Editor’s Note: This blog originally appeared on Nuance’s website
It doesn’t take much more than a quick glance at the news to realize that cybersecurity is a top priority for companies today.
Worse, the cause for concern is growing. According to research conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers in its Global State of Information Security Survey companies detected 38 percent more security threats in 2015 than they did in 2014.
According to a recent CIO article, this is in part because the number of vulnerabilities and entry points that can be used to access networks is rising, thanks to the Internet of Things (IoT) trend. With IoT, an increasing amount of devices are now designed to connect to the Internet and communicate beyond network perimeters. These devices – things that include printers, scanners, and MFPs – represent new entry points that adversaries can use to access your network.
Not surprisingly, IoT security risk is also on the rise. The same CIO article cites research from Gartner that estimates that the number of connected “things” will hit 4.9 billion this year and 25 billion by 2020. This is a lot of devices – and a lot of security risk.
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