Is IoT Hype For Real?
It is only fitting that the 20th anniversary of the Gartner Hype Cycle has the Internet of Things right at the top of the coaster. IoT is currently at the peak of Inflated Expectations. The Gartner Hype Cycle give organizations an assessment of the maturity, business benefit and future direction of more than 2,000 technologies. The theme for this year's Emerging Technologies Hype Cycle is Digital Business. As you can see, being at the top really means that there is a ton of media coverage about the technology, so much so that it starts to get a little silly. Everyone is talking about it, including this author. What you can also so is the downward trend to follow. This is the trough of disillusionment. Gamification, Mobile Health Monitoring and Big Data all fall into this area. It means that they already hit their big hype point but doesn't necessarily mean that it's over. The slope of enlightenment shows technologies that are finally mature enough to actually have reasonable expectations about. Each of the technologies also have a time line of when it'll mature. For IoT, it looks like 5 to 10 years. So while we're hearing all the noise about IoT now, society probably won't be fully immersed for another decade...even though we'll see gradual steps toward it over the next few years. Once all our people, places and things are connected, you can also get a sense of what else is coming in the Innovation Trigger area. Come the 2025 time frame, things like Smart Robots, Human Augmentation and a Brain Computer Interface could be the headlines of the day. Just imagine, instead of having to type this blog out on a keyboard, I could simply (and wirelessly) connect my brain chip to the computer and just think this. Hey, Stop reading my mind!! ps Related: Gartner's 2014 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies Maps the Journey to Digital Business Chart of the Week: The hype cycle of emerging technologies The Internet of Things and DNS F5 Predicts: Internet of Things Drives Demand for 'Social Intelligence' Internet of Things OWASP Top 10 The Icebox Cometh Technorati Tags: iot,things,sensors,nouns,gartner,hypecycle,media,silva,f5Internet of Things OWASP Top 10
The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is focused on improving the security of software. Their mission is to make software security visible, so that individuals and organizations worldwide can make informed decisions about true software security risks and their OWASP Top 10 provides a list of the 10 Most Critical Security Risks. For each risk it provides a description, example vulnerabilities, example attacks, guidance on how to avoid and references to OWASP and other related resources. Many of you are familiar with their Top 10 Most Critical Web Application Security Risks. They provide the list for awareness and guidance on some of the critical web applications security areas to address. It is a great list and many security vendors point to it to show the types of attacks that can be mitigated. Now the Internet of Things (IoT) has its own OWASP Top 10. If you've lived under a rock for the past year, IoT or as I like to call it, the Internet of Nouns, is this era where everyday objects - refrigerators, toasters, thermostats, cars, sensors, etc - are connected to the internet and can send and receive data. There have been tons of articles covering IoT over the last 6 months or so, including some of my own. The OWASP Internet of Things (IoT) Top 10 is a project designed to help vendors who are interested in making common appliances and gadgets network/Internet accessible. The project walks through the top ten security problems that are seen with IoT devices, and how to prevent them. The OWASP Internet of Things Top 10 - 2014 is as follows: 1 Insecure Web Interface 2 Insufficient Authentication/Authorization 3 Insecure Network Services 4 Lack of Transport Encryption 5 Privacy Concerns 6 Insecure Cloud Interface 7 Insecure Mobile Interface 8 Insufficient Security Configurability 9 Insecure Software/Firmware 10 Poor Physical Security You can click on each to get a detailed view on the threat agents, attack vectors, security weaknesses, along with the technical and business impacts. They also list any privacy concerns along with example attack scenarios. Good stuff! ps Related: The Icebox Cometh The Applications of Our Lives Standards for 'Things' Securing the Internet of Things: is the web already breaking up? 4 things that will happen in the Internet of Things space in 2014 Tech's brightest unconvinced by internet of things OWASP Internet of Things Top 10 Technorati Tags: iot,things,owasp,security,top10,privacy,silva,f5,nouns Connect with Peter: Connect with F5:
