Connected Device Security Gets Wider Attention

To that end, just last week, an announcement through the World Economic Forum’s Council of the Connected World, leaders from Consumers International, the Cybersecurity Tech Accord and I Am the Cavalry, representing over 400 organizations globally, collaborated to recognize an emerging consensus on baseline cyber security provisions for consumer IoT devices. They issued a joint statement that specifies five basic consumer IoT device security that governments around the world should encourage device manufacturers to promote and standardize as a global baseline: (1) No universal default passwords; (2) Implementing a vulnerability disclosure policy; (3) Keeping software updated; (4) Securely communicating; and (5) Ensuring that personal data is secure.