6 Tips For Locking Down IoT Devices
SC Media, Monday, March 9th, 2026
Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices face the most danger not when they are hacked, but the day they are first powered on.
Each year, millions of people plug in smart speakers, cameras, hubs and appliances, many of them in business settings. These devices are marketed as convenient, intuitive and ready-to-use out of the box. What's far less visible are the security risks they bring with them.
In our research, we have found, they are rarely monitored, infrequently updated, and often trusted by default. This results not in a single spike in exposure, but the normalization of accepted or unknown risk by users driven by systemic weaknesses in the products themselves.