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One of the differentiating risk factors for an IoT device is that its domain is in the physical world - an attacker may be able to physically interact with your device.

As a collection of engineers at Device Authority, many of us have an interest in hardware modding, and investigating devices for their security vulnerabilities in order to better protect them.

This blog will give a brief overview of IoT hacking, and some links to tools we've found useful.

When producing sample code for documentation, it can be easy to fall into the trap that what is written is "not production" and it can suffer from undergoing less scrutiny than code that is immediately destined for production systems.

It's always worth remembering that developers reading your sample code will likely (perhaps blindly) trust that a given example is the right way to do things.

When you write sample code and technical documentation, you are acting as a teacher to developers you may not even meet or speak to.

We recently came across an article on the 7 challenges of IoT software development – here’s our engineering team’s thoughts and quick responses:

1. Operating System Considerations

While more than 80% of embedded devices are running Linux, there are growing contenders in the marketplace. Windows 10 IoT has a growing following, and strong integration into the Azure ecosystem. Sometimes, a traditional operating system is not always a requirement: JavaME.

With yesterday's announcement about the 6.4 release of KeyScaler comes support for deployment within a Docker container instance.

Requested by a number of clients, the capability to run KeyScaler within this architecture brings significant deployment, cost and infrastructure support benefits to the platform.

The UK Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) announced last week that it is launching a consultation on how it can regulate industry to better secure IoT devices.

Today, April 9^th is officially IoT day, so we couldn’t miss the opportunity to highlight how far IoT has come over the years, a significant, disruptive force creating a transformational connected world with endless benefits for society, worldwide.

Operationalizing Trust for IoT

“If digital transformation is the rocket ship, trust has to be the fuel for that rocket ship” Zulfikar Ramzan, CTO, RSA Security.

I recently attended Embedded World conference in Nuremberg, Germany, alongside our partners MULTOS. It was a busy 3-day event, with all the main players there from MCU Suppliers, Distributors, Technology vendors and Service suppliers.

Smart Medical Devices are the Wave of the Future

Smart medical devices are increasingly part of how specialized treatment is delivered to patients today. These devices are revolutionizing medicine, making procedures more accessible and enabling physicians to better monitor how patients respond.