IoT device security specialist Stephen Ridley will join us in this week's feature slot to discuss that.
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The problems with the XiongMai devices underscores a general lack of security in the supply chain for devices that are currently being sold globally, said Jamison Utter of the firm Senrio. “Manufacturers really have no guidance on what is good or bad or what they should be doing. It might seem obvious to us that you don’t build devices with unchangeable default administrator account names and passwords, but from their standpoint, there’s no checklist or guidance on what industry best practices are.”

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The security industry has not done a great job at protecting our computers and servers. And now we are connecting billions of devices with no or minimal security. IoT poses a real threat to physical safety, cybersecurity, financial and privacy risk. The risk is systemic and at a much bigger scale than we have seen in traditional IT. IoT security requires a scalable and procedural approach - to replace the fragmented and ad hoc practices we currently have in place. ​