Explained: How smart devices are changing the threat landscape

Research company Gartner predicts that by 2020, IoT will connect more than 20 billion 'things'

A complex digital web powered by the internet governs our lives today. Work or play, entertainment or communication, we depend on the internet to get by all the time. It is entirely possible that for the first time in the history of human civilisation we might have wholeheartedly embraced a technology for its untold conveniences without understanding much of it. Rarely before has a technology showered us with such conveniences that we have choreographed our entire lives around it. And now this virtual digital network has a foot in our physical space as well. We call it the Internet of