It's a brand new year and this January has been an
interesting one. On the technology front, CES brought us a glimpse
of some fascinating new consumer products – personal
assistants, robots, drones, new cameras and phones and a big focus
on the Internet of Things.
When we IT pros – especially those who specialize in
security – think about IoT, though, our first thoughts are
about the software running all those connected "smart
things," the vulnerabilities that are sure to be lurking
therein, and whether and how we'll be able to keep them all
patched and prevent them from posing a major threat to our
networks.
But that's a problem for another day and a different blog
post. Luckily, unlike some of the startups making these exciting
new IoT devices, the venerable software vendors who produce the
computer and mobile operating systems and applications we've
been relying upon for years are very cognizant of the importance of
security.
