One of the key findings of Cisco’s 2017 Midyear Cybersecurity Report was that recent IoT botnet activity suggests attackers may be laying the foundation for a wide-reaching, high-impact cyber-threat event that could disrupt the internet itself.
Following this news, Sean Newman, Director at Corero Network Security, commented: “Cisco’s reports of increasing concerns around the extent to which the IoT will likely be leveraged for cyber-attacks in the near future, should leave online organisations in no doubt that having automated, proactive DDoS protection in place is more of a requirement than ever, to ensure an effective mitigation against extensive service disruptions or a smokescreen for more complex multi-vector attacks.”