Gemalto confirmed consumer confidence in the security of things networking equipment

November 10, 2017, Beijing, China - Digital security leader Gemalto (NYSE Euronext NL0000400653 GTO) recently revealed that 90% of consumers lack confidence in the security of Internet of Things devices. More than two-thirds of consumers As well as nearly 80% of the organization, to support the government to participate in Internet security management.

Jason Hart, Chief Technology Officer, Data Protection, Gemalto said:

'Obviously, consumers and businesses attach great importance to the security of things, but the lack of confidence in Internet of Things service providers and equipment manufacturers, that their ability is not enough to ensure the safety of things, let alone to ensure that these devices are generated, stored and transmitted The GDP and other laws and regulations show that the government began to realize that the network attacks on the daily life of the threat and long-term harm, they now need to strengthen the security of things in the business and consumer confidence in the Internet of things before the idea Networking will not be used on a large scale.

The current situation of Internet security

In fact, compared to data leakage (60%) and hacker access to personal information (54%), consumers are mainly worried (from two-thirds of respondents) their equipment is hacked, and this is even more worrying . Although more than half (54%) of consumers have an Internet of Things (average of two), only 14% of consumers think they are very aware of the safety of these devices, which also shows that consumers and businesses security knowledge Education is necessary.

The survey found that, at the level of safe investment, ITA equipment manufacturers and service providers in the Internet of Things equipment security investment accounted for only 11% of the total budget of its Internet of Things research shows that these companies do realize the protection of equipment and its The importance of generating or transmitting data, 50% of the company at the beginning of the design to take into account the security. Two-thirds (67%) of the organization said that encryption will be the main way to protect things networking assets, 62% Encrypted when data is imported into the device, and 59% is encrypted when the data is being delivered. 92% of companies said they have increased their sales or product usage after taking Internet security measures.

Increased support for Internet of Things security regulations

The survey also shows that companies are supporting the relevant laws and regulations to clarify the responsibility for the security (61%) and noncompliance (55%) of the Internet of Things devices and data at all stages. In fact, almost all organizations (96%) and consumers (90%) are looking forward to the government to promote the development of Internet Security regulations.

End-to-end competencies affect partnerships

It is encouraging to note that companies are aware of the need for additional support for Internet of Things technology, and thus turn to partners for help, cloud service providers (52%) and Internet of Things service providers (50%) become preferred. The reason is mainly due to their lack of professional knowledge and skills (47%), or the acceleration of Internet access to the deployment of some help (46%).

While these partnerships will promote business adoption of the Internet of Things, businesses also acknowledge that they do not have complete control over the data collected by IoT products or services because data may migrate among partners and may lose it protection.

Jason Hart also said: 'The lack of understanding of businesses and consumers about the Internet of Things is indeed worrying, a gap that can be exploited by hackers by loopholes in the IoT ecosystem, which includes four groups, consumers , Manufacturers, cloud service providers and third parties are all responsible for protecting data. "Designing Security First is the best way to reduce the risk of disclosure. In addition, IoT devices are the gateway to larger networks and, if not, Protecting is like leaving open your door to hackers, and the Internet of Things will not always give hackers the chance to take advantage of it, only if both parties know how to protect themselves and adopt industry-standard methods. "

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