For years, experts have warned about the danger of Internet of Thing devices, often built by companies on the cheap with little or no interest in building security into their products. Many of these insecure devices have found their ways into businesses, interacting and exchanging cloud-based information with other parts of the corporate infrastructure.
With the emergence of powerful IoT malware such as Mirai, the bad news predictions are being borne out. The reality is that any connected device provides an attack vector for adversaries.
