Trend Micro’s IoT Joint Venture Offers a New Approach to Tackling Weaknesses in Cybersecurity » Dallas Innovates
Computer systems everywhere are susceptible to malware such as WannaCry and NotPetya, which spread in an untargeted way across thousands of computers worldwide in 2016 and 2017, and more recently hackers have deliberately attacked and gained access to energy utilities in the U.S. and Europe. Newer devices may simply need updates or patches installed, but that task can be inconvenient, especially in a large-scale industrial operation, and older devices may have little or no security protection at all.