Last week, California-based blockchain firm
Xage Security announced it was awarded a security contract by the U.S. Air Force (USAF) for the U.S. Department of Defence (DoD). Xage focuses on Industrial IoT (IIoT), ensuring the security of IoT and other devices.
The nature of IIoT and military installation or battlefields is they can involve many thousands of devices, including sensors. Because there are so many devices and they are invariably remote in the field, the attack surface is much larger than an internal network.
It’s necessary to prevent anyone from adding unauthorized devices to the network and to detect whether installations have been tampered with.
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