A huge industry shift towards hybrid cloud environments is creating significant security and performance issues for CIOs & CISOs. Achieving LAN-like security and real-time performance for applications that span private and Public Clouds requires a new, grounds-up architecture. Kaazing, creator of the widely-adopted WebSocket standard, offers a range of enterprise infrastructure products with unmatched security, performance and real-time capabilities, to seamlessly enable next generation private and hybrid cloud deployments for financial, logistics and retail applications. Kaazing products span open-source, commercial software gateways and IaaS products on AWS, Azure and Rackspace cloud marketplaces. WebSocket demand has been increasing exponentially during the last 2 years, which is fueling increased bookings, billings and pipeline momentum for Kaazing, with an estimated $500M addressable market by 2018.

GlobalSign is the leading provider of trusted identity and security solutions enabling businesses, large enterprises, cloud service providers and IoT innovators around the world to secure online communications, manage millions of verified digital identities and automate Authentication and Encryption. Its high-scale PKI and identity and access management (IAM) solutions support the billions of services, devices, people and things comprising the Internet of Everything (IoE). The company has offices in the Americas, Europe and Asia.

Founded in 2003, KORE is the world’s largest managed network services provider specializing in Internet of Things (IoT) and Machine to Machine (M2M) markets. KORE provides the critical wireless connectivity empowering application, hardware and wireless operator partners to rapidly bring new IoT and M2M innovations to market, with millions of active on-network units in more than 180 countries. KORE delivers choice, reliability and global native coverage through multi-carrier and Tier 1 carrier cellular and satellite network services – including LTE, GSM and CDMA - as well as advanced applications to easily manage IoT connected devices. KORE’s recent acquisition of Wyless makes the company one of the six largest providers of M2M/IoT services globally, inclusive of carriers. Together, the combined company connects over 6-million devices around the world with leading technology, providing guaranteed costs, visibility and control of mission critical applications.

Waterfall Security Solutions is the global leader in industrial cybersecurity technology. Waterfall products, based on its innovative unidirectional security gateway technology, represent an evolutionary alternative to firewalls. The company's growing list of customers include national infrastructures,power plants, on/off-shore platforms, refineries, manufacturing plants, utility companies plus many more. Deployed throughout North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia, Waterfall products support the widest range of leading industrial remote monitoring platforms, applications, databases and protocols.

Herow is a contextual marketing platform for mobile applications.

Apio is an Italian software company working in the ICT field that creates applications for the Internet of Things (IoT). Year founded: 2014

Zscaler is revolutionizing internet security with the industry’s first Security as a Service platform. As the most innovative firm in the $35 billion security market, Zscaler is used by more than 5,000 leading organizations, including 50 of the Fortune 500. Zscaler ensures that more than 13 million users worldwide are protected against cyber attacks and data breaches while staying fully compliant with corporate and regulatory policies.

As an established M2M service provider, KORE delivers a single business management platform that can effectively control costs and increase operational efficiencies for clients in a number of industries, such as healthcare, fleet Tracking, point of sale, security, logistics, industrial monitoring and environmental services.

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT) promises revolutionary improvements in the efficiency of industrial operations, manufacturing platforms, transportation systems, utilities and others. However, for these benefits to be realized, they require the massive deployment of connected devices that gather and communicate data, thereby increasing cybersecurity attack surfaces dramatically, and opening paths for attackers to enter industrial networks. Just by connecting to the cloud, without the addition of the devices and sensors related to the IIOT, increases the vulnerabilities open to cyberattacks on industrial sites from the cloud. Another challenge to overcome prior to widespread adoption of IIOT is the multitude of different protocols and applications used by industrial systems in contrast to the typical “cloud –friendly” IT systems. To overcome both challenges, Waterfall offers the Unidirectional CloudConnect, an innovative solution based on Waterfall’s market-leading Unidirectional Gateway technology. The CloudConnect solution utilizes unidirectional security technology to enable safe and reliable IT/OT integration. Providing hardware-enforced protection, the technology allows data to flow out of industrial networks, without any possibility of attacks getting inside, and replicating data collected from the industrial devices and systems to the outside. Waterfall’s CloudConnect uses Unidirectional Gateway technology to gather data from industrial sources such as historians, Industrial Control Systems, OPC servers, and industrial devices. CloudConnect converts that data into a unified cloud-friendly format, such as XML files, relational databases, publish/subscribe protocols, or SOAP web services. CloudConnect transmits the unified data securely out of the site and into the industrial cloud. CloudConnect’s foundational Unidirectional Gateway technologies ensure seamless connectivity with both industrial and cloud systems, and provide absolute protection from network threats that are fundamental to Internet-exposed networks and systems.

Herow is a one-stop contextual marketing platform that allows apps to maximize engagement with their users. It uses hyper-precise location technology and machine-learning algorithms to provide mobile applications with true user context - a combination of location, behavior, and surroundings.

Apio is an open-source platform for the Internet of Things (IoT), which lets makers and designers create their own smart systems and connected objects in a matter of minutes. Apio provides a multi-protocol communications, through a graphical interface. This allows interaction with the user through smartphones, tablets, laptops and computers in general. Apio arises finally as a gateway between the network objects and the outside world of the internet, allowing remote access.

Zscaler is a Gartner Magic Quadrant leader for Secure Web Gateways and delivers a safe and productive internet experience for every user, from any device and from any location—100% in the cloud. With its multi-tenant, Distributed Cloud security platform, Zscaler effectively moves security into the internet backbone, operating in more than 100 data centers around the world and enabling organizations to fully leverage the promise of cloud and mobile computing with unparalleled and uncompromising protection and performance. Zscaler delivers unified, carrier-grade internet security, next generation firewall, web security, sandboxing/advanced persistent threat (APT) protection, data loss prevention, SSL decryption, traffic shaping, policy management and threat intelligence—all without the need for On-Premise hardware, appliances or software.

BP, Teias PMUM, Tibco, Informatica, ITRS, Oracle, Intel, Cisco, Deloitte, Ericsson, Google, Qualcomm, Siemens, Mathworks, KRONOS, SapientNitro, McAfee, Bechtel, Roy Morgan Research

Power Plants, Oil&Gas, Water and Waste Management Facilities, Manufacturing Plants, Rails Systems, IIOT systems, Chemical Plants, Pharmaceuticals, Aviation and Airports, Automotive, Smart Buildings

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