The growth of the internet of things (IoT) makes this problem exponentially more difficult. Security professionals need to protect an increasingly larger number of entry points while the bad guys just have to find one way in. Every mobile phone, cloud application, branch office and remote employee is an entry point for the bad guy. The rise of IoT devices takes the growth of asymmetry from linear to exponential, placing an urgency on trying to reverse this curve, says John Defterios. He says the current approach with security is not working.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3543073/securing-iot-requires-a-shift-to-a-security-fabric.html