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Enterprises are increasingly complementing their cloud-based IoT solutions with edge computing to accelerate the pace of data analysis and make better decisions, faster.
Just a few years ago, many expected all the Internet of Things (IoT) to move to…
Just a few years ago, many expected all the Internet of Things (IoT) to move to…
Guest post by Jason English, Principal Analyst, Intellyx
Surely you’ve caught some of the excitement about drones for enterprise use. Packages and communications delivered to the world by these ultimately mobile IoT fliers. Heavy VC investment in…
Surely you’ve caught some of the excitement about drones for enterprise use. Packages and communications delivered to the world by these ultimately mobile IoT fliers. Heavy VC investment in…
Guest article by Richard van Hooijdonk
In around 30 years, planet Earth will be home to almost ten billion people, 68 per cent of which will live in urban areas. And those urban areas will face a torrent of problems, as authorities will have to rely…
In around 30 years, planet Earth will be home to almost ten billion people, 68 per cent of which will live in urban areas. And those urban areas will face a torrent of problems, as authorities will have to rely…
As we covered in the past, Gartner is out with their predictions for IoT. This time for the year's 2018-2023. The announcement was made at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2018 in Barcelona, Spain.
Nick Jones, research vice president at Gartner said,…
When I ask people what they think the Internet of Things (IoT) is all about, the vast majority will say “smart homes,” probably based on personal experience. If I say that it is also about industries making using of data from sensors, then most…
In 2016, the Industrial Internet Consortium gained agreement upon an understanding of the term “trustworthiness” and its effect on design and operation of an industrial system. At the core of that understanding was a definition of trustworthiness…
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Hi David -
Here is the prediction we discussed:
The home “personal network of things” will draw the interest of bot herders.
Home automation products combined with a multitude of personal computing devices has created a “personal network of things” (let’s call it a PNoT for fun). These devices are rarely protected or maintained with the same vigor as corporate I.T. systems, making them generally more vulnerable to being compromised and drafted into a zombie army.
This situation is nothing new, but in the next year we can expect to see “personal networks of things” reside in homes with gigabit internet connections -- like those offered by Google and AT&T -- and so make home networks far more interesting, especially if vulnerabilities in popular home devices can be exploited mechanically (e.g. how the Mirai botnet was built).
Consumers will need to protect their personal networks from this new version of Mirai botnets, creating demand for services that safeguard them. More importantly, vendors will need to adopt better standards for protection of devices. If the Mirai botnet is any indication, the lack of security in device design is still quite profound.