Two independent IoT (Internet of Things) cybersecurity publications were released yesterday by the White House and the Department of Homeland Security, covering guidelines and principles for creating IoT devices with in-built security measures, as well as recommended protocols for implementing such measures.
The Obama administration ‘rushed’ the NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) publication a month ahead of the planned release, primarily due to the escalated urgency surrounding cybersecurity for IoT devices following last month’s major Distributed Denial of Service attack that disabled parts of the United States’ internet infrastructure.
Cybersecurity has long been a concern since Internet connectivity started becoming more prolific in the 1990s. As connectivity came to mobile devices en masse in the 2000s, it became an even bigger issue. Today, the Internet of Things is next in line for in-depth scrutiny because it involves a large number of interconnected devices that are perpetually online. That increases the quantum of risk by a significant magnitude. For the full article click here
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