Check the security maturity of your Retail POS environment

Internet-connected devices, from point-of-sale payment devices such as signature scanners, to audit-logging devices such as printers and cash dispensers, have dramatically increased retail industry security threats. New threats are constantly emerging, and attackers are becoming more capable and organized. At the same time, compliance requirements for security and data protection are becoming more stringent. Retail organizations are rightly concerned about developing robust security and data protection plans.

Retail establishments need to take a structured, top-down approach toward setting goals and a means to assess the current security state, trading off investment against risk in a sensible manner. This webinar takes concepts identified in the IIC Industrial Internet Security Framework and the IoT SMM Practitioner’s Guide and will help retail organization stakeholders determine their security needs. First, business stakeholders use the model to define security goals and objectives tied to risks. Then, technical teams within the retail organization, or third-party assessment vendors, map these objectives into tangible security techniques and capabilities, and identify an appropriate target security maturity level.

Attendees will learn how to match their investment with their security needs as they migrate their point-of-sale devices within the IOT world.

Robocars will make life better and more efficient. But autonomous vehicles (AVs) that do everything drivers can do are still years or even decades away. And since operation with nobody in the car is critical for economic viability, we need a way to help the AV with “corner cases”. The best way to enable AVs sooner is to use human operators to suggest strategies when the vehicle gets stuck. That requires vehicle fleets to have control rooms. This session will examine the potential and challenge of practical teleoperation, including combining assistance strategies, control-center design, cloud computing, and 5G connectivity. It will also consider the architecture required to connect in-vehicle control and remote oversight. These systems should not be designed independently. AVs need a consistent architecture for the vehicle, control center, and cloud.

Abstract: During the industrialization of agriculture, the mechanical machineries helped farmers reduce effort and time while increasing yield per acre. But the risks of rapid climate changes plus growing demand for food products in market (such as food supply chain, food processing industries) for an increasing population, have increased dramatically. This demand has created pressure on the existing agriculture methods with a wide range of challenges. At the same time, it has created new opportunities for improvement. The integration of newer IoT technologies and devices into the agricultural practices is now pushing farmers to migrate to digital farming and precision agriculture. This advancement allows them to benefit from the current demand for agricultural products while resolving related challenges and risks.
Because DDS is precise, highly complex, dynamic, secure and robust, it is an ideal connectivity tool for control systems and a connected network that can facilitate the exchange of data in real-time. Join the webinar to learn more.
This webinar is the latest in the series of DDS use cases, produced by the DDS Foundation. For more information, please visit www.dds-foundation.org.

An introduction to Knowledge Graphs and Ontologies with Elisa Kendall followed by and update on OMG Ontology standards with Evan Wallace. Presented live Sept. 15 as part of the OMG Q3 Technical Committee meeting.

Google popularized the notion of a knowledge graph, loosely defined as a network of entities and their interrelationships in 2012. Although the phrase has been popularized relatively recently, the underlying technologies have been around for decades. The OMG Ontology PSIG was founded in the early 2000s, more than 15 years ago, largely by people who also participated in the W3C’s Semantic Web community. Recent articles by Gartner, ZDNet and others point out the growing importance of knowledge graphs, including the need to bridge the gaps between property graphs and semantically enabled graphs, emphasizing the importance of metadata and explainability.

OMG has been developing standards for many years to support ontologies and linked data. Evan will briefly describe some relevant semantic modeling, API, and domain content specifications developed or in development at OMG, and the status and plans for such work in the future.

The Retail Industry Ontology (RIO) is a recent, on-going effort to provide a common ontology for the retail domain. The effort has as its foundation the significant catalog of retail standards developed by ARTS (Association for Retail Technology Standards), which has transitioned to the OMG Retail Domain Task Force, and where there is a continued evolution of those standards to address the modern retail and technical landscape. A foundational element of this next generation will be to bring the legacy terminology established in the ARTS Operational Data Model into a new Retail ontology, leveraging the work of FIBO and other standard ontologies to jumpstart the effort and to strive for greater interoperability in this highly connected world.

A new specification for Application Programming Interfaces for Knowledge Based Systems and Platforms (API4KP) that has been under development at OMG for several years will be presented this week in the Analysis and Design Platform Task Force. The purpose of these APIs is to facilitate the development and integration of knowledge graphs and knowledge-based systems in a broader enterprise framework. In this talk, Dr. Sottara will provide a brief overview of the specification and highlight how it works with lower-level APIs to bridge semantically-enabled knowledge graphs with machine learning, natural language processing, and other enterprise decision support systems in practice.

Want to know which new specs have been approved? Interested in helping to influence the direction of new standards? Curious what's on the agendas for the September meeting? Join us in this webinar for an overview of recently approved specifications, learn where you can participate on open work in progress, see what's being discussed in the task forces and how you can get involved.
Home to some of the world's foremost ontologists and creators of the most popular software modeling and systems engineering standards, OMG has been setting the standards since 1989. OMG's proven process has earned the ISO Fast-Track/PAS submitter status. Learn what's happening with the standards that power your business!

The digital twin market is estimated to grow from USD 3.8 billion in 2019 to USD 35.8 billion by 2025, how will it get there? Learn how Digital Twin Consortium is growing the ecosystem of industry, academia and government agencies to drive the adoption, use, interoperability and development of digital twin technology. Digital Twin Consortium is The Authority in Digital Twin as it relates to policy, security, interoperability and overall development of digital twins. The consortium will define the ecosystem, standards requirements, architectures, open source code, identify gaps, and publish statements and opinions. Digital Twin Consortium VP Technical Director Dan Isaacs will provide an overview on what problems the consortium is looking to solve and what its priorities are in its first year. He will be joined by Digital Twin Consortium member Pieter van Schalkwyk, CEO of XMPro. Come hear what Digital Twin Consortium is all about and see if membership will benefit your business.

