NEC, the Japanese IT and electronics company, has announced that it has combined its fraud detection technologies with those from Cisco, utilising NEC blockchain technologies for network devices.
The partnership was brokered to strengthen processes for confirming the authenticity of network equipment used for security areas and critical industrial infrastructure prior to shipment, during construction, and during operation.
This is an important advancement in NEC’s efforts to strengthen the verification, monitoring, and management of authenticity throughout the network system supply chain by expanding the scope of targeted network equipment through partnerships.
Both NEC and Cisco aim to begin rolling out network equipment based on this initiative from fiscal 2020.
In recent years, cyber threats have become increasingly serious, and there are growing concerns that attacks targeting the security domain and the supply chains of critical industrial infrastructure could cause significant economic and social damage.
In addition, security measures for network equipment in a multi-vendor environment is an important issue for NEC.
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