IDG Contributor Network: Organizations must isolate IoT from regular IT, says telco
Tracking Internet of Things solutions already implemented, including their vulnerabilities, is among the recommendations made in newly published advice from AT&T.
Almost all (90%) of organizations aren’t convinced that their own IoT solutions are secure, AT&T says it found in an October 2015 survey.
AT&T has since produced advice that says an “all-inclusive” risk assessment must be completed by companies as they shift into IoT implementations. The advice is published in a recent cybersecurity guide (PDF) aimed at CEOs.
Key advice is that IoT deployment should be isolated from the main network, the company says. In other words, IoT data and networks should be inaccessible from the “existing IT systems.” That way “an attacker’s ability to launch broader cyberattacks on mission-critical systems,” can be reduced, AT&T says. AT&T is a mobile data network vendor.
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