Security in the internet of everything era - opening statement

摘要

Since Nikola Tesla’s “teleautomation”, it has taken almost 80 years for the general public to experience what culminated into the Internet of Things and another ten to truly accept it. The problem is that in recent years, a vast range of devices and systems were designed to support this new paradigm, but with little regard to security or privacy, despite the profound impact that breaches of either can have to a user’s “real life”.