The Data Distribution Service (DDS) from the Object Management Group
(OMG) is a data connectivity framework becoming standardized in a wide range of industries and military systems. From autonomous vehicles and embedded medical devices to electrical grids and intelligence and weapon systems, DDS is found in a growing number of architecture standards and government contracts.
In this webinar Nina Tucker, VP of Technology for Twin Oaks Computing, will provide an introduction to the DDS technology along with current DDS use cases.

Leading software vendors demonstrate the iterative elaboration and interchange of a Business Process Model and Notation™ (BPMN) model using their respective tools that implement the BPMN standard. Recorded live June 22, 2020

The DDS Foundation is pleased to announce the next in its series of use case webinars. Join us on June 10 to learn about the use of DDS in Maintenance Sensor Networks. Complex sensor networks are often required for predictive and preventative maintenance in smart manufacturing, oil & gas, smart power grids & distribution, healthcare, cold storage, waste management and more.

This webinar will discuss how DDS is used to enable lower granularity of data and real-time exchange without data loss or duplication, and at a lower cost.

About the presenter:
Jayachandran RameshBabu is a IIoT Engineer from Accessible Engineering Innovation. He specializes in IIoT and Industry 4.0 technologies including M2C and M2M communication standards, TSN and other field bus Ethernet protocols.

The Tactical Microgrid Standard (TMS) is a new power system architecture, developed to meet DoD and industry needs. TMS offers unique features that address challenges faced by existing power systems. DDS provides resilient and secure publish/subscribe communications for TMS. The presenter, Daniel Herring has used DDS for 14 years at MIT Lincoln Laboratory and shares some experience on what DDS enables and how DDS can be introduced to other organizations.

The future possibilities of DDS are endless. Join DDS industry experts to learn more about the future of the DDS Standard and how it applies to your business. This one hour, free webinar will provide an overview of recent DDS specification adoption in products, industry-specific standards, and deployment success stories. Hosted by the DDS Foundation, this is a dynamic, informative and interactive event for those using DDS, or those who are exploring technologies needed to develop and run their next generation systems.
Panelists:
Adam Mitz, Principal Software Engineer, OCI, Director Interoperability, DDS Foundation
Gerardo Pardo-Castellote, Ph.D., RTI, co-chair OMG DDS PSIG
Nina Tucker, Vice President of Client Services, Twin Oaks Computing
Erik Hendriks, Technical Lead, ADLink Technology
Moderated by Jason McC. Smith, OMG VP and Technology Director

Cybersecurity attacks and data breaches have led to the emergence of a growing Cyber Insurance (CI) market. The rapid expansion of cloud computing has created an additional challenge for its users: how to compensate for the business losses suffered in case of a cloud provider outage. As they review cloud service agreements (CSA), users find that the financial remedies for such disruption are insufficient. Can CI fill that gap? To find more about the needs and solutions, OMG issued a Request for Information (RFI), with a deadline of May 25, 2020.

In this webinar, the authors of the RFI and the co-chairs of OMG’s Cloud Working Group will explain the reasons why CI may play an important role for cloud providers and customers alike; give a “guided tour” of the RFI itself; and tell attendees how their participation will help define the future of CI.

A patient monitoring system typically consists hundreds, sometimes thousands of interconnected physiological acquisition devices (bedside monitors), real-time clinical viewers with command and control of the ecosystem (central stations), and event annunciation (sounding clinical and system alarms) to a plurality of locations, based on caregiver workflows. The DDS middleware’s data-centric, network-based state management is fundamental to the reliability, robustness and distributed operation of a system designed to make life-critical decisions and provide
clinical information for further care.

Join GE Healthcare Chief Engineer Matt Grubis who will discuss how DDS is addressing the data connectivity of a complex hospital patient monitoring system.

The first ever fully online OMG Technical Meeting is in the books. Want to know which new specs have been approved? Interested in helping to influence the direction of new standards? Curious what's on the agendas for the June meeting? Join us in this webinar for an overview of recently approved specifications, learn where you can participate on open work in progress, see what's being discussed in the task forces and how you can get involved.
Home to some of the world's foremost ontologists and creators of the most popular software modeling and systems engineering standards, OMG has been setting the standards since 1989. OMG's proven process has earned the ISO Fast-Track/PAS submitter status. Learn what's happening with the standards that power your business!

The presentation describes an analysis based on the use of UAF to look at business issues affecting a full deployment of electric roads in Sweden. Electrified Roads are considered as a prime candidate to ensure that the carbon dioxide emissions in Sweden are reduced since heavy truck transport account for a significant portion. In a fully deployed environment the business handling requires significant analysis. There are also real-time technical issues that need to be dealt with as electric roads covering significant distances needs to be dealt with. The presentation presents result covering both business as well as technical issues

Abstract: This presentation will address the use of the Unified Architecture Framework (UAF) to lower the barrier to MBSE adoption by creating a templated Acquisition Reference Model (ARM), used to structure RFP content for consumption and evaluation throughout the lifecycle of the a program. The ARM exemplar and guidance will be delivered with the UAF specification as a non-normative example. This presentation is an update to the current status.