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Are you attending CES 2019? Find Minim at #CONNSummit19 Next week, we'll join over 175,000 innovators descending upon Las Vegas for the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Organized by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), CES 2019 will feature over 4,000 company exhibits and 1,000 speakers.

In the past few months, we've seen major connected device vulnerabilities make headlines. At Minim, IoT security is always top of mind, so we're kicking off a home network security monitoring series. Take a look at what caught our eye.

We're kicking off November with the Smart Home Summit In just a few days, Minim CTO Alec Rooney will speak at the Smart Home Summit by Informa, an event that brings together leaders in the smart home industry. This 2-day event takes place on November 6-7th, and is jam-packed with keynote speakers, panel discussions, presentations, and analyst briefs that highlight the industry's evolving market ...

Today marks the kick-off of the Cable-Tec Expo, aka the Cable Engineering Event of the Year— Will we see you there? We're back on the East Coast this week to attend the Cable-Tec Expo 2018 in Atlanta, Georgia. Held by the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) and International Society of Broadband Experts (ISBE), the SCTE•ISBE Cable-Tec Expo® has been the industry's largest cable ...

Names are a funny thing on the Internet. The domains everyone visits while browsing the web are solely for people. When you ask your browser to go to a website, it starts by converting that name into an address it can start talking to.

Our next stop? Las Vegas, NV where we will be joining #WISPAPALOOZA2018

We recently participated in a Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) IoT working group discussing IoT security and the concept of managed and unmanaged IoT devices. Providers today put equipment in the home, taking full responsibility and authority for the management of these devices. Last year, consumers bought $273B worth of IoT devices which they expect to be plug-and-play. When ...

"With great technology comes great responsibility." - Peggy Smedley

We are connecting more devices and streaming more media in homes, and it's putting our WiFi to the test. It's no wonder that 37% of US broadband households have reported problems with their WiFi network in the last year. Ultimately, consumers are facing a dilemma: How can I enjoy using my plethora of smart home devices while ensuring my network supports them? The solution is Residential Managed ...

It should be understood that any device connected to the internet can be vulnerable to hacking. We see stories in the news about cameras, smartphones, laptops, smart speakers, smart appliances, and baby monitors being compromised. Security vulnerabilities in smart homes are being discovered every day. One security company exploited these vulnerabilities to show just how easy a cyber attack in the ...