How Real are the IoT Security Concerns?
Kevin Ashton’s famous 1999 presentation to Proctor & Gamble made the internet of things seem like both an untapped gold mine for forward thinking industries, and the next logical step in the evolution of computer technology. Correctly assessing that the Internet was “almost wholly dependent on human beings for information,” Ashton went on to envision a world in which many devices and everyday objects would capture and share data all by themselves — making it easier to track commodities, reduce losses and lower costs. Today, that world is in many ways a reality, but many people in the industry think there might be a dark side.
Today, there is such a proliferation of network-censored items worldwide, they are taken for granted by the vast majority of people who use them. A study by Verizon and ABI Research recently put the number of devices connected to the Internet at 1.2 billion but predicted that by 2020 that number would rise to almost 5.4 billion. Read more…
