Digital Transformers / BookBaby (ePub)

Smart devices designed for the Internet of Things (IoT), industrial IoT, and operational technology (OT) in the emerging era of digital transformation require protection by design for cyber resilience. Cyberattacks by nation state actors and cybercrime syndicates cause system outages and disruption of essential services. This book is a call to action - for silicon chip makers, equipment manufacturers, managed security service providers, device owners and operators, to begin the journey towards collaborative cyber protection. The traditional information technology (IT) detection and prevention methods based on threat models are inadequate to defend the billions of devices that are an intrinsic part of our daily regimen. It's essential to adopt protection models based on risk for modernization across all sectors - smart factories, smart cities, smart grids, smart transportation, smart homes, healthcare systems, aviation systems, public utility systems, defense systems, and law enforcement systems. The power of scientific and technological innovations offers opportunities to transform and reform the way things are and the way they ought to be. If the past three decades are a gauge of the power of innovation, then the next three decades will be a harbinger of the power of transformation.