IoT Botnet Attacks, Impact on Consumers and How to Prevent It

Internet of Things, we can easily say, is a revolution in making; and it’s going to be one revolution that we all reckon by.

It’s a concept fast gaining popularity amongst people from not just the technologically inclined people, but just about everyone.

Similarly, our cities are also being aimed at having a better technologically equipped transportation system, complete with inter-connected sensors to help streamline the traffic.

Internet of things development is also expected to take us towards a future that sees a better monitored and controlled lighting, pollution, power plants, and so on.

Healthcare is looking for a future that allows for an at-home health monitoring that is as good as a clinical health monitoring through connected sensors, a vastly better communication, and even well-connected wearables.

We are about to embrace a future where the healthcare landscape is an ever-improving one, where your doctor will get your blood pressure update without having to be present near you, or your sleep pattern could be relayed back to and tracked by your physician in real-time, or your EEG and ECG devices, your blood glucose and other vital sign checking devices would be connected and well-monitored over the Internet.

But in recent years that slope has transmuted into a free fall.

Everything is or is being connected to the internet, hence IoT!

One such sector to benefit from this revolution is the healthcare industry touted to be a $117 Billion market by 2020.

Enterprises are going through a global digital transformation with IoT being at the center of it.

With smart devices recording various patterns of consumer behavior such as their interaction with AI, the conversion rate, consumer decision processes etc, this information coupled with machine learning, design thinking, the blockchain, and data intelligence, will be continuously churning out insights previously inconceivable.

Smart Homes: IoT at home