It was carried out by an army of hacked IoT devices, that is to say interlinked smartphones, watches, baby phones, heating controllers, cameras and many others, and it was not the first attack of this type. Link. Is IoT in some way pulling the rug out from under its own feet?
Connecting everything and everyone via the Internet undoubtedly multiplies the dangers because many manufacturers of IoT devices have paid too little attention to the question of security in the past. This applies not only to networked consumer goods but also, for example, to high-tech equipment in hospitals that can be hacked from the guest Wi-Fi network. And that's no joke! A security expert at this year's TechDay reported on exactly this case. All the participants at this event – manufacturers of IoT devices, operators, IT infrastructure suppliers, etc. – have an obligation to work together to do more in terms of data security. PROSTEP has already responded to this increasingly risky situation and just a few weeks ago became one of only a few hundred German companies whose IT infrastructure has been certified as complying with the ISO 27001 security standard.
The discussion about the future of PLM is closely bound up with the topic of IoT – indeed, we might say that it is linked to it. The core issue that needs to be addressed is what impact the increasing interconnection of mechatronic and cybertronic products and the development of new service-oriented business models will have on industrial development processes and tools. The development of cybertronic products is an extremely interdisciplinary process that demands new tools and methods. The mecPro2 project yielded interesting results about the ways in which model-based systems engineering (MBSE) will contribute and how it can be integrated in PLM processes and systems. Unfortunately, we read far too little about this topic.