Internet of Things users need to become sysadmins, America's Federal Bureau of Investigation says.
That's a summary of the Feds' blog post, published this week, in which the agency's Beth Anne Steele wrote that Things are best deployed on their own network, with an off-switch.
Steele's post offered a checklist explaining how consumers can best secure their stuff, including a suggestion to: "Isolate 'IoT' devices on their own protected networks" – which means you'll want a firewall between your broadband modem and the switch that connects the devices.
The checklist might reach beyond the capabilities of the average IoT buyer, who just wants to swipe the phone app to control their lights (because the wall is so far away), but on its own, that's a point worth making. So here's the full list, with El Reg commentary.
"Change default usernames and passwords?" Brain shutting down. Too. Much. Techno-babble.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 15 2017, @04:55AM (3 children)
That will be easy, I'm not buying any IoT devices...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 15 2017, @05:21AM
Millions and millions of other people will buy IoT devices. Those devices, if deployed unsecured, could cause havoc on the internet for you and me.
(Score: 2) by legont on Friday December 15 2017, @08:17PM (1 child)
Do you plan to drive a donkey?
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Saturday December 16 2017, @12:32AM
Might be a while before we get Self-driving bikes...