Handling Insecure Technology : Security And Convenience Are Often The Two Factors That People Consider When Buying New Technology

While IoT devices holds much promise, there are still many security issues that need to be addressed. These security issues can have a significant impact on everyday life, such as causing damage, disruption to business operations, and in some cases even loss of life. Having all your devices interconnected using IoT such as lighting, thermostats, doors, and elevators, seems convenient but in fact this poses a great security risk. If these risks are exploited it could disrupt power or lighting which could lead to a loss of life if it were something like a hospital. Addressing these security risks will lead to more efficient and safer to use IoT devices but companies will have to identify them in their devices first (Tankard, 2015).

The purpose of this study will be to develop adequate security strategies and best practices as a guide to add to the knowledge base of current literature on IoT devices. The current research literature on the internet of things indicates that the number of attacks against IoT devices are on the rise. The number of potential attackers is growing at an alarming rate because of the number of IoT devices that are joined to network every day (Abomhara and Kien, 2015). Tools are available to those same potential attackers are much more sophisticated that they have ever been. (p. 66). This study will provide valuable information to IT leaders, service providers, vendors and IoT manufactures.

Have we sold our privacy for convenience? Smart refrigerators snap pictures of their innards, letting us know it’s time to buy milk … while we shop. On a chilly winter’s day shopping, we text home telling our connected thermostat and coffeemaker to welcome us back to a warm home, and hot cup of java. Our internet equipped car navigates our way home while keeping everyone entertained, from which we activate our WiFi enabled Christmas lights, and unlock or WiFi enabled home door locks, shortly before arrival. Once home, we cue up the Xbox and kill some zombies. Later, we update our Facebook status with a smart TV, as we collapse on the couch from a hard day shopping. Any, and all of these members of the, internet of things, can, or do, spy on us. Whether it be a hacker trying to steal from us, a company gathering personal information for profit, or big brother, our interconnected devices of convenience leaves our physical things, and possibly worse, our personal identity, vulnerable. What price have we chosen to pay for these conveniences?

Internet of Things (IoT) are devices that can collect and share data with no human interactions. IoT are machines that connect to other machines. Examples of IoT’s are fitness trackers that report to a smart phone, smart vacuum cleaners that are self- propelled, and Apps for your smart phone that can adjust lighting, temperature or security features at your house when you are away.

Manufacturers and data operators have the responsibility to store highly sensitive and confidential data associated with their customers (installers or end-users) and business partners. It will need to consider how these new devices connected to the IoT will maintain the integrity of the information stored or exchanged with their partners. Risks to data protection and privacy should include espionage potential for other users, the data transmitted from one device over the network by the fraudster masquerading as client device, or network ID, and information supplied

Internet of Things is a new technology that delivers communication among billions of smart devices via the Internet such as smart car, vending machine, smart house, health system and business system, etc. Nearly 50 billion devises and sensors will be connected to the Internet by 2020 and most of them will perform their duties without having security. In addition, the critical mission of a massive interconnected devices are security and interoperability. Hackers will use more complex tools and techniques to breach the network system. Hence, companies should establish strong security countermeasures and the best approach to provide superlative is security by deploying multilayer security method which is called defense in depth. Defense in depth is considered as a vital part for securing the Internet of Things because defense in depth eludes a system from facing single point of failure. This paper discusses the seven core layers of defense in depth approaches which are policy, procedures and awareness, application security, data security, physical security, host and server security, network and perimeter security, and wireless security.

Protection and the IoT: Navigating Policy Issues - Opening Remarks of FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez[9], "Today, I might want to concentrate on three key difficulties that, in my perspective, the IoT stances to shopper security: (1) universal information gathering; (2) the potential for sudden employments of customer information that could have unfavorable results; and (3) elevated security dangers. These dangers to protection and security undermine buyer trust. Also, that trust is as critical to the boundless shopper appropriation of new IoT items and administrations as a system association is to the usefulness of an IoT gadget. I accept there are three key steps that organizations ought to take to upgrade shopper protection and security and subsequently construct customer trust in IoT gadgets: (1) embracing "security by configuration"; (2) taking part in information minimization; and (3) expanding straightforwardness and giving purchasers notification and decision for sudden information employments. I trust these strides will be vital to effective IoT plans of action and to the assurance of customer data." This venture needs to accomplish nevertheless objective as expected in both of the base papers consolidated.

