Industrial IoT security lags behind innovation and use

Significance

This is blurring boundaries between traditional operational remits and is making it difficult to understand and mitigate risk, at both organisational and systemic levels.

Impacts

• New models of service provision (rather than ownership) make risk control more difficult.
• Legal and practical safeguards for algorithmic accountability are weak.
• Privacy protections are being tested by the huge data flows and data processing potential of the Industrial IoT.