Report: Add Rising Infected IoT Devices to Network Security Challenges – Telecompetitor
The reasons for the acceleration are poor security protection and the use of automated tools by those attacking the devices, researchers said. Network monitoring traffic from more than 150 million devices globally using Nokia’s NetGuard Endpoint Security provided the data for the assessment.
Visibility – or lack of it – is the key. Devices using public facing IP addresses can be seen by cybercriminals and therefore are more vulnerable than those masking their IP address in network address translation (NAT) configurations.