VIDEO INTERVIEW: The absence of standards for the Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the many challenges facing the industry in securing today’s networks, warned Jaya Baloo, chief information and security officer at operator KPN.
Speaking to Mobile World Live at the GSMA’s Mobile 360 Privacy and Security event in The Hague recently, Baloo said it was getting to a stage where operators do not know “what normal looks like” when it comes to traffic on their network, which means blocking something unsecure or abnormal is becoming even more of a challenge.
She argued that the industry is now “building new technologies with old vulnerabilities”, and many of the challenges arising “are things we should already know about”.
“We are talking about the use of default passwords, we are talking about privilege escalation and inappropriate mechanisms for just regular coding,” she said. “There’s a lot of stuff for IoT that we should have solved before we built the product.”
In the interview, Baloo also said there was an increasing need to raise awareness among users over growing threats to their security, when it comes to connected devices.
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