The dark webs criminal minds see Internet of Things as next big hacking prize
Summary
"What I wish is that the vulnerabilities of cybersecurity could never negatively affect human life and infrastructure," says Meredith Schnur, cyber brokerage leader for US & Canada at Marsh & McLennan, which insures large companies against cyberattacks. There are a handful of companies, new regulatory approaches, a growing focus on cars as a particularly important area, and a new movement within the software engineering world to do a better job of incorporating cybersecurity from the beginning. But one of the key problems in Internet of Things security is that there isnt a good process for updating devices with patches, as new vulnerabilities, hacks or attacks are discovered, says Greg Clark, former CEO of Symantec, currently the chairman of Forescout. "Im hopeful there will be some new standards, and newer regulations that will force the vendors to do more," says Randy Trzeciak, director of the science information and security policy & management program at Carnegie Mellon University. Cybersecurity grew as an industry mostly as an after-the-fact attempt to fix software and hardware that was long since on the market, as criminals and foreign governments discovered vulnerabilities in the systems that they could exploit.