By Anuj Guglani CEO , World Auto Forum
Yes! this can be a sad reality, if we don’t know do something about it Now!
World Auto Forum getting all the Stakeholders viz Govts, Industry Chambers & Associations, IT Cos, Auto Cos, Telcos Together to Act on it
The Time to “Act” is “Now”!
20 Years back, one would read the news of just computers getting hacked. If back in 1990 someone had said, your car, or your fridge can be hacked. People would have laughed their guts out! Well now computers run everything! And they are connected, so in short, anything can get hacked!
Whether its Power Grids, Transportation, Buildings, Public Infrastructures…list goes on..
IOT – Internet of Things or IOE – Internet of Everything are Great concepts. They are getting Big Push from the Govts, Enthusiastic IT Cos & Telcos! Well, all this is Nice!
But the problem lies in the fact that the “Design Genesis” of most Non IT Assets lies not in the present decade but in the last three or four decades. So by design our cars, fridges were not supposed to be IoT and IoE Enabled.
So, When you do make them IoT enabled now, the basic design doesn’t guarantee Security unless the accessing networks are super secure!
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