Looks like I started a good thread.... :mellow:
The good news is that IoT security IS indeed garnering a lot of attention/research/etc from many directions. Recent chatter on the topic on an internal discussion group in my company just today. The academic and government research groups are active in the area. The bad news is that more and more 'bad guys' are looking that direction also. And it's NOT a new topic. Remember the STUXNET 'incident'??
And it's not only that you necessarily want your light bulbs on the internet. It's also about un-intended paths in the network. No-one intended to put the Jeep steering control on the internet... Today, lots of the HA/IoT applications are using common mobile devices for UI's. Need I say more.... I suppose one could have a mobile device that only has WiFi and that WiFi is segmented to only be internal to the house.
A good dialog on this thread as HA/IoT security needs to be center-stage. And too often it's not.
The good news is that IoT security IS indeed garnering a lot of attention/research/etc from many directions. Recent chatter on the topic on an internal discussion group in my company just today. The academic and government research groups are active in the area. The bad news is that more and more 'bad guys' are looking that direction also. And it's NOT a new topic. Remember the STUXNET 'incident'??
And it's not only that you necessarily want your light bulbs on the internet. It's also about un-intended paths in the network. No-one intended to put the Jeep steering control on the internet... Today, lots of the HA/IoT applications are using common mobile devices for UI's. Need I say more.... I suppose one could have a mobile device that only has WiFi and that WiFi is segmented to only be internal to the house.
A good dialog on this thread as HA/IoT security needs to be center-stage. And too often it's not.