A recent DDoS incident whereby campus-wide connected devices including vending machines and streetlamps were used as bots to slow down the university’s network again underscored the importance of cybersecurity in the IoT age.
With Gartner predicting 20.4 billion devices to be online by 2020, the Internet of Things isn’t going away, and in many ways IoT and the data they generate have indeed made our lives better and smarter. But with it come challenges as well, the biggest of which is probably the issue of cybersecurity.
Already we’ve heard about the DDoS attack last October, when IoT devices including network cameras and NVRs were infected with the so-called Mirai malware. The devices then became an army of attackers that launched a series of DDoS attacks against Dyn, an Internet performance management company. The result was a shutdown of service across various websites including Netflix and Amazon.com.
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