No More Secrets
Certification Magazine|October 2016

The Internet of Things thinks you hear it knocking, and it thinks it’s coming in

Jane Leclair
No More Secrets

Things (IoT). For those not familiar with the term, it refers to the connectivity of virtually every modern “smart” device that is being manufactured for the home, office, automobile ... you name it. If it has a “chip” and can access Internet, then it is at least potentially linked to — and sharing information with — all of the other connected devices scattered across the globe.

Much has been written about this evolutionary advance in technology in books, blogs and magazine articles and writers are generally divided into two camps: those who espouse the IoT and all the benefits it brings to society, and, those who warn of its dangers, especially as concerns the security of all those connected “things.”

On the one hand, as Justin Zeefe notes in Cybersecurity in Our Digital Lives, “Increasing the number of connected devices proportionately increases the available attack surface for malicious actors(.)” Tech journalist Cliff Saran expresses the flip side of this cautious proposition in an article for Computer Weekly: “The internet of things will transform everyday life, from managing airports’ passenger flows to heating buildings and caring for the elderly.”

While these two camps debate the positives and negatives of the IoT, what no one seems to be concerned with is its financial ramifications. Who will benefit financially from all the connectivity? And further, as Dr. Ian Malcolm says in Jurassic Park, “Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, that they didn’t stop to think if they should.” Are we obliged to connect every computer-enabled thing to every other computer-enabled thing just because we can?

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