IC Data Communications LLC Blog

Third-party vendors are essential for modern businesses, as they deliver mission-critical resources and tools to the organizations that utilize them, including raw materials, software, and other services. Unfortunately, these vendors can also serve as direct lines into your business for a cyberattack to take advantage of for their own purposes.

Let’s talk a little about how you can still lean on your vendors without sacrificing your all-important security.

The IoT—the Internet of Things—is a fascinating technology, as it exemplifies just how much can be accomplished when Internet connectivity is used to augment the capabilities of otherwise “dumb” devices. Unfortunately, as fascinating as it is, the IoT is also infamous for its security issues…a reputation that attackers have been perpetuating as these devices grow more common.