Increased connectivity for devices means expanded attack surfaces. The challenge, Silvers said at an Aug. 31 National Institute of Standards and Technology meeting, is developing flexible, living security standards while preserving the innovation and productivity gains that come with increased internet.
“I think we all recognize the IoT is not a trend, it’s a full-blown phenomenon at this point,” he said. “We have, as against that enormous security challenge, a very narrow and closing window in which to address the security challenges on the front end before we are put in the much more difficult, much less enviable position of addressing security against an ecosystem that is already stood up, functioning and created.”
