Industry Insights

Microsoft Acquires CyberX in Bid to Enhance Security for IoT Business

Microsoft has acquired security vendor CyberX to boost IoT deployments. With this acquisition, Microsoft adds one more component to its Azure IoT security capabilities. 

Economic Substance and the Emerging Distributed Company

According to the Oxford English dictionary, substance can be defined as any of the following:

1. A type of solid, liquid or gas that has particular qualities;
2. The quality of being based on facts or the truth; or
3. The most important or main part of something.

Competing in a Future of Unknown Unknowns

Major structural movements in technology, demographics, and geopolitical intervention has created a constantly changing competitive environment. Infrequent waterfall decision processes must become dynamic, malleable sprint cycles that deliver incremental value. Competing in a future of unknown unknowns will require a change in mindset, empowering nimble teams, and embracing calculated risks.

Planting Economic Substance in the Cayman Islands

The Cayman Islands has always subscribed to uphold and maintain international best practices and the recent enactment of the Economic Substance law further strengthens that commitment. High-risk intellectual property structures now face considerable thresholds to show their native roots and local counsel should be approached to determine the legal ramifications and full operational impact.