The Internet of Things is a buzzword which is becoming more and more prevalent in todays society. The Equity Kicker expects 33 billion devices connected by 2020 with a large portion of them falling under the IoT umbrella term. The problem facing hardware vendors is that they design a piece of hardware, which likely connects back to cloud servers and then those devices are handed to sub-contractors for manufacturing and eventually their customers. This can add up to a rather large attack surface and, as a business, they potentially have a lot invested in each product.”]
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