Five fundamentals of security in the internet of things era

The sad truth is that many consumers now find themselves asking the same questions that security researchers asked many years ago: What do we trust, who can we trust, and why should we automatically trust anything, regardless how familiar or benign it looks? 

With an estimated 6.4 billion devices already in circulation, we’re almost to the point where there’s an Internet of Things (IoT) device for every person on the planet. By 2020, devices will outnumber us by almost three-to-one. While we’re still working on securing desktops, laptops, servers, phones and tablets, we must start applying those same standards of trust to the smaller (and sometimes larger) devices that don’t seem as dangerous.