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M2Mi Joins the Industrial Internet Consortium to Enable Better Security, Privacy and Contextual Intelligence for Enterprise M2M and IoT(PR Web Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) NASA Research Park, Moffett Field, CA (PRWEB) October 31, 2014 Machine-to-Machine Intelligence (M2Mi) Corporation, provider of M2M Intelligence®, the essential platform for the M2M & Internet of Things economy today announced that M2Mi has joined the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC). The IIC is an open partnership to further development, adoption and wide-spread use of interconnected machines, intelligent analytics and people at work. M2Mi is an industry leader with over 8 years of experience helping organizations gain value from their connected devices. M2Mi's goal in joining the IIC is to leverage our expertise and help solve pressing security, privacy and IT/OT challenges that can hamper the growth of the IoT economy. M2Mi is a founding member of the OASIS MQTT standards group and chair of the security sub-committee. M2Mi is also a 2014 Gartner Cool Vendor for Managing IT/OT in a Digital Business. "Strong security measures are very important for the success of the Industrial Internet," said Dr. Richard Soley, Executive Director of the IIC. "We welcome M2Mi's expertise and input in IIC Security Working Group activities as they recommend and rollout guidelines for building systematic measures for Industrial Internet security." "Security, privacy, managing the IT/OT merge and converting device data to actionable intelligence are some of the major challenges that organizations currently face in generating true IoT value. The Industrial Internet Consortium is a great collaborative forum to help solve these pressing issues. We are pleased to join the IIC and look forward to working with the consortium members to help build a safer and more valuable IoT economy," says Geoff Brown, CEO, Machine-to-Machine Intelligence (M2Mi) Corporation. The M2M Intelligence® platform, through the use of secure Lockbox technologies and infrastructure automation, simplifies the process required to establish global telecom and device connectivity, cyber security, privacy and deployment of intelligent M2M & IoT solutions. Applications can focus on business logic, while the M2M Intelligence® platform provides the required secure middleware to rapidly build out complete offerings. About The Industrial Internet Consortium The Industrial Internet Consortium is an open membership organization formed to accelerate the development, adoption and wide-spread use of interconnected machines and devices, intelligent analytics and people at work. Founded by AT&T, Cisco, General Electric, IBM and Intel in March 2014, the IIC catalyzes and coordinates the priorities and enabling technologies of the Industrial Internet. For more information, please visit http://www.iiconsortium.org. About Machine-to-Machine Intelligence (M2Mi) Corporation Machine-to-Machine Intelligence (M2Mi) Corporation delivers M2M Intelligence®; the essential platform for the M2M & Internet of Things economy. M2Mi reduces the complexity of connecting, provisioning and automating M2M services, as well as securely integrating edge devices through network providers to the cloud data center, thus addressing requirements for both critical cyber-physical infrastructure protection and secure information exchange. Machine-to-Machine Intelligence (M2Mi) Corporation is headquartered at NASA Research Park, Silicon Valley. Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/m2mi-joins-industrial/internet-consortium-iic/prweb12290880.htm (c) 2014 PRWEB.COM Newswire |