Europol and EU cyber security agency Enisa have hosted a two-day conference to find was of addressing the cyber security risks posed by internet connected devices.

This is one of eight conclusions drawn from a conference of representatives from the private sector, security community, law enforcement, the European Computer Security Incident Response Teams (CSIRT) community and academia.

The conference was hosted by Europol and Enisa, which have joined forces to tackle the security challenges presented by a wide and diverse ecosystem of up to 20 billion interconnected devices by 2010 and services that collect, exchange and process data to adapt dynamically to a context.

Source: Cooperation vital to securing internet of things, says Europol | ComputerWeekly