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With the advent of IoT, organizations need to concentrate on exploiting vulnerabilities in seemingly minor devices in order to obtain the same access. Until these devices are linked to the network, CEOs need to know what they're connecting to and where they're sending traffic.
With the advent of IoT, organizations need to concentrate on exploiting vulnerabilities in seemingly minor devices in order to obtain the same access. Until these devices are linked to the network, CEOs need to know what they're connecting to and where they're sending traffic.
The first major challenge is security concerns. Even though IoT is more secure than the average internet or LAN connection, still it is not as bulletproofs as most users would expect. Not only is the data stored prone to hacking and alterations but the devices in the system are in danger as well. Bad people can access other people information and devices and misuse them thus completely ruining their IoT experience. For instance, nowadays, you are required to set up an online profile to be able to log into most sites, from google, to you tube to Quora, Instagram, and Facebook and so on. Who knows what these online companies use your personal information to do? For all we know maybe our televisions extract data from us while we watch our favorite shows and sends it to media houses.
The second major challenge is data privacy concerns. IoT utilizes several identification technologies for objects. They include RFID and 2D- barcodes. Interestingly, each object used daily carries these identification tags. It becomes quite difficult to control who has access to data and who doesn’t. Think of the explanation I gave above about having to create an online profile each time you want to log onto and online platform. Or when you provide your health details to your hospital, you don’t know who is going to access that information and what they are going to do with it.
To ensure that your company and its infrastructure are protected, a CEO for an organizations should ensure a need to ensure that their staff comply with the appropriate security protocols and follow the requisite procedures for the use of IoT devices on enterprise networks. Other common-sense practices for compliance could include the use of efficient password protection, including multi-factor authentication, as well as promoting the use of strong and unique passwords.
