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The Invisible Grid: Cybeats Secures the Software Supply Chain for Critical Infrastructure
Report #1 Recap In Sophic Capital’s SBOMs Away!, we discussed security and privacy issues related to software development and shared recent significant cybersecurity events that exploited software vulnerabilities. Sophic Capital also introduced the growing global...
SBOMs Away!
Why Software Supply Chain Security Has Become a Top Priority Problem Modern software constantly changes as new features are added, bugs are fixed, and vulnerabilities are patched. Most people don’t realize that modern software isn’t built from scratch—it’s assembled...
Cybersecurity Roundup – Part 2
Themes, Trends, and Plurilock's Strategic Position 2025 Trends: Proactive Defense and Strategic Opportunities As we move into 2025, the cybersecurity landscape continues to evolve at an unprecedented pace. The rapid advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), the...
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On October 26, 2017, GE Venture company Avitas Systems partnered with Kraken Robotics to develop subsea inspection solutions for the oil and gas industry. This a milestone for Kraken Robotics because for the past two years management has been communicating a search/recovery/inspection, subscription model called Robotics-as-a-Service (RaaS) for sea drones. Kicking Some Digital Ass in Las Vegas 99% of manufacturing machine data is trapped inside the machines. Real-time machine data is essentially non-existent because manufacturers fear security breaches in a networked machine environment. Unlocking this data via secure networks and allowing overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) analysis would weed out invisible and expensive inefficiencies. This issue was at the forefront of IIoT experts in the Connected Machines pavilion at Cisco Live, Cisco’s annual technology conference. We saw Cisco’s secure network solution for manufacturing environments, which was exhibited with partner MEMEX’s Manufacturing Operations Management System platform. Mass adoption of using real-time, machine data analytics to create business outcomes is beginning, and MEMEX is positioned to become the industry leader. Why You Need to Read this Report Learn how MEMEX Inc., a public company, and Cisco are addressing the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) market; We present a real use case of the Cisco/MEMEX relationship, and; Discover how big the long-term IIoT market opportunity could be – hint: not “billions” but “trillions”. Download Sophic Capital’s “Cisco and MEMEX Partner to Win the Secure IIoT Market” report HERE. Testing more VR platforms: Day three saw us return to the PlayStation VR booth to see if we could have a better gaming experience than Thursday’s London Heist experience. We also had a chance to demo the HTC Vive. To finish the day off we wandered over to the career fair to see the skills that gaming companies seek and got some opinions into when high-end gaming HMDs could become wireless. To read more, click HERE. Playing around with Virtual Reality: We spent our second day at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) queued for hours waiting to try high-end VR gaming platforms. More accurately, we wanted to see the content available for Oculus, PlayStation VR, and HTC Vive since we know their head-mounted devices (HMD) are now consumer-ready and ready to begin shipping in the coming weeks and months. Unfortunately, we couldn’t book an appointment with Valve to probe the platform; however, we have one today, and we’ll report our findings on Monday. To read more about our second day at GDC, click HERE. To watch Bullet Train, click HERE. Sophic Capital is at the 2016 Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco. This is our third consecutive GDC, and what a difference two years makes for the advancement of VR. Two years ago Oculus demoed the DK2, and people were blown away. That quickly resulted in Facebook buying the company. Last year new HMDs entered including HTC Vive and Sony’s Project Morpheus (now called “PlayStation VR” or “PSVR”). This is the year of content, which we have always said will drive VR adoption. Click HERE to read more. Click HERE to watch a video about the games coming to Oculus.
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