On December 4th, the President of the U.S. signed the IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2020, which directs the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to create standards and guidelines on the use and management of internet of things devices by federal agencies and to develop guidance on vulnerability disclosure and the resolution of disclosed vulnerabilities…

ICS-CERT (Industrial Control System – Computer Emergency Response Team) is part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Recently CERT issued two Advisories concerning TCP/IP implementation flaws that have existed for years, perhaps decades and are now being found in embedded systems …

IWL today announced a new addition to its family of network test suites: the IWL MQTT Test Suite. Cloud platform providers using MQTT can enhance their solutions to help clients test their apps before launching. IoT implementers can test their apps and devices with a high quality, commercial test suite in their lab or in the cloud …

Have you thought about how you will test the performance of IoT apps and drones? Our new video demonstrates performance testing of an IOT application controlling the ESP8266 Microcomputer mounted on a drone! As you might expect, as the drone flies further away from the wireless base station, performance degrades. So how can you emulate that in your test lab? …

The Building Automation and Control network (BACnet) protocol defines a network communication standard for building control systems to communicate. Before deploying a new BACnet-enabled control unit in a BACnet/IP network, it would be helpful to verify that the new control unit can handle the full range of adverse network conditions that are likely to occur …

As people become increasingly reliant on the Internet of Things and cloud computing, it becomes even more important to ensure that applications work as intended. There are many factors that can affect an app’s performance, including service priority, latency and bandwidth. If an app is going to fail, developers need to know about the failure before deployment — not when users post negative comments about it on their social media pages …

NTIA has published a Notice for Public comment that is titled “The Benefits, Challenges, and Potential Roles for the Government in Fostering the Advancement of the Internet of Things”. This could become ICANN-2, bigger, longer, and uncut; and with a much greater impact on the future direction of the internet.

However, my thoughts on this go well beyond the possibility of another ICANN …