Michael A. Goedeker, Auxilium Cyber Se-curity: Yes, as in all new technology, we, for some reason, always forget to integra-te security right from the start. This is a dangerous way of creating new services and products. Since IoT connects systems previously not connected, we will only get to see the „new” hacking vectors as it be-comes more mainstream.
Amit Serper, Cybereason: While I think IoT might have jump started a culture-shift towards security in some industries - such as automotive - for the most part, I don’t think people care enough about security to make IoT systems inherently more se-cure than what we have now. Unfortuna-tely, I don’t think there will be much of a groundswell towards building secure IoT systems until people and businesses start experiencing consequences for themse-lves.
Roberto Langdon, Nicolas Orlandini, KPMG: IoT is becoming an amazing advan-tage for people’s wellness, but if we consi-der this with the little responsibility by mobile phone users in terms of protection and security, this will become a funny war between users and delinquents. I cannot imagine a toaster firewall but we can have security on the other side.
David Coallier, Barricade: The providers of security products need to understand that we have new computing capabilities avai-lable to us nowadays that allow for leaps in pattern discovery. Continuing to deve-lop products that are doing heavy pro-cessing on the devices is no longer an option and the democratisation of compu-ting Amazon is leading will force many incumbents to change how they do things.
Mark Bennet, Blustor: Despite the efforts of many organizations to get in front of IoT related security issues, the drive to get to market first with these products is go-ing to result in numerous vulnerabilities that can scarcely be understood yet. This means a long and painful road ahead for IoT but it will ultimately drive significant changes in the industry. Unfortunately, I suspect we have many years of learning from the “school of hard knocks” in front of us.
Andrew Bagrin, My Digital Shield: Very much so. We can no longer expect to have a security endpoint client on every piece of hardware out there that has an IP.
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Amber Schroader, Paraben Corporation:
IoT has caused a lot of changes in how we look at digital evidence and access of digi-tal devices in our daily life. IoT will make huge changes to where we see our infor-mation spread out to, as well as where it can be collected from.
Anthony Di Bello, Guidance Software: Yes, in today’s climate of privacy concerns, security will be critical to mass market adoption of IoT devices. It’s already forced the industry to change. Take a look at what Intel/McAfee is talking about lately.
Wade Lovell, Simpatic: Yes, IoT provides a new attack vector. The Internet of Things is a nightmare for security. Think of each one of those devices as a small computer transmitting personal information about you. What time are you out of the house?
Did you turn on the burglar alarm? How do you remotely unlock the back door? At the moment, all that data is poorly secu-red.
Julie Herold, Kenny Herold, Odin’s Eye:
No, this area is too new and not profitable yet as a result of the lack of presence.
BroadTech Security Team: YES, I wrote about a particular scenario a few months back but it was not received then but now people have started appreciating it after reality started striking. IoT is going to bring a deluge of data for processing, which traditional Big Data processing techniques, Internet bandwidth, cloud storage should be able to handle for a long time without breaking down. We will see more and more of Proximity Cloud or Intelligent Sensor Cloud that will throw Sen-sor Cloud ( I coined the term while resear-ching AI ) no matter how big your infra-structure is, someday someone is going to question processing and storing all data because ultimately it all translates to cost incurred. I know I will get mocked on this but let us see :-).
Wade Johansen, CouriTech LLC: Will IoT force the industry to change? Yes, NEST is already making an impact. People want to be in touch with their homes, children, and PCs at all times. The world's techno-logy industries will need to accommodate this to remain profitable.
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Craig McDonald, MailGuard: A study pre-sented in October 2015 by the IT research company, Gartner, predicts a transforma-tion in the world of cybersecurity within the next two years, thanks to the Internet of Things.
By the end of 2017, more than 20% of bu-sinesses will be using security services dedicated to protecting businesses ini-tiatives, and that use devices and services based on the Internet of Things.
Two examples: A sensor that detects and adjusts the temperature in a room auto-matically; another that adjusts the dosage of medication for a patient in their hospi-tal bed according to new data on their medical records.
Threat intelligence sharing among enter-prises and security vendors will grow and mature. Legislative steps may be taken, making it possible for companies and governments to share threat intelligence.
The development of best practices in this area will accelerate.
Einaras Gravrock, Cujo: IoT is about to magnify the issues of cyber security with billions of new devices entering the mar-ket – devices that are largely unsecured. I think it’s relatively easy to make an argu-ment that IoT represents the biggest cy-ber security challenge yet. They are easy targets with potential for limitless dama-ge.
Ondrej Krehel, LIFARS: A bit, but not real-ly.
Rajeev Chauhan: Yes, in a big way.