Pat Romanski

Download Slide Deck: ▸ Here The security devil is always in the details of the attack: the ones you've endured, the ones you prepare yourself to fend off, and the ones that, you fear, will catch you completely unaware and defenseless. The Internet of Things (IoT) is nothing if not an endless proliferation of details. It's the vision of a world in which continuous Internet connectivity and addressability is embedded into a growing range of human artifacts, into the natural world, and even into our smartphones, appliances, and physical persons. In the IoT vision, every new "thing" - sensor, actuator, data source, data consumer, routing intermediary, etc., is a new security-relevant detail that stirs up a wide range of collateral security issues. In other words, every new networked IoT endpoint is a new potential attack vector or launching point that the baddies ca... (more)

Beacon Technology: Monetizing Proximity Intelligence | @ThingsExpo #Microservices

Monetizing Proximity Intelligence Beacon technology offers a new way for companies to deliver value to their customers by enabling micro-location based interaction at every physical touch point. This knowledge opens up a new playground for creating personalized services and inventing new experiences between a company and its customers, but how exactly can organizations monetize this? For the past two years we have heard about mobile notifications and messaging, but this has not taken off and could be considered spamming. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Alec McCullie, VP Internati... (more)

Chris Matthieu to Keynote at @ThingsExpo | #IoT #WebRTC #Microservices

SYS-CON Events announced today that Chris Matthieu, Director of IoT Engineering at Citrix and co-founder and CTO of Octoblu, will keynote at the 17th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on November 3-5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. His keynote "How We Built and Scaled an IoT Platform and Business" will focus on building an IoT platform and company.  He will provide a behind-the-scenes look at Octoblu’s platform, business, and pivots along the way (including the Citrix acquisition of Octoblu). Register FREE Before Friday! ▸ Here You... (more)

Kurento and WebRTC Business Models | @ThingsExpo #IoT #M2M #RTC #WebRTC

WebRTC Business Models Beyond Video Conferencing WebRTC services have already permeated corporate communications in the form of videoconferencing solutions. However, WebRTC has the potential of going beyond and catalyzing a new class of services providing more than calls with capabilities such as mass-scale real-time media broadcasting, enriched and augmented video, person-to-machine and machine-to-machine communications. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Luis Lopez, CEO of Kurento, will introduce the technologies required for implementing these ideas and some early experiments per... (more)

Open Source Cloud ‘Stackup’ at @CloudExpo Silicon Valley | #Cloud

There are many open source cloud platforms. MesosCon Europe was earlier this month, OpenStack Summit is happening in Tokyo this week. Cloud Foundry Summit Berlin is next week. KubeCon San Francisco (Kubernetes Conference) is the following week. And DockerCon Barcelona is the week after that. Open Source Cloud ‘Stackup,' CloudCamp, where adopters of Cloud Computing technologies exchange ideas, is being held on Tuesday, November 3, from 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm at 17th Cloud Expo, November 3-5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. CloudCamp will be led by Dave Nie... (more)