The proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices is continuing to increase, which is great for innovation in the smart home, smart city and smart thing business. But it can also deal a double blow to cybersecurity.
Hasty development, coupled with ever-more ubiquitous connected things, is a bad combination. Carelessly “secured” systems will face more cyber threats than ever before.
“The cybersecurity risk is greater each day,” says Neil Lakomiak, director of business development and innovation for UL, the 124-year-old testing and certification lab. “The more connected devices connected to the internet and connected to a broader network, the greater the attack vector in general for everything. Each time you connect a device to a network and the internet, you now have another way to compromise that overall system.It’s another entry point for a bad actor to do bad things. That is the real risk. That’s the real concern.”
Internet of Things and M2M
Discussing Internet of Things (IoT), Machine to Machine and embedded device security, development, and trends
