Best Practices For IoT Security: 7 Strategies For IoT Vendors
IoT For All , Wednesday, May 29th, 2024
Most IoT security breaches are preventable-maybe even all of them. Look at any high-profile IoT attack and you'll find a known security flaw.
- The Ring smart camera breaches of 2019? Users were allowed to create weak passwords and skip multi-factor authentication.
- The Verkada surveillance service attacks of 2021? The company's system had too many super-admin roles, virtually ensuring powerful credentials would leak (which they did).
- The infamous Mirai botnet of 2016? It worked by exploiting common passwords for IoT devices.
A few common-sense policies would have prevented all three of these attacks.