Open Password – Wednesday, January 19, 2022
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IT forecasts – IT Forecasts – IT Maturity Processes – Run to the Cloud – Business Critical Applications – Remote Work – Micro Focus – Pandemic – Julian Fish – Digital Transformation – Digital First Strategy – Cloud Shifts – Ed Airey – COBOL Solutions
Security Predictions 2022 – Data Protection – Digital Communication – Embedded Software – Deep Fakes – Internet of Things -Tamir Bechor – CYMOTIVE Technologies – Cybercriminals – Partnerships – Digital Trust – Cloud – Helmut Semmelmayer – tenfold Software – Hybrid Work Environments – Pandemic – Cloud Services – Home Office – Automated Solutions – User and Permission Management Software – Philippe Kubinga – Axis Communications – Zero Trust Networks – Digital Identity – Video Authentication – Standards – Gerhard Zehethofer – Forge Rock – Passwordless Authentication – Family Accounts – Pay TV – Digital Wallet – Phil Leatham – YesWeHack Germany – Citizen Services – Cloud Security – Bug Fixes
Sensor-based Internet of Things – Health protection – Corona pandemic – Jan Bose – Alpha-Omega Technology – CO2 sensors – Climate protection – Infection protection – Wireless technologies – Chip shortage – Wireless standards – Energy consumption – Federal Environment Agency – LoRaWan – Flood warning systems – Project Carbdown – Low Power Wide Area Network – Narrowband IoT – Datacake – Power BI – Microsoft – The Things Stack – Amazon Web Service
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IT forecasts 2022
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IT general
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Security forecasts
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“Internet of Things” forecasts
IT predictions 2022 (1)
IT in general
IT maturation processes are progressing,
the move to the cloud, critical applications are becoming available remotely
( Micro Focus) The pandemic has made clear how important it is for companies to be flexible, decisive and well-positioned digitally. Consolidations and transformation of entire industries will characterize the next year. Three trends:
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- Maturity processes in corporate IT are progressing
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“In 2022, companies around the world will gradually recover from the cuts caused by the corona pandemic. The role of IT is becoming more important than ever before: It has no longer just had a supporting function; rather, IT and the commercial area are increasingly merging. In business, the alignment of Agile, DevOps (culture of collaboration between software development and IT operations) and Value Stream Management will redefine the interaction between demand and supply, eliminate historical communication limitations, promote organizational alignment and value-oriented discussions about investments , prioritization and execution approaches advanced. A new way of thinking is required. Agile and DevOps practices will become established as de facto standards. Continuous integration and delivery are expected.”
Julian Fish, Director of Product Management | Micro Focus
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- The run on the cloud continues
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“In 2022, it will become even more urgent for many companies to accelerate their digital transformation strategy. The last 18 months have been a difficult lesson for many IT departments that have not yet fully transitioned to a digital-first strategy. We are seeing greater momentum toward cloud-based initiatives among large enterprises whose core business applications are written in COBOL or run on mainframes. We expect to see even larger workloads moving to popular cloud providers’ platforms throughout the year, setting the stage for the next generation of delivery and modernization of core business applications.”
Ed Airey, Product Marketing Director, COBOL Solutions | Micro Focus
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- Critical applications also become available remotely
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“Remote work will remain an essential part of the business world even after we finally emerge from the pandemic. For companies, this means that employees also need remote access to business-critical applications – regardless of where they are. If employees are to access critical resources from private, potentially insecure networks, security controls and identity and access management policies must be redesigned. This requires IT departments to have a complete overview.”
Stan Wisseman, Chief Security Strategist | Micro Focus
IT predictions 2022 (1)
Security predictions 2022
What lies ahead for companies and consumers next year? What steps should be taken currently? Experts give their assessments in the areas of data protection, digital communication, embedded software and deep fakes.
New vulnerabilities in the Internet of Things can only be
addressed across sectors, on a non-profit basis and with government help.
By Dr. Tamir Bechor, co-founder
of CYMOTIVE Technologies
Tamir Bechor
“In the future, more and more everyday objects, such as cars, will contain embedded software to record their internal functional state and interact with the external environment. As a result, new vulnerabilities are emerging at a rapid pace in the Internet of Things, which is attracting more and more cyber criminals. This poses high risks for the security and privacy of consumers.
Cybersecurity can no longer be an internal matter. Forward-thinking companies differentiate their brands by leveraging effective partnerships. The resulting associations should work across sectors, non-profit organizations and with government support to identify incidents and respond appropriately. In public, they make a clear commitment to the importance of building and maintaining digital trust.”
From remote work to the new normal:
information security in the cloud remains problematic.
