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Updating and deploying software to a large number of connected devices in the field with thousands or tens of thousands of devices, can pose a significant risk with negative repercussions.

Regardless of how well tested the software and update process is, you will only know how well the deployment works for your customers after it has been released into the field. Differences in time zones, netwo...

During 2015 we spent a lot of time talking to users and companies in the embedded space. Our early findings which continued to be confirmed during the market research showed that 50% of all connected devices had no way to be remotely updated. Besides some outliers, the other 50% had homegrown solutions to do over-the-air updates (OTA). Common for almost all homegrown solutions were their fragili...

As a user of countless web accounts for banking, utilities, social media, ecommerce, email, and more, you have probably heard that it is a very bad idea to use the same password across several (or even all) accounts. If one of those sites get compromised (e.g. one of your social media accounts) an attacker may be able to use this information to log in to your online banking.

If we think about th...

Mender’s Mirza Krak presented a joint webinar on December 10th with our partners at The Qt Company on how to use Mender.io to quickly and easily deploy applications made in Qt on to your field-deployed devices.

With the advent of IoT and the proliferation of connected embedded devices across a variety of industry verticals, a large share of devices in development are based on Linux of one form or another due to their prevalence of low-cost boards with ready-made Linux distributions. Easily and cheaply acquiring hardware, building custom code, connecting the devices to other peripherals and the internet a...