Breaking Down Silos to Combat the IoT Threat | SIGNAL Magazine
Every time federal information technology professionals think they’ve gotten in front of the cybersecurity risks posed by the Internet of Things (IoT), a new and unexpected challenge rears its head. Take, for instance, the heat maps used by GPS-enabled fitness tracking applications, which the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) warned showed the location of military bases, or the infamous Mirai Botnet attack of 2016. The former led to the banning of personal devices from classified areas in the Pentagon, as well as a ban on all devices that use geolocating services for deployed personnel. While the latter may not have specifically targeted government networks, it still served as an effective wakeup call that connected devices have the potential to create a large-scale security crisis.