Kaspersky Lab: Companies Worried About IoT | PYMNTS.com
Kaspersky Lab, the security company, announced Tuesday (June 26) a new “State of Industrial Cybersecurity 2018” survey, which found that 65 percent of organizations globally believe that OT/ICS security risks are more likely with IoT over the next year.
In a press release, Kaspersky Lab said that, with organizations realizing the risk with IoT use cases, managing connected devices is a major priority of 53 percent of survey respondents. What’s more, 77 percent of industrial organizations surveyed said they feel unsafe, with respondents saying that their organizations are likely to become the target of a cybersecurity incident involving industrial control networks.
As for concerns related to IoT, 54 percent claim the increased risks associated with connectivity and the integration of IoT ecosystems is a major challenge, as are new types of IoT security measures that need to be implemented.