From TVs to watches, fridges, lightbulbs, or coffee machines, it seems everything needs to be connected now to be marketable. The Internet of Things (IoT) environment is growing in homes and workplaces, but it has established itself way ahead of regulation. IoT devices do not currently have to comply with any specific cybersecurity standards and malicious actors are already making use of these endpoints. Famously, a senior researcher at Avast even demonstrated in 2020 that he had successfully hacked his own coffee machine with ransomware. It’s amazing what some of us got up to in lockdown!
With awareness of the risk growing, it is unsurprising that this month the European Union announced plans for a