Beware when you log on to your sexy new IoT device – phone, tablet, smart TV, speaker or fridge – because an uninvited guest could well be joining you. Even everyday mundane activities can make you visible for an unforeseen attack!
The Dome-for-Home is a self-provisioned sensor that protects and controls the home WiFi network, allowing corporate IT to secure and manage the remote working environment as if it were part of the corporate network.
Mark Hubbard and Craig Shaw from MAPS Wireless talk about the company’s Dome for Home, a small sensor installed alongside a remote homeworker’s router that checks for anomalies and cyberthreats.
A tall order when you consider that individuals may be using both company provided and personal devices over unsecured wifi networks. And, as if to compound the problem, hackers have stepped up their schemes and scams to get personal information and sensitive data from largely unsuspecting ‘non -IT savvy’ users.
The UK is now in grip of the biggest remote working experiment in history and what was unthinkable only weeks ago is now the next normal. But such new ways of working are creating huge security problems for companies as never before.
As a CIO or CISO, when you consider your workforce once did their job on-premise and now do it in the cloud – that is quite a change you have had forced upon you.
Without doubt the UK is now in the midst of the biggest remote working experiment in history. What was unthinkable only weeks ago, is now the next normal.
Attackers could exploit one of the many devices you have attached to your home wifi. Most of us have a wifi printer, an Amazon Echo or a Google Home, even wifi connected cameras and these wifi devices have vulnerabilities which a hacker could use.