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JohnBarnes
12/31/2016 2:07:02 AM
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Re: IOT 2017
freehe,
And there are not all that many someones who do. Quite a few who say they do, of course. But even if you have the understanding and the budget to hire an expert in a field, if there aren't enough experts, some firms just won't be able to hire them.
JohnBarnes
12/31/2016 2:05:27 AM
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Re: IOT 2017
VNewman,
Dibs on calling the product "Sudden Cold Draft." As in what you feel when someone unexpectedly opens your back door.
Slightly more seriously, a system to intelligently recognize that there is an upsurge in traffic through a back door, and determine whether that traffic looks legit, would be a great project for a small company or a doctoral dissertation working in big data/pattern recog/machine learning. If somebody's got that underway, one of us tech journo types should go bang on their door for an interview.
JohnBarnes
12/31/2016 2:01:13 AM
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Re: IOT 2017 Security
faryl,
I suspect that's something like the confidence of a peacetime army, or a rep company that hasn't toured in a few years, or flood control people 15 years after the last time a levee broke.The whole schmear of big data/new analytics/virtualization/standardization we've all been covering has been real important stuff and made a huge difference, but from the business side it hasn't been a real revolution. It's just been stuff they already did somewhat becoming stuff they did all the time, routinely. Tech has been revolutionary all along but it hasn't required much real change in business practices.
So over a decade or so of that kind of consolidation and incremental improvement, a lot of newer and younger managers have come up and been promoted a few times and have gotten used to the idea that "managing tech" means "agreeing to put up with some minor hassles in order to accept having basically the same thing run better." They have never been there during a genuine tech-driven business practices revolution.
"Oh, yeah, you always say you're ready for security issues, then some guy in the tech department says he wants to do something to fix security on the new stuff, and you say go ahead, and it's all fine."
With IoT, they are about to find out how different the world can be.
dcawrey
12/30/2016 6:08:48 PM
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Re: IOT 2017
@vnewman Totally agree with this.
Question: Are there products/services on the market to deal with this issue? Third party access would seem to be a big problem. Some vendor is going to make a ton of money coming up with a solution for this.
faryl
12/30/2016 5:18:33 PM
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Re: IOT 2017
Well said!
We're only as strong as our weakest link. All the strong passwords in the world don't do much if there's a back door to get in through.
Michelle
12/30/2016 12:38:27 PM
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Re: IOT 2017
@vn Third party access to systems can be a serious issue when your vendor is compromised. I'm not sure if these sort of breaches make the news often, but they certainly happen.
vnewman
12/30/2016 12:34:43 PM
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Re: IOT 2017
And I do hope folks are hyperaware of the issues with allowing systemic access to third-party vendors (IoT Partners) - lest they repeat the same mistake Target made a few years back - handing over the keys to the castle and leading to a massive data breach. You don't want your "partner" to inadvertedly become your "partner in crime."
Ariella
12/30/2016 10:39:10 AM
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Re: IOT 2017
@faryl agreed, that's kind of how I feel when I see QR codes pasted on everything.
faryl
12/30/2016 12:33:55 AM
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Re: IOT 2017
I bet you're right.
I can also see companies trying to shoehorn IoT technology in areas it's just not necessary just to jump on the bandwagon. Just like not everything needs a hashtag, not everything needs to be connected.
faryl
12/30/2016 12:31:03 AM
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Re: IOT 2017
Yeah, I'd feel better if less companies felt confident - then I'd think at least while many of them may very well be competent, they've got the experience to recognize that it's a bit early to be able to anticipate all the potential variables in play.
The fact that no one seems to be prepared for the idea that media devices could be leveraged for DDoS attacks leads me to believe there are many risk areas that may yet to be even identified or acknowledged.
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