As many as 82% of organizations are unable to identify all the devices connected to their network, according to a Forrester study. 77% of companies admit that increased usage of IoT devices creates significant security challenges. Gartner predicts more than 20 billion connected things will be in use by 2020, up from 11 billion this year. Were already seeing a marked increase in botnets where IoT devices are taken over and used in everything from volumetric and brute force attacks to spam and data exfiltration.”]
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