2016 IEEE Winter Academy on Internet of Things

Internet of Things

Dr. Vinton G. Cerf, Google

A wave of new, programmable, networkable devices is coming and with it, a wide range of serious considerations ranging from access control to safety and privacy, scaling and ease of use. The designers of these devices will do well to take into account long-term considerations relating to safe software updates to backward compatibility as new devices join older ones in residential and commercial/industrial settings. We have already seen the risks these devices pose in network space with the DDOS attacks against DYN via botnetted webcams (doesn’t that sound like 1984-speak?). As engineers, we will have a lot to answer for if we don’t do a better job of design and implementation.