Researchers warn that security is historically an afterthought. With everything from thermostats to drones likely belonging to IoT-device swarms in the near future, that’s not wise.
To futurists, the Internet of Things (IoT) is so yesterday. They’re excited about “the swarm.”
Merriam-Webster defines swarm as a large number of honeybees emigrating together from a hive in company with a queen to start a new colony elsewhere. It also defines swarm as a significant number of animate or inanimate things massed together and usually in motion.
Unless you are a beekeeper, the likely definition of interest pertains to inanimate objects belonging to IoT: devices capable of information gathering, data processing, sharing information inter-device and with command and control servers via the internet.