16 October, 2017
An inconvenient truth about IoT security
The current political events in Barcelona provide us with a barely-needed reminder that we live in changing times, writes Rob Dyke, the field applications engineering manager at Trustonic. I was in the city as part of the Trustonic team exhibiting at IoT Solutions World Congress last week and took some time to speak with fellow vendors. I soon saw some fantastic product demonstrations that drew my attention – I wanted to learn more. Frequently though, the response to: “This looks great – how is it secured? How do we know the data is trustworthy?” was a puzzled look and a “It uses our cloud and we secure that” or “It runs on a secure OS”. Sometimes the response was worse: “It’s a closed network. You couldn’t attack it”.
