Inside Secure forecasts increased security needs as the IoT market continues to grow

The IoT will become an ever more fertile attack surface for governments, cybercriminals, “hacktivists” and even terrorists. As IoT creates many new – and potentially more harmful, even lethal – security threats, hackers will exploit IoT vulnerabilities not only for political or financial gains, but also for thrill seeking, technical hubris and moral reasons by targeting companies they believe are negligent or doing wrong. A series of high-profile car hijackings in the summer of 2015 opened the eyes of consumers and device manufacturers to the dangers of IoT. But this is just the tip of the iceberg ¬– many IoT devices can become a potentially lethal weapon if hacked ¬– and in 2016 we will see the number and complexity of threats to IoT device users increase.