Corporate IoT - a path to intrusion [telecom]

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Corporate IoT - a path to intrusion

Several sources estimate that by the year 2020 some 50 billion IoT devices will be deployed worldwide. IoT devices are purposefully designed to connect to a network and many are simply connected to the internet with little management or oversight. Such devices still must be identifiable, maintained, and monitored by security teams, especially in large complex enterprises. Some IoT devices may even communicate basic telemetry back to the device manufac- turer or have means to receive software updates. In most cases however, the customers' IT operation centers don't know they exist on the network.