How to secure IoT vulnerabilities?

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Internet of Things (IoT)?security is the technology segment that is focused on safeguarding connected devices and networks in IoT. It involves adding internet connectivity to a system of interrelated computing, mechanical and digital machines, or devices. A few examples of IoT are:

• Smartphones, smartwatches, and smart homes, which control everything from air conditioning to door locks, everything from a single device.
• Various industrial plants use sensors to monitor the presence of dangerous materials or workplace conditions to manage employee movements inside the facility.
• After surgery, cardiac patients have a heart sensor installed, which reports the diagnostic conditions of the patient to any monitoring physician.

Key concepts of IoT

The various concepts are as follows:

• Focus on real-world data
• An enterprise has to deal with various types of documents and data in different forms of static digital information. IoT devices produce the type of data that typically reflects more than one physical condition in the real world and helps exercise control over what is happening in real-time.
• Resulting Data itself
• IoT tasks are often defined by a larger purpose that drives their deployment. In many case scenarios, data is part of a control loop with a straightforward cause-and-effect objective. For example, a house owner can know if any of their doors are unlocked or not through the sensor, and through that transmitted signal, use an actuator to lock that door immediately.

How does IoT work?

IoT works as a group of devices, networks, and software tools combined to form an ecosystem to collect, send and act on data that they acquire from their environments. IoT consists of devices that “talk” to the cloud through connectivity. When this data gets to the cloud, the software processes it and then performs an action on it (upon a decision made). But the most important thing about an IoT system is – this whole process is customizable.