Your next home will be connected in creepy ways. It will take a while, but eventually every machine and device in your house will talk to everything else, and Consumer Electronic Show (CES)-born inspiration will be at their roots. From e-toothbrushes to connected e-toilets that can detect a health issue (Really!), the items in your home will be controlled via the internet and will be everywhere. But what does that mean for security?
Some powerhouses in the industry, the kind with the huge CES booths and budgets, have started ramping up security in their connected products. But around the back corners of the digital exhibit halls where the next aspiring hot startup is located? Don’t count on it. The problem is, time-to-market often trumps security, so safeguards get pushed aside with the promise that future firmware updates might address those issues someday. Or not. Anyone got a ten-year-old router that still works fine but is full of holes? Yeah, that.