According to Gartner, we can expect more than 20 billion connected IoT devices by 2020. 48 percent of businesses admitted they are unable to detect the devices on their network. Cybercriminals know that IoT connections and devices are easy targets, which is why experts warn that we will see an uptick in the number of specifically targeted attacks in the coming years. Ransomware attacks against the IoT arent the same as the attacks against your internal network. With an attack on a computer or server, ransomware is able to lock down your data directly.”]