By 2020, 50 Billion Devices Will Be Vulnerable to Cyberattacks
By 2020, there will be 50 billion Internet-connected devices in use, and each one will provide an entry point for hackers.
In addition, according to Jason Porter, VP Security Solutions for AT&T, which handles about a third of U.S. Internet, mobile and video-viewing traffic, there was a 62 percent increase in the number of times distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks occurred over the past 2 years, as well as a dramatic 458-percent increase in the number of times hackers searched for IoT vulnerabilities. In its Cybersecurity Insights Report, AT&T predicts the following events that will begin to occur or continue in 2016.