CV_JulyAug_2017

Trend Micro to Invest

$100m in Emerging Tech

Trend Micro has created a $100 mil-

lion global venture fund targeting startups

in emerging technology sectors, such

as IoT. In addition to capital, portfolio

startups will gain access to Trend Micro’s

technology and its channel of more than

28,000 partners.

Trend Micro said that working with start-

ups will allow it to unearth insights into new

business models, market gaps and skill

shortages. “These learnings will influence

Trend Micro’s cybersecurity solution plan-

ning across the company,” the firm said in

an announcement.

Establishing a separate venture capital

unit also provides Trend Micro “additional

freedom” to explore new areas of technol-

ogy “without disrupting core business re-

sources,” the company said.

Will AI be ‘Weaponized’?

A full 62% of security experts

believe that artificial intelligence

(AI) will be weaponized and

used for cyberattacks within the

next 12 months, according to

a survey by Cylance of infosec

experts at the recent Black Hat

USA conference.

“While AI may be the best

hope for slowing the tide of

cyberattacks and breaches,

it may also create more ad-

vanced attacker tactics in the

short-term,” said a Cylance

blog post on the survey.

While the majority of those

surveyed said that they felt there was a high possibility that AI

would be used offensively, 32% said that there wasn’t a possibil-

ity of that happening, and 6% said they didn’t know. It was not-

ed, however, that the potential use of AI as an offensive weapon

wouldn’t slow the use of AI as a defensive tool.

EMERGENT

The futuristic dream of the univer-

sal, invisible and always-on Internet

of Things (IoT) is one step closer,

says MetTel, which recently an-

nounced the first SIM that intelligently

roams to identify and automatically

and securely connect to the strongest

signal globally. MetTel says its IoT

Single SIM ensures the best

possible connectivity no matter

the device or location, chang-

ing the game for supply chain

complexity, retail issues, home

health care and other industry

challenges.

Leveraging the coverage of

four major U.S. and 650 world-

wide carriers, MetTel’s Single

SIM offers real-time data on-

session activity that provides a

current view of product status

and location on anything from a mo-

bile phone to a jet engine. It also ar-

chives the past 48 hours of sessions

for reference and analysis. Geo-fenc-

ing gives the MetTel IoT Single SIM

the ability to proactively self-report

when it has entered special zones or

reached its destination, so businesses

are making informed decisions with

always-on mobile tracking, engineer-

ing and analytics.

“The Single SIM is but one key part

of the holistic approach MetTel takes

to IoT,” said Max Silber, vice president

of mobility and IoT, MetTel. “With al-

ways-on connectivity that isn’t dictated

by device, carrier or location, this solu-

tion can effectively decrease mobility

costs for major organizations, increase

supply chain automation capabilities,

and bring telehealth connectivity and

deployment into rapid adoption.”

While IoT Single SIM currently

resides on a hardware chip, it utilizes

an eSIM-ready infrastructure. eSIM-

based technology changes the way

SIM profiles are managed, says Met-

Tel. Conceptually, an eSIM can host

multiple profiles and work

with all form factors, morph-

ing from one type of carrier

SIM to another, thereby mak-

ing it universal. Although the

eSIM has not yet arrived on

the market, similar capa-

bilities can be realized today

with the MetTel IoT Single

SIM, says the company. The

difference is that the eSIM’s

self-contained IMSI identity

marker allows it to autono-

mously shift forms while MetTel’s

version boasts unlimited IMSI in the

cloud, providing MetTel and its cli-

ents with greater control over the IoT

Single SIM’s transformations from

one carrier network to another.

MetTel Launches Auto-Connecting ‘IoT Single SIM’

Channel

Vision

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