Blog posts tagged
“white paper”

7 posts

Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
1 September 2021

Cybersecurity with Ubuntu

Article Cloud and server

The cybersecurity state of affairs can be described as too complex today. There is an enormous number of threats endangering sensitive data for the average IT team to cope with. Threats ranging from exposure of physical assets stored in an office, to “social engineering” attacks resulting in unauthorized access, or even...

Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
1 September 2021

James Nunns
10 November 2018

Ubuntu Core and Kura: A framework for IoT gateways

Article Internet of Things

The Linux distribution model, whilst established and well understood for computing, has some limitations when it comes to IoT edge gateway devices. Due to often being located in remote or hard to access areas, there is a greater demand for a system that offers both high levels of robustness and security. With the IoT gateway

James Nunns
10 November 2018

Canonical
26 October 2018

Low latency and real-time kernels for telco and NFV

White paper Cloud and server

The kernel is the fundamental core of a computer operating system. It is the first program to load, and it manages all core functions of the computer. With the expanding role of the Linux kernel in systems today, Canonical is often asked to provide leadership and support for different offerings for many purposes....

Canonical
26 October 2018

Guest
28 March 2017

Battlestar solution

Article Internet of Things

This is a guest post by Peter Kirwan, technology journalist. If you would like to contribute a post, please contact ubuntu-devices@canonical.com Forecasts suggest that by 2020, 20bn to 30bn IoT devices will be connected to networks worldwide. Almost certainly, the tactics employed by Colonel Saul Tigh in this clip from...

Guest
28 March 2017

Thibaut Rouffineau
20 March 2017

Three flaws at the heart of IoT security

Article Internet of Things

This blog has been syndicated from SCMagazine UK, contributed by Thibaut Rouffineau – head of devices marketing. According to the latest estimates by Gartner, the total number of connected devices will reach 6.4 billion by the end of this year. From connected homes, to autonomous vehicles, to futuristic smartdust, the...

Thibaut Rouffineau
20 March 2017

Canonical
7 February 2017

Who should bear the cost of IoT security: consumers or vendors?

Article Internet of Things

Anyone using the internet in Europe and the US on 21st October last year experienced what economists call an externality. It arrived in the form of a massive 1.2 Tbps DDoS attack on Dyn, a US-based internet infrastructure company. This, in turn, triggered outages at multiple sites – including PayPal, Twitter, Amazon and...

Canonical
7 February 2017

Canonical
30 January 2017

48% of people unaware their IoT devices pose a security threat

Article Internet of Things

LONDON, U.K. – 30 January, 2017 – Nearly half (48%) of citizens remain unaware that their connected devices could be infiltrated and used to conduct a cyber attack. That’s according to a new IoT security whitepaper which was published today by Canonical – the makers of Ubuntu. The report, which includes research from...

Canonical
30 January 2017