Why we should be worried about IoT security

Dr Ramzan discussing challenges around the IoT at the RSA Conference in Singapore.

Dr Zulkifar Ramzan, CTO, RSA Labs says that the Internet of Things (IoT) suffers from several problems:

- When new IoT devices enter a network, it is not clear how they are identified

- There are no standards on how to manage risk associated with the devices. "To understand and measure risk you need visibility," he said during a session on research projects at RSA during a press and analyst day ahead of the RSA Conference Asia Pacific & Japan 2018.

- Analytics are needed to drive meaningful insights on what these devices might be doing. There is a lot of work around identity and access management as what is on the devices typically cannot be controlled.

- Encryption becomes challenging in very constrained environments.

There are still questions around overall device management, such as how connected devices are updated, he added.

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