Common Internet of Things security pitfalls – Urgent Comms
Only a minority of consumers trust the brands they use. And the Internet of Things (IoT) itself has a trust problem in the consumer sector. Privacy concerns and poor user experience have “stymied adoption and created a hesitance among users to trust IoT devices,” wrote William Webb and Matthew Hatton in “The Internet of Things Myth.”
While the adoption of smart-home devices continues to tick upward, privacy and security concerns constrain their use to mainly routine tasks. The most popular smart speaker functionality, for instance, is merely playing music, according to eMarketer research.