Best Practice Report

Best Practices: Securing IoT Deployments

Addressing The Most Common IoT Security Threats

October 11th, 2017
Merritt Maxim, VP, Research Director
Merritt Maxim VP, Research Director
With contributors:
Stephanie Balaouras , Madeline Cyr , Salvatore Schiano , Peggy Dostie

Summary

IoT technology has the potential to improve customer outcomes and deliver significant business benefits. However, the highly interconnected nature of IoT deployments, coupled with their scale and diverse hardware, introduces a new spectrum of security problems that could lead to large data breaches or other consequences. This report provides perspectives on the key IoT security vulnerabilities and offers security pros recommendations for how they can mitigate cyberattacks and the risk of an IoT data breach.

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