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IoT & Cyber Security - Risks Associated with a Virtualized Perimeter...

The explosive growth of IoT devices at every level, is redefining the "perimeter" from a cyber security perspective and threatening to upset the norms of a secure enterprise.  Every IoT device is now an "end point" in a network, and hence, a potential new source of vulnerabilities.  With billions of these devices in place - growing to tens of billions over the next five years - the threat is scaling rapidly, requiring us to think, and rethink, about how these increasingly essential devices our integrated into, and secured in, our networks...

According to the Nokia Threat Intelligence Report 2020, IoT devices recently were responsible for 33 percent of all infections observed in mobile networks, double the percentage in 2019. In large part, cybercriminals doubled down on security weaknesses amid the Covid-19 pandemic in an aggressive move to steal personal data.

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