By Helmut Semmelmayer, Senior Manager Channel Sales, tenfold Software GmbH
Helmut Semmelmayer
“Securing hybrid working environments will remain problematic in 2022. The pandemic has boosted the use of cloud services in the last two years. Many companies were suddenly forced to find solutions to enable continued working together and mutual exchange //88 despite extensive home office regulations. It is understandable that issues of security and data protection initially take a back seat in this extraordinary situation. However, it would be fatal to ignore them in the long term, especially since the threat situation from ransomware & Co. has increased recently.
This makes it all the more important to regain an overview of shared data and newly created access as quickly as possible. To securely manage hybrid work environments, automated solutions are essential. Otherwise, maintaining cloud services and on-premises systems in parallel creates chaos and security gaps. User and permission management software can ensure that sensitive data in the cloud is protected from unauthorized access.”
Pro Zero Trust Networks
and Authentication of Videos.
By Philippe Kubinga, Regional Director Middle Europe, Axis Communications
Philippe Kubinga
“I see two major security trends for this year, one being the development of zero trust networks. Although these have been running for a few years, they have become extremely widespread in 2021. Flexible ways of working mean more corporate devices are connected to the public internet than ever before. This means that the security profile of every device and application must be reassessed with a new network connection. This has significant effects on video surveillance. Signed firmware, regular software updates, secure booting, data encryption and a secured digital identity go from ‘nice-to-haves’ to ‘must-haves’.
The second trend is stronger authentication of video material. The authenticity of video material is becoming increasingly difficult to determine due to increasingly sophisticated manipulations and deep fakes. A video stream absolutely requires a digital signature at the time of recording, which provides proof that the video was recorded by a specific camera and has not been changed since then. The security industry should take initiative this year to standardize how to ensure the authenticity of video material.”
Passwordless authentication and the digital wallet
are on the rise.
By Gerhard Zehethofer, Vice President IoT & Technology Partnerships, Forge Rock
Gerhard Zehethofer
“In the area of passwordless authentication, there will be exciting developments in 2022. The first standards and guidelines will be introduced that will completely replace the storage and sharing of passwords. The growing use of passwordless authentication methods is giving rise to new challenges. For example, logging in via a password , which is used by several people in the same household, is no longer possible. Family accounts are therefore required with individual access for each family member. Service providers, for example pay TV, are required to offer a solution here.
Another point that we would not have expected a year ago is the widespread use of digital vaccination passports. Given the need to act quickly during the pandemic, citizens were faced with a fait accompli when it came to the issue of digital storage of personal data. In our eyes, this approach brings about a paradigm shift. This also applies to institutions in which personal data plays a role.
With the help of the latest developments in the areas of machine learning and artificial intelligence, the digital wallet will increasingly replace carrying real documents in Germany too.”
Agile methods and continuous checks
for cloud security.
By Phil Leatham, Senior Account Executive, YesWeHack Germany
Phil Leatham
“Corona has accelerated the development of a virtual world. After eCommerce and hybrid working models, citizen services will follow suit in terms of digitalization in 2022. And everyone relies on the cloud, which is unbeatable in terms of scalability and security. But cloud security isn’t everything. Applications based on the cloud must also be secure. The special challenges associated with this are:
- Applications need to be as open as possible to enable access from anywhere. However, this also makes them more vulnerable to hackers, who are both increasingly globally networked and locally active.
- Release cycles of six months or longer, each with a one-off penetration test, are outdated. New features or bug fixes must be released quickly and continuously reviewed.
Companies and municipalities that rely on agile methods for vulnerability management and external partners are well positioned for 2022.”
IT forecasts:
Trends IoT 2022
More health and climate protection
through sensor-based “Internet of Things”
By Jan Bose, CEO Alpha-Omega Technology GmbH
Jan Bose
The sensor-based Internet of Things is arriving in people’s everyday lives. The increasing spread is bringing user-friendly solutions and data analytics into focus. Delivery bottlenecks are slowing down development.
My company sees three trends for sensor-based IoT in the coming year: CO2 sensors are becoming more and more popular. Because they can make an important contribution to current challenges such as climate and infection protection. This means that IoT is becoming part of everyday life for the general public. A combination of different wireless technologies such as LoRaWAN and NB-IoT enables the construction of networks for numerous use cases. As more and more sensors collect more and more data in more and more areas of life, topics such as user-friendly platforms and data analytics are coming into focus. The current chip shortage is driving up prices and could slow the spread of IoT.
Interest in wireless standards for data communication in the Internet of Things (IoT) has been increasing for years. Private energy consumption should be analyzed and reduced in order to achieve climate goals. As a result, municipal utilities and housing companies are increasingly using intelligent measuring devices. Business and industry are also increasingly switching to smart recording, regardless of legal requirements. But sensor-based IoT is also finding more and more friends beyond energy management.
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Trend 1: LPWAN sensors support health and climate protection.
