Portnox’s CEO and Co-Founder Ofer Amitai was featured as a guest contributor in Tech Target’s IoT Agenda with an article entitled “Your security appliance is essentially an IoT device”. You can read the full article here.
The article surveys the similarities between security applications and IoT devices in that they are both “simplistic” devices that run software. Therefore, Amitai concludes, security appliances are susceptible to some of the same vulnerabilities as IoT devices – such as acting as a gateway for network breaches, DDoS, phishing and malware attacks, just to name a few. Read the full article here to find out how to secure security appliances so that they aren’t just another vulnerable IoT device on the network.