IoT Security Concerns within the Enterprise

The Internet of Things (IoT) plays a key role in the monitoring, supply chain, facility management, and manufacturing processes used by many organizations. Even though many IoT deployments are mature, a high number have experienced security breaches that were more costlier than breaches in other parts of the enterprise IT infrastructure. This is partially because the IT and security practices commonly used when deploying a new network device or application were not applied to a number of IoT projects. The result can be security coverage gaps and inconsistencies in or between infrastructure devices, network connections, web applications, and collection and analysis tools.