The IoT is shifting us into yet-another realm where networked devices are again being sold without security designed in. Over on TechCrunch, Mike Gault deconstructs the flaws to past tech boom cycles (ignoring data at rest, crypto strategies that can't scale or be updated, etc.). Rather than trying to shoehorn security into IoT after the fact, Mike Gault writes, we should reexamine how we handle security (and the lifespan) of data, and design to do this.
http://techcrunch.com/2016/05/06/rethinking-security-for-the-internet-of-things/ [techcrunch.com]