Governments are urged to play a larger role in setting standards, monitoring compliance, and rolling out solutions across IoT networks and companies to prevent a large-scale internet disaster. There is increasing concern that the Internet of Things (IoT) could give hackers the ability to affect the physical world, whereby attacks on data could become attacks on people or property. The report also recommends governments consider how they can better protect their citizens from cyber attacks, including by improving cybersecurity education for all citizens.
Governments are urged to play a larger role in setting standards, monitoring compliance, and rolling out solutions across IoT networks and companies to prevent a large-scale internet disaster. There is increasing concern that the Internet of Things (IoT) could give hackers the ability to affect the physical world, whereby attacks on data could become attacks on people or property. The risks come primarily from the difficulties in performing IoT security updates; the sheer volume of system interconnections; and the increasing autonomy of computer systems.