By, Mitch Muro, Product Marketing Manager
Can 2020 just be over yet?! I mean, come on. Not only have we been struck with one of the most sophisticated and severe attacks seen to date (which of course is the Generation V SolarWinds Sunburst Attack), but cyber criminals are even taking advantage of the increase in remote workers due to the coronavirus, by increasing their attacks on IoT devices.
Fortunately, and unfortunately, the IoT environment is filled with a vast diversity of IoT devices – and they each have their own proprietary communication protocols that are typically unrecognizable to traditional security gateways. Let’s think about it for a second. These devices are usually built to sell on the sole purpose of convenience, they’re not built with security as the top priority. This puts every organization that uses IoT devices at risk of a highly damaging cyber attack, including the industries our world relies on to churn – Healthcare, Industrial, and Enterprise.
But before you leave and join in on that fun, I wanted to leave you with some best practices so you can start the process of protecting your IoT Devices and Network from such attacks. Invest in solutions that help to:
- Prevent unauthorized access and malicious intent from ever reaching IoT devices in the first place
- Identify and expose already infected devices through discovery and risk analysis
- Automatically create policies to control and secure IoT devices (and the entire ecosystem) with a user-friendly management dashboard
Register here to learn how Check Point has successfully manage to achieve all of the aforementioned practices, and how you can protect your organization with ease.