IoT Is Shaping The Security Landscape
Professional Security Magazine, Tuesday, July 2nd, 2024
The Internet of Things (IoT) marks the dawn of a new era in data transfer. Every day, countless new devices join various network infrastructures, exchanging vast amounts of data, writes Ross Brewer, pictured, Vice President & Managing Director EMEA at the threat detection and cyber incident response product firm Graylog.
Over the next decade, we anticipate the number of IoT devices to soar to an eye-watering 207 billion, outnumbering the human population nearly tenfold.
The prospect of these devices communicating with one another to make human lives more seamless, seems like an exciting new adventure. Yet IoT devices are quite obviously becoming an area of vulnerability. According to data, the manufacturing industry was the top targeted sector for IoT malware attacks, accounting for 54.5 per cent of all attacks and averaged 6,000 weekly attacks.