Over the past year, campaigns including BadBox 2.0 , Matrix , and LapDogs have been documented compromising tens of millions of connected devices worldwide. There are billions of devices now online and threats are continuing to emerge. It's clear that IoT security is still lagging behind its rapid pace of adoption. There are certainly benefits to this widespread adoption. IoT is enabling real-time, data-driven decision making at a remarkable scale. Applications such as wearable devices, environmental monitoring, remote patient care, and predictive maintenance wouldn’t exist without IoT. Analysts project IoT connections exceeding 40 billion within the next decade, a trend that highlights the need to build security into every layer of the ecosystem. The State of IoT Security Systematic security measures for IoT are only beginning to be widely implemented, driven in large part by emerging regulations and increased demands for security. Historically, ma...