Security
In the recently published “AlienVault Open Threat Exchange (OTX) Trends Report,” an IoT exploit, or attack that takes advantage of a vulnerability, has emerged among the most-seen exploits. In a recent Gartner survey, almost 20 percent of organizations observed at least one IoT-based attack in the past three years.
No surprise that the research company predicts that IoT security spending is poised to reach $1.5 billion in 2018, up 28 percent from 2017 spending of $1.2 billion, and by 2021 security spending is forecast to reach $3.1 billion, including endpoint security, gateway security and professional services.
IoT security threats and risks are a very big deal.
“In security today, we utilize firewalls and we utilize endpoint software — we’re protecting every endpoint because that’s the logical thing to do,” said Rick Beckers, president and CEO of CloudTech1. “In reality, what we need to do, in general, for the public internet and private networks, is to protect it holistically and at multiple intervals and make it so that it’s not something that we have to install, and therefore maintain at every point of attack.”
Beckers’ contends that AI is the next wave to help solve challenges and will do it at the protocol level.
“Also, cloud security, which is also out there as a whisper in the channel,” he said, referring to the cloud having its own defense built into it.
In the recently published “AlienVault Open Threat Exchange (OTX) Trends Report,” an IoT exploit, or attack that takes advantage of a vulnerability, has emerged among the most-seen exploits. In a recent Gartner survey, almost 20 percent of organizations observed at least one IoT-based attack in the past three years.
No surprise that the research company predicts that IoT security spending is poised to reach $1.5 billion in 2018, up 28 percent from 2017 spending of $1.2 billion, and by 2021 security spending is forecast to reach $3.1 billion, including endpoint security, gateway security and professional services.
IoT security threats and risks are a very big deal.
“In security today, we utilize firewalls and we utilize endpoint software — we’re protecting every endpoint because that’s the logical thing to do,” said Rick Beckers, president and CEO of CloudTech1. “In reality, what we need to do, in general, for the public internet and private networks, is to protect it holistically and at multiple intervals and make it so that it’s not something that we have to install, and therefore maintain at every point of attack.”
Beckers’ contends that AI is the next wave to help solve challenges and will do it at the protocol level.
“Also, cloud security, which is also out there as a whisper in the channel,” he said, referring to the cloud having its own defense built into it.
