Remember when, three years ago, several Mirai botnets hit DNS provider Dyn and caused part of the Internet to be unreachable for most users in North America and Europe? For a moment there it really seemed that IoT security would become an indisputable necessity.
Unfortunately, that did not happen, and security professionals and consumers are left trying to minimize the dangers of insecure IoT and industrial IoT devices as best they can.
The problem with IoT devices
IoT devices are often connected directly to the Internet and they are rarely hardened against unwanted access and compromise. They often use obsolete protocols like Telnet. Many legacy IoT devices that are still being utilized either cannot be updated or the vendor no longer supports the device, while new vulnerabilities are discovered every day. Finally, detecting ..
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