Requiring Federal agencies to buy IOT devices meeting a minimum security standard creates a market for secure IOT that didn't previously exist.
And now when the Chinese know that the guys in Cheyenne Mountain prefer the temperature to stay between 74 and 78F, they at least won't know which guy keeps setting it to 84.
And requiring that companies' production/perimeter environments employ devices that must meet that standard before cybersecurity insurance providers will cover them, helps cover the private sector side of that coin [theonion.com].
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Requiring Federal agencies to buy IOT devices meeting a minimum security standard creates a market for secure IOT that didn't previously exist.
And now when the Chinese know that the guys in Cheyenne Mountain prefer the temperature to stay between 74 and 78F, they at least won't know which guy keeps setting it to 84.
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won't know which guy keeps setting it to 84.
The old geezer [wp.com], obviously.
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won't know which guy keeps setting it to 84.
The old geezer [wp.com], obviously.
If the choice is between the old geezer and the stupid geezer [wordpress.com] I'l pick the old one ever time.
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And requiring that companies' production/perimeter environments employ devices that must meet that standard before cybersecurity insurance providers will cover them, helps cover the private sector side of that coin [theonion.com].
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The market for secure IoT devices DOES exist. It's just not the dumb consumer market. Industrial IoT needs security.