IoT systems connect sensors and control networks, so device identity, secure updates, data protection, and reliable operation support safety and availability.
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Internet of Things (IoT) comprises physical devices—such as sensors, cameras, appliances, vehicles, medical equipment, and industrial controllers—that collect data, perform actions, and communicate with other devices or cloud services. Its distinctive assets include telemetry, control functions, device identities, and sometimes sensitive location, health, or operational data. Availability and integrity can be safety- or production-critical, while many devices have limited processing capacity, long service lives, and constrained maintenance access.
Security depends on the complete device lifecycle: maintain an accurate inventory, replace default credentials with unique authentication, verify firmware and provide signed, supportable updates, and restrict management interfaces through network segmentation. Exposed services, insecure update mechanisms, weak device-to-cloud APIs, physical access, and third-party components can enable unauthorized monitoring or control, compromise other systems, or conscript devices into attacks. Privacy protections should limit collection and access to telemetry, and monitoring should support detection and safe isolation without disrupting essential operations.
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Company to pursue full separation of IoT and cybersecurity business units.
Board and incoming CEO decide reorganizing is better than splitting BlackBerry has decided its plan to split into two separate companies is not a good idea and will instead reorganize itself into two independent divisions.…
Dashevskyi and La Spina of Forescout Technologies on IoT and OT Security PracticesPrevious studies on IoT and OT devices have primarily focused on internal components, neglecting open-source components that are crucial for internet and network connectivity, according to Stanislav Dashevskyi and Francesco La Spina, security researchers at Forescout Technologies.
Subsidiary IPO Canceled in Announcement, Naming John Giamatteo as CEOBlackBerry reversed plans for an equity carve-out of its internet of things business in a Monday announcement of plans to instead make its cybersecurity and IoT units independently operated entities. The Canadian firm also selected company insider John Giamatteo as its new CEO.