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Schneier has recently argued that there is a missing market for IOT security in the sense that devices manufacturers have no incentive to patch impose external
by elipsey 7y ago
Schneier has recently argued that there is a missing market for IOT security in the sense that devices manufacturers have no incentive to patch impose external costs on society, and that this might be hard to fix without regulation.
https://www.eweek.com/security/ibm-s-schneier-it-s-time-to-regulate-iot-to-improve-cyber-security https://www.eweek.com/security/ibm-s-schneier-it-s-time-to-r...
- silvr 7y agoAlso - his recent book "Click Here to Kill Everybody" discusses the problem of IoT security in depth (ie. that the lack of it will risk increasingly dire consequences). One of his solutions is regulatory: a new federal agency for consumer cybersecurity. One of the particular things he would want mandated is that IoT devices be patchable, at a minimum.
- LilBytes 7y agoCanonical's pushing for a change in this space with their own embedded IoT OS. https://techerati.com/news-hub/canonical-releases-ubuntu-core-18-os-for-iot-devices/ https://techerati.com/news-hub/canonical-releases-ubuntu-cor...