In a recent article on Dark Reading, it was revealed that millions of IoT devices were exposed to a peer-to-peer (P2P) vulnerability. Given how wide-spread IoT devices are, and how device adoption will continue in organizations, it is important to understand the nature of these devices and how organizations can prevent these vulnerabilities from becoming …
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It’s that time of year again. Employees have gone away from the office to spend time with friends and family. They will, of course, return shortly in the new year, many of whom will have new devices that they will want to join the corporate network to stay connected. Many of these devices include smartphones, …
Recently, there has been an increase in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that involve the use of compromised IoT devices like IP cameras, and it is extremely common today for organizations and consumers to purchase IoT devices. So how can organizations reduce the IoT threat surface that these devices bring, and how can they see what …
Confidentiality, integrity, and availability are the three major components of information security. Over the years it has become easier to ensure the confidentiality of information via encryption, limiting data access to those who possess the correct key. Information integrity can be validated with a hash like MD5 or SHAxxx. If a file produces the same …
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The Internet of Things (IoT) describes the wide array of devices (beyond traditional computers and mobile phones) that are today, or will be in the future, connected to the internet. According to Gartner, there will be 20.4 billion connected devices by 2020. These internet-connected devices provide valuable functions that make people’s lives easier and improve …
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With billions of devices coming online yearly, the world of IoT (Internet of Things) is upon us. Unfortunately, like any new technology, form and function greatly outweigh security, leaving businesses and individuals exposed. Due to this general disregard early on, IoT security with NetFlow is quickly becoming a focus and pushing companies into better monitoring …
Last week at the Cyber Security Summit in Denver, I participated in a panel that answered questions being asked by the moderator, David Cass – CISO, IBM. Several hundred people signed up for the event, which is being held again in Boston on November 1st.
It turns out, we were right; we just were looking at the wrong toys. In a recent article on Softpedia, Gabriela “Gaby” Vatu provides confirmation of what we have believed would happen with the continuing emergence of IoT. Effectively, internet-connected devices can collect vast troves of our data and become easily compromised, resulting in privacy …
Late last month on Black Friday, Hong Kong-based toymaker VTech suffered a data breach. Sure, we can just dump it into the ever-expanding list of hacked retailers–except this time, the hacker was able to obtain data of over 200,000 children.