According to a new press release, “Sixgill, LLC, the leader in sensor data services for governing Internet of Everything (IoE) assets, today unveiled its breakthrough blockchain or distributed ledger-based solution for sensor network data integrity. Sixgill Integrity is a ledger-agnostic solution and is designed from the ground up to solve the fundamental need for an end-to-end, real-time sensor data authenticity system. With Integrity, organizations are assured that their emitted data, transmitted data, ingested data, and acted-upon data are the same.”
The release goes on, “Sixgill is taking a fresh approach to fundamental industry challenges of data security and authenticity: (1) Cloud processing multiplies intrusion vulnerabilities in complex networks. Proliferation of connected devices can vastly expand system surface area for attack opportunities. And hardware vulnerabilities such as Meltdown and Spectre compound cloud systems’ susceptibility to intrusion and malfunction. Distributed Ledger Technology can protect data when security fails. (2) Sensor data streams can be tampered with, hacked or changed without an organization ever knowing, or not knowing soon enough to prevent serious error. The immutable nature of Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) can be applied to ensure information integrity, veracity and auditability. (3) Until now, blockchain foundations have been too slow and encumbered to achieve critical, real-time operations performance. Sixgill Integrity applies a hybrid architecture to combine the immutability of DLT with the high performance of modern, distributed database technologies.”
The release adds, “As the volume and velocity of sensor data traversing complex networks exponentially grows, system vulnerabilities become increasingly consequential. Current and future automated sensor data networks face potentially disastrous malfunctions, if transmitted data is compromised and wrongly trusted. Already, Thales reports that 71% of enterprises are now gathering data for IoT initiatives while security remains a major concern and impediment to their IoT deployments.”
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