From: Computer Business Review
IBM is planning to acquire the US-based consulting firm Promontory Financial Group in order to transform regulatory compliance with its Watson cognitive computing platform.
Promontory advises clients on several financial services matters, including regulatory issues, compliance, risk management, liquidity, restructuring, and cyber security.
From: Bloomberg Technology
Computer systems at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration are riddled with weaknesses that make confidential, personal health information vulnerable to potential hackers, a government watchdog said.
A review of the FDA’s online information systems found more than 80 weaknesses including a lack of cybersecurity firewalls, according to the Government Accountability Office, Congress’s investigative arm.
From: EE | Times
Junko Yoshida
PARIS — It’s been a week since the Department of Transportation unveiled its ground-breaking policy on autonomous cars. Pretty soon, we expect reality to start sinking in among the auto industry experts who are presumably digesting the DoT’s 116-page document.
There are still 50-some odd days to file comments on the new rules.
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From: EE Times
Rich Quinnell
SEATTLE: The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) has released the initial version of its Security Framework for industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) development. The Framework, an adjunct to the IIoT Reference Architecture the Consortium released last year, seeks to initiate a process that will result in broad industry consensus on how to secure IIoT systems. The goal is to ensure that security is a fundamental part of an IIoT system’s architecture, not simply bolted on, and covers the system end-to-end including endpoint devices and the links between system elements.
From: Inside Counsel
