DDos Attack: A Wake-Up Call for IoT
Ahmed Banafa · River Publishers eBooks · 2022
The concept of IoT introduces a wide range of new security risks and challenges to IoT devices, platforms and operating systems, communications and even the systems to which they are connected. The deployment of IoT is far outpacing any other networked system. If the IoT devices are poorly secured, cyber attackers will use them as entry points to cause harm to other devices in the network. The possibility of tracking and surveillance of people by government and private agencies increases as the devices are constantly connected to the Internet. In an ideal environment, information exchange should take place between all the interconnected IoT devices. IoT provides a great platform to enable social development in varied societies across the world, the proliferation of Internet across the various sections of the society in developing countries coupled with lowering costs of microprocessors and sensors will make IoT devices accessible to low-income households.