Sad news- Intel drops Edison, Galileo, Joule, Curie

I had previously posted about some of Intel's efforts to get involved in the IoT and Maker communities with their own products such as the Edison, Galileo, Curie, and more.

At the recent DefCon conference I was chatting with the guy behind HackerBoxes and was sad to learn that Intel has recently dropped some of their efforts.  I took a look and found info that they are dropping production of the Edison, Galileo, Curie, and Joule products by the end of 2017 or mid 2018.

This is a bit disappointing.  I thought some of these had a lot of potential, and I think that if they haven't been as successful as they could have been that maybe Intel didn't do all they could to make these products successful.  I know Sparkfun had put out several items in support of the Edison.  I had hoped to see more published information on these items and there was a planned work on the Edison and Galileo that never came out.

As far as I can tell they are still supporting the Euclid product, but that's just not the same.

Does this end Intel's foray into this realm?  Hopefully not.

C.H.I.P. unboxing

Hopefully most are aware of C.H.I.P., the interesting $9 micro computer from the Next Thing Company.  They launched this with a Kickstarter campaign and have been shipping them out this month.

I finally got mine and took some pictures.

New in the Internet of Things

While I await my CHIP to arrive, I thought I'd note some of the other new items that have popped up in the last few months in terms of new boards for IoT.  I think most should be aware of these, but some may not be aware of all of these.

Resources for the Internet of Things Security

At the HackMiami Conference  on May 16, 2015, I did a presentation on an Introduction to Internet of Things Security.  The presentation is now up on YouTube.  I have the link below.

As a tie-in to the presentation, I am providing here links to the various resources that I covered in the presentation, along with others I didn't have the time to.  If you come across other items of interest, please add them to the comments.

ISACA's 2014 IT Risk/Reward Barometer

Recently, ISACA released their IT Risk/Reward Barometer, based on a survey they conducted.

They have a page at their site with the survey results and other information, along with several infographics.  I thought they were pretty interesting.

Security in the "Internet of Things"

During the recent round of IT Security/Hacker conferences in Las Vegas (Defcon, Black Hat, BSides), a variety of interesting security issues have been revealed in various "non-computer" devices that are networks.

Here is a high level overview of several:

• Hacking of the "Smart Home":  HERE  and HERE   and HERE
• Hacking of the "Smart Car":   HERE   and longer commentary on the issue HERE
• Hacking of the "Smart Toilet":   HERE  and HERE
• Hacking of a baby monitor:   HERE  and HERE  (Updated)
• Hacking of networked lightbulbs:  HERE

SANS' Securing the "Internet of Things" Summit

I recently learned that the SANS Institute, a leading IT Security training and certification organization, has a Call for Papers (CFP) for an upcoming one day workshop on securing the "Internet of Things".

The event is the Securing the Internet of Things Summit, being held on October 21st in San Fransisco.

The page has full info on the event, including the CFP.

The event sounds pretty good.  I'd love to be there, but most likely won't be able to.  I do hope that the papers presented will be available to others.  (say a conference report or the like).

Security of the Internet of Things

Have you heard about the "Internet of Things"?

I have, thanks to trying to keep up with the whole Maker/DYI area, especially with things like Arduino, Raspberry Pi, BeagleBoards, and the like.

The whole idea, from a techie standpoint is pretty cool.  All these little devices able to communicate with each other and to other devices like computers and the like, usually wirelessly (WiFi or IR or Bluetooth).  Neat.

But what about security?  Has anyone thought about that?

Everyone gets excited by the possibilities, but sometimes forgets about that.  Even me.  The whole thing seems cool and exciting, and security was furthest from my mind.

But it looks like others aren't ignoring that.  In my research into MDM vendors, I came across one vendor that has a broader focus then just mobile devices to include the "Internet of Things":  Mocana.  This is not an endorsement of them, but I find it interesting that they do have stuff covering the Internet of Things as well as mobile devices.  Am still looking over what they have, but others may also benefit by taking a look at their blog, their webinars, and reports in this area.

There are several book at Amazon on the Internet of Things.  The only one I have is the one from O'Reilly/Make:

Check it out.