In our last post, we talked about the rise in popularity of chat bots and how BOHH supports the security of them. For this week’s installment, we will take a look at the state of security for the Internet of Things (IoT) and how BOHH Labs’ approach brings more confidence to keeping these devices secure.
Market analysts predict dramatic growth in the adoption of enterprise cloud services incorporating IoT technologies. In fact, Gartner predicts that more than half of major new business processes and systems will incorporate some element of the IoT by 2020.
However, the world has already witnessed some of the consequences to the growing adoption of IoT with the likes of the infamous Mirai botnet that took down major companies including Twitter, Amazon, PayPal and Netflix and off the Internet.
While this trend continues to gain popularity in updating companies’ strategies, the IoT industry continues to be a top challenge for security professionals and keeping those devices and networks safe.
Some of the major challenges companies are faced with by integrating IoT applications include:
- Many IoT products are designed with convenience in mind and don’t have the proper security measures built in place at the design level/product development, leaving them insecure from the start.
- IoT devices often come with old or unpatched operating systems. Additionally, these systems often need frequent software updates to patch for vulnerabilities, and if users do not complete these, it opens the devices to risks.
- Most IoT devices come with a default password that users don’t often change, making it easier for cybercriminals to hack these devices and easily hop on to a company’s network that the user is trying to connect with.
- IoT devices communicate with your network, as well as multiple other outside systems and networks companies don’t have control over. This throws open the door to malicious attacks directly on the enterprise databases and applications accessed by these services.
Although the security industry has been talking about how to secure IoT devices for years now, there are still too many backdoors and insecure devices being used today. Unfortunately, with the rise in IoT networks, comes the rise of security threats and questions about who is really at the other end of the connection.
Companies’ digital strategies should not come at the expense of security. At BOHH, we support the use of IoT devices, while keeping the enterprise network safe by enabling a secure flow of all data traffic between these devices and the end enterprise services.
We help enterprise networks stay better protected against attacks open by IoT services by managing the whole data transaction process and working natively with the IoT devices to secure the messages that are passed back and forth between the requestor and the responder. Our approach separates out the requestor from the request and securely allows, after AI validation, the request to navigate to whatever end-point is required. This leaves the requestor waiting until the response has been collected and checked before moving it forward and returning the request to the requestor.
Unlike other security approaches, our approach prevents a request in to the network without being validated before gaining authorized access to a backend system or application. This approach enables BOHH to separate, recognize and maintain a secure connection to all relevant enterprise systems (i.e. the many different IoT devices and systems they connect with) and prevents any third parties from trying to hop on (piggyback onto) the connection and get to the backend database/application.
The use of IoT is here to stay, and is only predicted to grow, so it is more important than ever that new security is applied to securing enterprise networks to keep pace with innovation in enterprise IoT services.
Now that we’ve highlighted how BOHH helps enhance IoT security, check back in next Tuesday when we take a look at some of the most popular past breaches and how BOHH could have helped.
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