Tools to tighten the Internet of Things
The Internet of Things (IoT) is coming, and there’s no doubting its potential. Government IT managers don’t care that your fridge can tell your smartphone what you need to buy next, but they do appreciate that advances in connectivity and data collection will enable major improvements to services that government provides citizens.
Those improvements will come from linking the embedded computing systems that drive much of the country’s infrastructure and that outnumber the more familiar servers, PCs and laptops many times over. With the IoT, systems will become even more numerous and capable, and that’s one of the key factors in the growth of Smart Cities. But it poses a massive security problem.