IoT, cloud computing, nation-state threats redefining enterprise security, panelists say

Grazed from PCWorld. Author: Fred O’Conner.

A printer that connects to the Web may pose as great a risk to enterprise security as an OS vulnerability, but yet companies worry about the latter and too often ignore the former, said a CTO during a discussion at MIT. With more devices gaining Web connectivity as part of the Internet of Things movement, hackers have greater opportunities to exploit weaknesses, said Patrick Gilmore, CTO of data-center and telecommunications service provider the Markley Group.

The people who write software for printers may not be worried about security, he said. “No one talks about what if your printer is hacked and every document your CEO printed is posted to a blog,” he said. The session, part of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan CIO Symposium Wednesday, covered a range of security issues, including cloud computing, emerging threats and data security…

Companies using cloud services should review what conditions would allow a provider to cut off a customer’s service, said Rob May, CEO and co-founder of Backupify, which backs up data stored in cloud applications to a separate cloud system…

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