The Internet of Things could be the next big thing in tech: A world of connected devices, from thermostats, refrigerators to enterprise tools like fleets of cars and data center switches.
But it could also turning into a real headache for security folks.
“The more data there is, the more opportunity there is for something to go wrong,” says Christopher Budd, a global threat communications manager at Trend Micro. Budd says a world of unsecured connected devices “scares the living crap out of me.”
“The kind of data we’re talking about is a lot scarier and a lot more meaningful than the information that has typically been stored on a PC five or 10 years ago,” he says. “As the devices connected to the Internet get closer to the physical person, the information they collect becomes more personal.” And so therefore the loss or illicit use of that data is that much more personal.
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Chuck Sherwood, Former Senior Associate, TeleDimensions, Inc