Todd Gray, chairman and president of Autonomous ID, said this new CMU lab gives his company the needed research and development boost to field trial the primary identity apparatus dubbed BioSole and its cloud connected automation suite governing the access and use of controlled resources.

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To attain such high aspirations, Google set an aggressive research and development agenda that employed more expensive technology and aimed for full automation, rather than using off-the-shelf technology that enable narrow applications.

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However, Douglas Wylie, Business Development Manager for Networks and Security at Rockwell Automation said in-house research found the vulnerability to be more pervasive within the Rockwell family of software.

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