Securing the information fabric of IoT

Just imagine a world where billions of interconnected devices can communicate and share information with one another. This may sound like a typical scene from a sci-fi movie but in reality, we are actually witnessing the rapid proliferation of smart sensors, cameras, software, databases and massive data centres in an intricate world-spanning information fabric known as the Internet of Things (IoT).

IoT refers to the growing number of connected intelligent systems, devices and sensors from automobiles and manufacturing systems to wearable devices, appliances, surveillance cameras, smart energy grids, home and building automation, medical systems and televisions that will generate and share massive amounts of data. IoT is defined as “intelligent interactivity between humans and things to exchange information and knowledge for new value creation”