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How Amazon and Walmart Could Fix IoT Security

Bruce Schneier Says Pressure on Retailers Could Fix Insecure IoT Supply Chains

  • Jeremy Kirk
  • Data Breach Today
  • June 26, 2020

IoT devices can be made cheaply and quickly. But as a result, they may lack adequate security features.

There’s been a global effort by countries, standards organizations and corporations to improve the state of IoT security through voluntary baseline standards. Connected devices suffer from a range of issues, including insecure default configurations when they’re sold as well as inconsistent patching by vendors.

But an IoT device isn’t just one product. It’s an assembly of components that come from a variety of manufacturers made in a variety of places. A security problem could be rooted in any of those components…

Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.