Security News > 2021 > October > Security changes needed to protect corporate networks from non-business IoT devices

According to a survey of IT decision-makers by Palo Alto Networks, 78% of respondents reported an increase in non-business IoT devices on corporate networks in the last year.

For the second year, survey responses warn of needed security changes to protect corporate networks from non-business IoT devices.

This year, 96% of the same group above indicated their organization's approach to IoT security needs improvement, and 25% said it needs a complete overhaul with the greatest security capability needs around threat protection, risk assessment, IoT device context for security teams, and device visibility and inventory.

"Remote workers need to be aware of devices at home that may connect to corporate networks via their home router. Enterprises need to better monitor threats and access to networks and create a level of segmentation to safeguard remote employees and the organization's most valuable assets."

Worth noting, of the 1,900 global IT decision-makers polled, 51% indicated that IoT devices are segmented on a separate network from the one they use for primary business devices and business applications, and another 26% of respondents said that IoT devices are microsegmented within security zones - an industry best practice where organizations create tightly controlled security zones on their networks to isolate IoT devices and keep them separate from IT devices to avoid hackers from moving laterally on a network.

Implement a real-time monitoring solution that continuously analyzes the behavior of all your network-connected IoT devices to contextually segment your network between your IT and IoT devices - and their workloads.

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