The Internet of Things (IoT) could be a security disaster waiting to happen.

That’s the view of Andrew Rose, a Forrester Research analyst. He believes that early IoT implementations will inevitably be highly insecure, forcing companies involved to ratchet up security later to avoid serious problems.

“I think that will pretty much be the case,” he said. “The cause will be naivete. People won’t have thought through all the use cases for the Internet of Things when they implement it, and they will focus on functionality rather than control systems. That will give malicious people an opportunity to work the technology for their own benefit.”

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