FitPay: Borrowing Security Across The IoT | PYMNTS.com
The Internet of Things (IoT) is growing rapidly – too rapidly, some would say. The proliferation of connected devices on the market can make securing each one a challenge. Even where security is sufficient, connected consumers have many devices, and the more they have, the more difficult it is to get all of them playing nicely together.
Michael Orlando, COO of NXT-ID and President of FitPay, says security across devices is one of the greatest obstacles the IoT will need to solve, and it’s something the sister startups have been working toward. Today, Orlando said, there’s no fluid way to authenticate against the single individual who owns multiple devices. Instead, the user must authenticate on each device that has authentication features, or simply not authenticate at all on ones that don’t.