IoT Requires New Security, Connectivity Challenges

Tait said the increased digital transformation of the last two years has led to a “proliferation of IoT devices.”

“However, mission critical IoT will adopt SD-WAN to ensure secure and reliable connections,” Tait said.

Anand Oswal, senior vice president and general manager of Palo Alto Networks, agreed that work-from-home employees are using more and more types of IoT devices to do their jobs. And many of those devices came from their own residential technology stack.

“Awareness of these devices and the ability to ensure they are secure will become increasingly more important. The home ‘branch’ will become a place of shared cybersecurity responsibility between the enterprise and its employees,” Oswal said.