Our digital society , including its digital industry , is becoming increasingly dependent on information and communication technologies and this is amplified by the introduction and uncontrolled proliferation of Internet-of-Things technologies that do not only make our lives easier, but also introduce massive new cyber security threats
The digitalization of our society and our economy has led to a dependency on information and communication technologies and thus to serious risks related to our cyber security . Until recently risks were, in general, restricted to information security, network security and application security ensuring the confidentiality, the availability and the integrity of data, but with the Internet-of-Things (IoT) we are seamlessly connecting the cyber and the physical worlds extending the risk area to safety requiri
IoT is turning out to be one of the weakest spots in our infrastructure. With billions and in the near future potentially trillions of devices, the security risks are growing at great rates. Our economic and societal forces are creating a perfect storm , a pervasive infrastructure of trillions of IoT devices which on one hand will oversee our lives and economy, and on the other hand will be completely unmanageable from a security perspective . To compound the risk, IoT systems are often devised and engineer