Why security in the Internet of Things is different from cybersecurity

The Internet of Things (IoT) is clearly so much more than just the ‘things’. It has become a huge collaborative effort to bring all the pieces together to deliver real value with a chain that stretches from humans to machines to the cloud.

However, widely acknowledged as the number one issue in IoT deployment is security, and it needs to be properly addressed before broad adoption can take place. There have been any number of widely publicized hacks over the past few years from the Stuxnet worm to the hack of retail-firm Target to hacks of Jeeps, infusion pumps and baby monitors, to name but a few. The threat is very real as, according to some, there are nearly one million new hacker attacks identified every day.

Many are reasonably well versed with cybersecurity, but security in the IoT is a somewhat different beast. Assuming the predictions of tens of billions of connected things become a reality, this means that the IoT has a significantly larger attack surface to defend. In addition, devices such as light bulbs, thermostats and power meters will have greater accessibility to attack. In the vast majority, devices will be low-cost end nodes with low or even no budget for security measures such as physical tamper proofing or encryption capability that requires high-processing power. These key distinctions mean that a different approach and different security measures will be necessary to deliver IoT security. For the full article click here 

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