FEATURE : IOT and authorisation mechanisms , as well as roaming and mobility .
Considering security
What are the cybersecurity impacts on IoT in a 5G world ? A big issue is that the IoT devices market isn ’ t regulated and homogeneous . With cheap consumer IoT , there is not a significant demand nor budget for security , and as such , it tends to be somewhat forgotten . However , if we look at medical IoT devices , we can be certain that security is taken very seriously . In addition to that , if we take IIoT devices running in critical industries and used to monitor critical infrastructure , here are a number of security aspects that need to be considered :
• IIoT devices tend to run on constrained hardware with little or no management interface . These devices are often not field-upgradable and may have limited means to determine if they are operating correctly . They often have limited cryptographic functionality
Simon Bryden , Manager Consulting Systems Engineering at Fortinet
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