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The sensor-based IoT is being used more and more frequently for health and climate protection measures and is thus becoming part of everyday life. With the corona pandemic and the SARS-CoV-2 occupational health and safety regulations, the issue of air quality has come to the attention of the general public. Since last summer, employers have been required to monitor air quality by measuring CO2. Because the level of oxygen levels affects whether people become infected with influenza or Covid-19. Sensors monitor the air in classrooms, open-plan offices or production facilities and report when specified limit values are reached. According to the Federal Environment Agency, concentrations of more than 1,000 ppm CO2 in the indoor air should generally be treated as abnormal; from a concentration of 2,000 ppm the value is considered unacceptable. Many areas of our society such as gastronomy or culture remain open despite high numbers of infections. The number of people in a closed room has a direct influence on the risk of infection. Implementing the requirements for the necessary infection protection requires additional personnel for entrance controls and is cost-intensive. LoRaWAN can provide a solution without collecting personal data: infrared light barriers and personal counters provide anonymous information about the occupancy of shops, restaurants or meeting rooms. An IoT based on sensors can also help with monitoring pollutants in workshops.
Of course, other values can be measured such as temperature, soil moisture or water levels. In this way, the sensor-based IoT supports the management of climate impacts: if the forest floor is monitored with soil moisture sensors, the data can warn of forest fires in good time. And water level sensors will play a role in flood warning systems in the future. The use of smart sensors is no longer a dream of the future for active climate protection: this is proven by innovative climate protection projects such as the “Project Carbdown” of the Carbon Drawdown Initiative. The initiators want to bind CO2 using rock dust on arable land. A sensor-based LoRaWAN-IoT measures the absorbed CO2. Sensors record the data underground at different soil depths.
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Trend 2: Combine radio standards.
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Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) radio standards such as Long Range Wide Area Network, LoRaWAN for short, or Narrowband IoT, NB-IoT for short, are suitable for transmitting the measured values to a server for further evaluation in accordance with data protection regulations. They can transmit small amounts of data over long distances with low power consumption. The combination of several LPWAN technologies is a trend: so far, the focus has mostly been on the question of which is the best wireless standard for a sensor-based IoT. But every solution has advantages and disadvantages. If you know the differences and combine them cleverly, you can get more out of your networked sensors and create potential for savings, maintenance or hazard prevention. The possible uses range from facility management to smart agricultural operations to smart cities. An example: NB-IoT has similar properties to LoRaWAN, but there is an important difference. NB-IoT uses the existing network of the major German mobile phone providers and can therefore be operated almost anywhere. This means that NB-IoT can step in well in locations that LoRaWAN does not cover because setting up additional gateways is not practical – for example in impassable terrain, in remote properties or with very thick basement walls.
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Trend 3: Using data potential with data analytics:
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As sensor-based IoT becomes more widespread, interest in solutions for analyzing, dynamically visualizing and long-term storage of the collected data is also growing. In addition to easy-to-use platforms such as Datacake, where you can create dashboards yourself without programming, special solutions will increasingly be offered in the future with which you can carry out a specific task well. This can be the control of street lighting or facility management.
Business analysis services such as Microsoft’s Power BI are also seeing increasing demand. They help to automatically process large amounts of complex data from different sources. The major providers offer powerful services in the areas of data analytics and data insights. The network server “The Things Stack” leads users directly to Amazon Web Service (AWS), where “The Things Stack AWS Launcher” offers a simple solution. Anyone who wants professional business applications that can be integrated into the existing software infrastructure will take a look at the Microsoft Cloud.
The IoT Edge platform BITMOTECOsystem uses a large number of interfaces, internal database, analysis tools and visualization software to ensure that even companies with little know-how can use IoT effectively and that sensor data is available throughout the entire company network. “The integration of sensors and easy-to-use IoT platforms such as BITMOTECOsystem into the ongoing production process of medium-sized companies opens up enormous potential,” says Jan Bose, Managing Director of Alpha-Omega Technology GmbH. “The platforms can take on many tasks such as filling level monitoring and thus provide timely alarms to avoid production downtimes. In the long term, data can also be collected. Based on this, the platform can send an automatic message to purchasing either via an alarm when the limit is exceeded or about the average consumption. This means they can place a new order in a timely manner, avoid excess stock and save space and resources.”
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Delivery bottlenecks lead to higher prices.
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The chip shortage will persist next year. It not only affects the auto industry, but also affects the availability of IoT sensors. The consequences of the bottlenecks are noticeable price increases. “Delivery bottlenecks may continue to occur, as they did in 2021. We are trying to cushion the situation and are in close contact with our customers, for example to recommend alternative products. For time-critical projects, we look for solutions and try to find ways forward. By building a new company headquarters in Schimberg, Thuringia, we will soon have a significantly larger warehouse for our products and will therefore be able to respond better to bottlenecks in the IoT shop in the future,” says Jan Bose.
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