Just 10% of Enterprises With IoT Deployments Confident of Cybersecurity Measures, CableLabs Says
Citing an AT&T cybersecurity report based on a survey of 5,000 global enterprises, CableLabs on Thursday blogged that 85 percent of enterprises have IoT device deployments in the works, but only 10 percent of those feel confident they could secure…
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them in a cyberattack. On what the cable industry is doing to secure devices, Ron Ih, Kyrio Security Solutions director-business development, said the most important IoT security trend this year is the use of digital certificates and public key infrastructure to better secure the onboarding process when a device is authenticated and added to a network. Main challenges facing the IoT, Ih said, are that most device makers don’t have security experts and are “unprepared to manage security complexities.” Device makers deal with millions of devices per year, work with firmware and small footprint applications and the devices have limited computing power and storage, he said: Security can be limited to what’s deemed essential to reduce costs and delivery times.