KUDELSKI SA Kudelski and naxoo Extend Long-Standing Media Security
Partnership to Protect naxoo's LoRaWAN IoT Network
- Kudelski has been a strategic security partner to naxoo for more than 20 years, providing multiple pay-TV revenue protection technologies and services
- naxoo has launched its Sherpa IoT network, based on LoRaWAN technology, seeking to become a key provider to Lake Geneva-area Smart City players
- Kudelski IoT Labs will provide important threat assessment and IoT device security assessment services to naxoo as part of the expanding partnership. The partnership is the first step toward the creation of a state-of-the art secure IoT network in Switzerland
Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland, Phoenix (AZ), USA, Geneva, Switzerland - November 11st, 2020 - The Kudelski Group (SIX: KUD.S), the world leader in digital security and IoT solutions, and naxoo SA, the cable operator of the City of Geneva, today announced a new partnership to secure naxoo's LoRaWAN-based Sherpa network, dedicated to the Internet of Things (IoT). Kudelski will conduct a system-wide security threat assessment of naxoo's IoT network as well as doing hardware- and software-based security assessments of devices that will be used on the network.
naxoo is heavily involved in the development of the smart and sustainable city, a commitment it has achieved by creating Citiz'n a coworking space specifically dedicated to the Smart City, and by developing Sherpa, a secure platform dedicated to the Internet of Things (IoT) that allows communities as well as institutional and private players to deploy and control networks of connected objects.
The development of IoT technologies marks the most important societal and economic transformation since the advent of the Internet and mobile telephony. It enables intelligent management and energy optimization of buildings (smart building), remote metering and opens up new perspectives for healthcare and agriculture players. The increasing complexity of data networks - sensors, devices, infrastructure, applications, storage - makes it necessary to manage security end to end and throughout its entire lifecycle, which is the objective of naxoo's partnership with Kudelski.
Erick Pipault, Managing Director of naxoo, welcomed the new collaboration with the company's historic pay-TV security partner: "The combination of Kudelski's expertise in digital security and naxoo's infrastructure and operations will make our network a benchmark in the field of the Internet of Things. We will offer institutional and private players in the Lake Geneva area the first secure end-to-end IoT network, guaranteeing the confidentiality and integrity of their data and their customers' data. Through this partnership, naxoo becomes a pioneer in infrastructure, technology and best practices for secure IoT networks."
Kudelski Group Chairman & CEO André Kudelski concurred. "Our security partnership with naxoo dates back to the 1990's, and the expansion of this relationship to include IoT security is a testament to the innovative capabilities of both companies. By leveraging our IoT Security Labs and other technologies and services like Kudelski IoT keySTREAM, naxoo is creating a robust, reliable regional network for its customers that guarantees them trust, integrity and control for their IoT activities."
This demonstrates that long term partnerships can stimulate innovation in new promising business areas.
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