Many tech giants have recently made a big push in wearable items.
Many tech giants have recently made a big push in wearable items – from watches with integrated cellphones, to smart glasses that can record what we see in day-to-day life. Yet, many of these seemingly harmless items are raising security concerns.
Paul Martini, co-founder and CEO of iboss, says that it’s through a device’s ability to interact with the outside world that those security concerns come into place. “For example, if Google Glass did not have the ability to record video, there would be no worry that sensitive data within an organization could be recorded and lost,” he says. “If a smart watch did not have a microphone, there would be no worry that confidential information could be audio-recorded and transferred outside the network. So, by looking at these devices’ abilities to interact with the analog world around them, we can begin to assess the challenges of applying appropriate security measures to protect valuable assets and information.”