NEWS
Booz Allen Hamilton IoT Field Guide
recommended for regional CSOs
Dr Raymond Khoury, Executive Vice President and Digital Practice Lead
at Booz Allen Hamilton, MENA.
The Internet of Things IoT continues to gain
a strong footing in the GCC across different
sectors ranging from manufacturing and
transportation to energy. The vulnerability
of IoT to external cyber threats remains high
– in fact even higher than traditional IT – a
Booz Allen Hamilton report released in 2017,
has highlighted.
The Booz Allen Hamilton IoT Field Guide
also states that industries are moving to
IoT at a pace that is far greater than the
ability to secure it. Traditional IT systems
are generally self-contained and easy to
protect. IoT, on the other hand, connects
systems with tens of thousands of sensors
Danny Karam, Vice President and Digital Life Platform Lead at Booz Allen
Hamilton MENA.
and other devices around the world,
resulting in a much higher variety and
volume of potential threat.
Companies can probably save money
by building IoT systems with less-than-
secure parts and materials. But if they get
hacked, the financial cost of reputational
harm – including lawsuits, or regulatory
penalties – could make it much worse for
them. If organisations are to succeed with
IoT, security has to be deeply embedded
in their DNA. This involves a close,
careful, and systematic examination of all
potential weak points. Booz Allen Hamilton
has identified that organisations with the
best IoT security are proactive; they use
real-time threat-assessment data and the
latest advances in analytics to spot hidden
IoT attacks.
The IoT Field Guide includes a
Resource Prioritisation Model that can
help organisations mitigate and contain
any risks. The model contains three
elements: the technical risk assessment,
the potential impact of an attack on
the business and mitigation strategies.
The comprehensive model ultimately
empowers an organisation’s leaders and
stakeholders to make effective IoT security
investment decisions.
Etisalat Digital partners with Cars Taxi to
implement automotive surveillance solutions
Etisalat Digital announced its partnership with Cars Taxi to
implement smart surveillance solutions and analytics across its fleet
of 2,180 taxis in Dubai enabling them to manage and conduct real-
time monitoring of all the taxis bringing in efficiency and improving
customer experience and safety.
This end-to-end automotive surveillance solution is implemented
in compliance with RTA’s Road and Transport Authority directive to
deploy CCTV cameras in taxis in order to enhance customer safety.
In addition to Etisalat’s M2M connectivity, the solution makes use
of Etisalat Digital’s state-of-the-art Internet of Things platforms and
supported by latest IOT Command Center.
Salvador Anglada, Chief Business Officer, Etisalat said: “We are
proud to be associated with Cars Taxi on this prestigious project
as one of the key initiatives that contributes to digitising the
public transport industry. I would like to congratulate RTA for such
initiatives that will enhance customer experience, improve safety
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and provide operational visibility in the management of the public
transport system. This is just the beginning of this relationship as we
plan to further strengthen our automotive portfolio to enable digital
transformation of the public transportation industry.”
The solution makes use of Etisalat Digital’s Internet of Things platform
and supported by latest IOT Command Center.
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