According to a recent press release, “The Global Cyber Alliance and its partners, today launched the Automated IoT Defence Ecosystem (AIDE), a ‘first-of-its-kind’ cybersecurity development platform for Internet of Things (IoT) products. AIDE will help small businesses, manufacturers, service providers and individuals to identify vulnerabilities, mitigate risks and secure IoT devices against the growing volume of threats to this interconnected environment. A press release issued by the GCA said a complementary resource to the AIDE platform is the GCA ProxyPot, a custom IoT honeypot solution, which is capable of replicating one IoT device across multiple IP addresses and physical locations to identify global attack risks quickly, efficiently and accurately. Together, the AIDE and ProxyPot platforms allow for organisations and individuals to have greater visibility into the types and scale of threats facing the IoT devices deployed into various environments, including smart cities and other smart ecosystems.”

Philip Reitinger, President and CEO of GCA, commented, “The number of Internet-connected devices has grown exponentially over the last decade and with it the cyber risk to companies, organisations and individuals deploying these devices on their network… The launch of the AIDE platform furthers GCA’s mission of providing scalable, implementable solutions to organisations of all sizes and budgets to secure their devices and reduce risk.”

The release adds, “The AIDE platform offers capabilities for data collection, analysis and automated defence on a scale not previously attained. As part of its first effort to leverage the AIDE and ProxyPot technologies, GCA is working with Attivo Networks to build a SCADA honeyfarm to collect threat intelligence on attacks targeting industrial control systems.”

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