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In a recent post to LinkedIn Pulse, ForeScout Technologies' CEO, Mike DeCesare explains how the burgeoning Internet of Things (IoT) will bring massive benefits if it is secured correctly.
The rapid proliferation of devices becoming connected to home, corporate and industrial networks in the IoT requires a move away from the traditional methods of providing security through the use of "agent" software installed on each endpoint. IoT devices are predominently "agentless".
In his article, Mike explains that each of these endpoints represents a back door into the wider network to which it's attached, providing advantages to those who want to infiltrate it. Such assymetry in the cyber security battlefield introduces massive challenges to IT security professionals for keeping one step ahead of cyber criminals.
As Mike DeCesare explains, "It’s a daunting fight knowing us good guys need to defend every single entrance point to a network and the bad guys only need one single entrance point." However, all is most certainly not lost and the article explains how visibility of these unmanaged endpoints is the first step in maintaining control of a network's security and ensuring the IoT gives all the benefits it promises without letting the criminals in.
Read "An Asymmetrical Battlefield" on LinkedIn
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