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ie. ICT Industry related, Telecom & IT

internet evolution slide, by ETSI

The following “Internet evolution” drawing has been on the different slides in ETSI workshops. It can be found in slide 4 in the M2M architecture overview presentation. It nicely compares “Internet of content”, “Internet of services”, “Internet of people” and … Continue reading

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Privacy Impact Assessment

For Good Information Sources for Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA), please have a look at ico.org.uk’s PIA page and Guide Conducting privacy impact assessments code of practice. Steps Identify the need for a PIA Describe the information flows Identify the privacy … Continue reading

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Cloud Service Level Agreement Standardisation Guidelines, by C-SIG (europe)

Interesting document “Cloud SLA standardization guidelines” is available at the Digital Agenda for Europe site. The work has been done by the C-SIG (Cloud Select Industry Group) subgroup, and they are contributing this as input for the new standard ISO/IEC … Continue reading

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Publicly available ISO standards: security & privacy related

It is good to know that some freely available ISO standards are related to security and privacy (Reference: Publicly Available Standards). For example ISO 27000 and ISO 29100 are freely available. Security Management ISO 27000 Information security management systems – … Continue reading

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Report on Cybersecurity Black Market, by RAND and Juniper

RAND has published an interesting report on the cybersecurity black market. This report “Markets for Cybercrime Tools and Stolen Data” was sponsored by Juniper . (direct link to pdf). This report is good reading for any security professional, worth to … Continue reading

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OpenStack concepts via Ubuntu Cloud Live in VirtualBox

Ubuntu Cloud Live image is mentioned at Ubuntu’s site and instructions are given on how to boot the system from USB. This image is nowadays a little outdated (based on Essex release). For more serious experiments, please use more up-to-date … Continue reading

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M2M/IoT Sector Map, by Beecham Research

Beecham Research has created a very nice M2M Sector map. It has divided the industry into 9 service sectors. Please see their site for the original (bigger) picture, it is downloadable here.

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