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In this essay I will argue that the Internet of Things (IoT) will be the downfall of our privacy. Internet of things is the anticipated future! A future where everyone has dozens of very small, very low-power devices with CPUs, sensors and radios. This leaves room for a lot of interesting work to be done, but nobody seems to have asked the question "Do we really want an Internet of

The topic we chose to analyze in this research paper is information systems security. More specifically, we examined the security of the Internet of Things. The Internet of Things is an ever-growing avenue of technology that is constantly improving in connectivity and user-friendly interactions. IoT is defined by Forbes writer Jacob Morgan (2014) as “the concept of basically connecting any device with an on and off switch to the Internet (and/or to each other). This [including] … cell phones, coffee makers, washing machines, headphones, lamps, … and almost anything else you can think of”. In other words, IoT is the glue that holds the world of technology together. Within this field we have developed a compelling thesis question. Its answer could help propel this market into the future: What can be done to improve the security of the Internet of Things in the home? This question is pivotal as the home is one of the most cherished yet vulnerable possessions a person has. The IoT of any given home may contain harmless things, such as grocery lists, family photos, or calendar events, but it can also contain sensitive data that, if stolen by a hacker, could tear a household apart. This includes social security numbers, credit card numbers, and bank account information. Because this information is so important and in need of protection, the greatest possible effort must be put forward to protect it. It is virtually impossible to completely prevent hacking in all

The Internet of Things, or as many people like to call it IoT, is a wide growing industry with technology that is advancing each and every day. Physical objects are becoming mapped with technology that us humans will eventually come in contact with and interact over the internet. The Information Technology world feeds off of this industry because the internet is storing this data that we use, and the IT industry just comprehends it. With more physical objects being mapped in the real world, the IT industry will need more people to help control all of the systems and data that is being used. An example of this is if a company lacked a certain product then that problem would be reported to the company and further deliveries would be conducted (Weber, Pg. 23) This fast growing industry is remarkable, and the developments of the legal, social, ethical, and security, can be just as astounding.

The field is of developing significance because of the expanding dependence of PC frameworks in most societies. Computer frameworks now incorporate a wide assortment of "keen" gadgets, including cell phones, TVs and little gadgets as a major aspect of the Internet of Things – and systems incorporate the Internet and private information systems, as well as Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and different remote system.

Internet of Things (IoT): With many more devices in use in the enterprise, many of which IT may not be aware of, there are many security vulnerabilities that are added to

Abstract: The presence of smart things around us is growing rapidly. The world as we speak now is filled with crores of smart things, collecting rich amount of data. This paper is a general survey of all the security issues existing in the Internet of Things (IoT) along with an analysis of the privacy issues that an end-user may face as a consequence of the spread of IoT. The survey is mostly focused on the security loopholes arising out of the information exchange technologies used in Internet of Things. Countermeasures are discussed for only some of these security drawbacks in this paper.

With the click of a button or a tap on a screen, you can discover profound knowledge, it navigates you to where you need to go, or it even tells you miscellaneous things such as which place to go to get the best pumpkin spice latte. The Internet of things has significantly impacted everyday lives and continues to develop throughout generations. It refers to pertinent things such as the ever-growing networks of everyday physical objects, and other internet-enabled systems and devices which process and analyze large and fast-moving data set along each other. To sum it up, the internet of things is a fast growing network of materials where everything is synced and can collect as well as exchange data using sensors that are embedded in devices. Although individuals believe that the Internet of Things (IoT) consequently, will strip every one of privacy and security, the internet of things ought to be utilized in society as it positively transforms the way you live and relate to our environment to make it more productive and useful for us.