IoT a new generation of security

摘要

Opinions vary on just how big the so-called Internet of Things (IoT) will become, as its rate of growth continues to accelerate over the next few years. Conservative estimates based on a study by IT company Verizon for consumer devices brings the total to around five billion devices by 2020 but when the far larger Industrial IoT is taken into account, the figure could be 10 times that estimate. During the progress that has been made so far, focus has been on technology, bandwidth, communications protocols and big data handling, with security typically being looked at only as a secondary factor. It's one of those elements that's often washed over as something that the existing office system security vendors will take care of, or as something that isn't really a problem.