IIC Journal of Innovation 4th Edition | Page 51

What’s New at the IIC? solve the challenge of multiple companies needing to work together to ensure security both within a single manufacturer’s plants and across every participant in the value chain. S HARING E XPERTISE AND G ATHERING N EW I DEAS The Liaison Working Group has approved or are pursuing strategic technical relationships with over 64 organizations including Avnu Alliance, ITAC, CAICT, ISO, Industrie 4.0, IEEE, OASIS, OMG, SGIP and many others. Our members showcase their expertise at public- facing events around the globe such as the IIoT World Tour Event Series, Public Forums we host, webinars, Hannover Mess and the premier global IoT event we co-organize – IOT Solutions World Congress. At Hannover Messe 2017, our Joint Task Group 5: Security hosted a joint demonstration in the IIC and Plattform Industrie 4.0 booths. The joint demo showed how the IIC’s Industrial Internet Security Framework (IISF) and the concepts of secure cooperation in cross- company environments can be applied to T ESTBEDS Testbeds continue to be a major focus and activity of the Industrial Internet Consortium and our members. Testbeds provide an environment for companies and multi- disciplinary stakeholders to team up and prove out complex systems and gain real- world experience. With 26 approved testbeds (and more in the pipeline), participants are generating best practices, recommendations and priorities for standards organizations. Learn about our recent Testbed Showcase Winner: The Time Sensitive Networking Testbed. View video here. - 50 - June 2017