The Internet of Things (IoT) is a boom which has come with the ongoing industrial progress and revolution offering something inexpensive and suitable to everyone, but yet quite unreliable and unsecure which has triggered a novel group of the concerns in accordance with a wellbeing of those using such a gird and letting themselves be exposed to a serious threat.
Developing an IoT project is, from an engineering point of view, pretty obtainable and even communities across the globe which deal with an assembly industry might make such a technical system remaining competitive at a national, regional or even international stage. In other words, today it is possible mastering such a technology and many being in business can expect a good return of investments (ROI) if they give some money for an IoT project.
Even if some theory of the fear regarding an IoT solution is present in the world the companies’ race for a profit will not be shaken as those being on the marketplace will always do anything to stay positioned in an overall competition not paying a lot of the attention to creeps coming from those who advocate safety and security, so far. The fact with the IoT technologies is they rely on a web connectivity in order to govern interconnected devices communicating with each other and as it is well-known, the internet is a critical infrastructure which provides an access to many literally getting them exposed to any kind of the high-tech operations that can affect the entire objects and their networks.
Indeed, if it is coped with a security challenge, a logical thought could be how such a risk could be avoided or mitigated giving new sorts of the requirements to engineering teams worldwide in regard to better assurance of those being the consumers of such products and services which have opened a new question and that is a transition from an unsafe to safe exploitation of the emerging technological ideas and their brainstorming pillars.
At the beginning of any project, it is important to define some initial requirements which might contribute to better quality, reliability and security of the final technological solution that should capture all inner, outer and combined challenges being part of any technical system, so far. The IoT is a paradigm that still needs to be smartly used as those inventing such a technology have been in a search for an answer to the previous engineering challenge and that has been some resources shortage across the world. In other words, at that time the humankind has looked for a response to that challenge equally trying hard to provide something economically suitable which will from a business perspective have a marketplace as cost-effectiveness with the functionality are the main demands of an optimal approach.
About a couple of decades ago, when the IoT has started it was quite obvious that for such a time a well-developed and implied Wi-Fi communication could make a great job which was the fact then, but only after a few years many have become aware that such a digital transformation has a plenty of weaknesses that could affect lives and businesses of a lot of people over the globe.
The current tendency suggests that the IoT is a well-accepted concept nowadays even if there are yet a heap of vulnerabilities with such an opportunity and apart from so with new innovations those barriers could be removed as if it is imagined that an information exchange between devices is sensitive to the hacker’s attacks certainly some of the high-tech defense techniques and tactics could be applied in order to mitigate any threat which is not anyhow annoying as a wheel of the history goes forward and even the modern technologies are just a phase of the development in an overall progress and evolution of the human beings across the planet.
Apparently, one engineering challenge is well-tackled and truly the IoT might offer a plenty of options and from such a reason it should not be excluded like that as it can additionally bring a lot of false positives as its false negatives should be assumed as some concerns being such an expected in a world of math and science and undoubtedly the clever minds which has resolved one engineering challenge will be capable to proceed with the next maybe not in an ongoing generation of the technological development, but more likely with the future collection of talents in an area of science and technology.
The mindful individuals throughout history have always dealt with the rational decisions providing to their environments a true knowledge and in a case of the engineering stuffs which will literally work and be based on the rigid scientific findings and evidence. Further, a real scientific thought will not hesitate to give an accuracy and those who have left a track in an arena of the math and science have always avoided all those oversufficient speculations which might destroy the beauties the human mind has created during the time as only if it is coped with the pragmatic facts some dangerous mistakes could be prevented and the world might remain in safe hands as it should be an imperative of some prospective actions.
Indeed, a typical scientist will spend a lot of time thinking hard and once all angles are observed some pieces of knowledge could be taken into consideration and despite to those who must ruin the science will always put some blocks into their right places building the world being known today and if led by ethical principles those community members will always attempt to neutralize any sort of the destruction simply thinking in a fully positive and constructive manner.
Finally, in a sense of the IoT products and services there are yet a lot of open questions which course the world will take in the future and even if there are some engineering challenges at the present those concerns will confidently be overcome tomorrow supporting the entire societies to deal with a less irrationality and put onto a fire the real ratio which will help to those making decisions and keeping directions instead of many to be wise leaders who will cope with the facts, not beliefs.
About The Author
Milica D. Djekic is an Independent Researcher from Subotica, the Republic of Serbia. She received her engineering background from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Belgrade. She writes for some domestic and overseas presses and she is also the author of the books “The Internet of Things: Concept, Applications and Security” and “The Insider’s Threats: Operational, Tactical and Strategic Perspective” being published in 2017 and 2021 respectively with the Lambert Academic Publishing. Milica is also a speaker with the BrightTALK expert’s channel. She is the member of an ASIS International since 2017 and contributor to the Australian Cyber Security Magazine since 2018. Milica’s research efforts are recognized with Computer Emergency Response Team for the European Union (CERT-EU), Censys Press, BU-CERT UK and EASA European Centre for Cybersecurity in Aviation (ECCSA). Her fields of interests are cyber defense, technology and business. Milica is a person with disability.