice perspective and what approaches can be used

3. What can be done to ensure the next generation of these devices is not a source of another DDoS or other malware on the Internet.

As promised, I am including my presentation and mind map that was presented. Please feel free to share this as necessary, the more groups and individuals who are talking about this subject the better.

For more information check out ISOC here.

ISOC Ottawa_v1

IoT Attack Surface_MindMap

 

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Jun
10
2017
IoT IoT Malware Security

On June 20th, 2017, RISC will be held in Bangalore, India. It is a one day cyber security conference focused on issues around IoT security. Delegates will have the opportunity to attend a wide array of sessions to learn more security concepts and approaches to creating more secure IoT products and solutions.

Our CEO will giving a keynote presentation entitled “IoT Security – Preventing a Global Disaster”. While it sounds ominous it really focuses learning from the bad and what we can do as an industry to correct this before it becomes really dangerous.

Hope to you see you there.

 

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Feb
03
2017
Cyber Security IoT Security Sensors Smart City

I was asked to present at the Cyber Security 2017: Securing the Smart City of the Future conference which is taking place on February 27 – 28th in Ottawa. This is a Conference Board of Canada event and will be providing insights from the experts on smart cities, and the impact that they will have on urban life and business in the future. My presentation on Monday, February 27th (Plenary 3)  is called “Protecting the Smart City from Cyber Attack”. If you are working on an IoT or cyber security project, you should attend as there will be lots of good discussion and you will get an insight into the many risks of and considerations for the numerous aspects of a secure smart city.

Here is my discussion outline:

This session will discuss the approaches that must be considered by policy makers, technology companies, and city managers when assessing new technologies to be deployed as part of the smart city infrastructure. Cities do not want to be attacked nor have their devices used to attack other cities or foreign governments. It will take planning and foresight to reduce these risks. Standards are being developed that will help with both architecture aspects and how to assess the security and privacy risks.

Hope to you see you there and don’t forget to bring your questions!

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Jan
27
2017
IoT Secure By Design Security

Well it has been good start to our 6th year in business. We would like to thank all our customers and partners both old and new who are contributing to our success. Without you we do not exist and most importantly get to build stronger more secure companies and products for our clients.

I wanted to bring your attention that on Feb. 7th I will be in Toronto to give a presentation to CIA Plus. My topic will be about IoT Challenges and Issues and Standards. If your in the Toronto area this evening please drop by and join our open discussion on security and IoT.

I will be joined by on my panel with Sangam Manikkayam of Symantec, Bob Martin of Cisco and Victor Garcia of the Schulich School of Business. It will be very informative if you or your organization are considering IoT projects this year. I will provide the security and privacy aspects you should consider when planning or getting ready to launch a new IoT project. If you are able to attend more information can be found here: https://www.meetup.com/CIA-Plus-TO-the-business-of-Cloud-IoT-and-Analytics/events/236370120/

In the meantime, if you have any security questions or concerns for IoT please do not hesitate to reach out to us.

Updated: Feb. 13, 2017

I would to take this opportunity to thank all of those that came out on an icy night in Toronto to the CIA Plus Meet Up. My only regret was the lack of time to discuss all the topics in depth. We did have some good discussion after in the networking portion of the meeting and key topics of discussion worth mentioning are how does one who has no experience in security and privacy conduct threat modeling? The other is finding the resources necessary to support these projects.

While there is publicly available information on threat modeling, you may have need to find a cyber security partner or consultancy that has this expertise in these areas to help you with a project to teach you approach, tools and train your staff. They should be able to provide the baseline elements to implement these aspects in your organization including the after project support, should you required it.

The second point about security resources is a bit more difficult as the number of technical security experts for IoT is limited. If you are looking to hire a security resource(s) look for reference-able projects that include aspects of technical architectures in mobile, cloud and distributed systems. Experience in these key areas will provide the necessary basis to conduct risk assessments against IoT architectures.

As discussed please find the following:

1. A copy of the presentation
2. A IoT mind map
3. The threat poster

Also please find an article from reporter, Denis Deveau, who was in the audience. Thank-you Denise for the coverage of this event.

IoT-Threats-and-RisksCIA Plus – Feb 7 – Final SWG_5_IoT_Technologies_MindMap

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Jul
26
2016
Cyber Security IoT Sensors

OTTAWA, July 26, 2016 – TwelveDot Inc. (TwelveDot) is pleased to announce that it has been awarded another project within the Cyber Security Cooperation Program (CSCP) – a program launched on February 4, 2014 by the Government of Canada.

A five-year $1.5M initiative, the CSCP was developed in support of Canada’s Cyber Security Strategy. Its mission is to improve security of Canada’s vital cyber systems through grants and contributions to owners and operators, industrial and trade associations, academics and research organizations in support of eligible projects. The Government of Canada believes that securing the Internet of Things (IoT) is important and the CSCP is part of its efforts to do so.

The goal of this new project is to assess current IoT technologies and determine the threat and risk vectors for Internet of Things (IoT). TwelveDot, which has significant experience in IoT including its development of iBeacon solutions, Mach-12 and HiveSense, will create a test bed for evaluating IoT based technologies not just in the laboratory but also in production deployments. Included in this will be the creation of a monitoring technology specific to IoT deployments for identification of attacks on these networks. TwelveDot will produce a research report and guidance document for industry in both languages for publication in the spring of 2017.

IoT is growing at an exponential rate. According to Cisco, there will be 26.3 billion networked devices in 2020, up from 16.3 billion in 2015. In just four years time the number of devices connected to IP networks will be more than three times the global population.

Global Devices and Connections Growth

 

 

Source: Cisco VNI Global IP Traffic Forecast, 2015–2020

Furthermore, according to the International Data Corporation, the worldwide IoT market will grow from $655.8-billion (U.S.) in 2014 to $1.7-trillion in 2020 with a compound annual growth rate of 16.9 per cent. Despite this Canadian business appears to be behind the curve on security especially in IoT. A survey of top-level Canadian executives conducted on behalf of Microsoft Canada revealed that over half said they were completely unaware of IoT, 72 per cent were confused by it and 24 per cent said they had no sense of how it could impact their businesses. Consequently the need for education regarding IoT in Canada is great. TwelveDot is aiming to contribute to helping fill this need through this research project and bring some much needed education to securing these solutions.

“It is an honour to be awarded a second project under the CSCP program. Our first project was for mobile application security using TwelveDot’s proprietary GCAM methodology. We look forward to delivering on the mission of this project as well as helping to close the IoT gap in Canada by educating both businesses and citizens.” said Faud Khan, CEO and Chief Security Analyst, TwelveDot.

 

About TwelveDot Inc.

TwelveDot is a team of IT specialists that is obsessed with solving information and cyber security issues, in particular, the ones your company or organization faces. We help businesses of all sizes handle information and cyber security challenges and issues efficiently and cost-effectively. While organizations and companies struggle to ensure their data and operations are secure on a daily basis, many miss vital warning signs that something is amiss. This is where we come in as we are the canary in your cyber security coalmine. We are devoted to being your unbiased, objective and collaborative partner. We respect your privacy and will never share your sensitive information or keep your data. We want to help companies better understand their true data risks and how their teams can manage these risks effectively on a daily basis. We demystify the marketing speak of security solutions and focus on identifying and dealing with the risk and exposure elements.

 

For more information, please contact:

Faud Khan

Tel: 613.447.3393

Email: faud.khan@twelvedot.com

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