{"id":249,"date":"2025-04-02T13:37:19","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T12:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sense.tech\/blog\/?p=249"},"modified":"2025-04-02T13:37:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T12:37:20","slug":"the-importance-of-security-for-iot-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sense.tech\/blog\/the-importance-of-security-for-iot-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"The Importance of Security for IOT devices"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you\u2019re currently using IoT devices to manage location and tasks, be sure to check out how secure they actually are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why? Because, sadly, cyberattacks are becoming more common. Partly, because of the rise of AI, meaning cyberattacks are becoming easier to carry out, too. Particularly, healthcare IoT devices are being targeted, with attacks increasing by 123% year over year.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cyberattacks are also reasonably expensive for victims to remedy, with the average cost to medium and large businesses being approximately \u00a310,830 in the UK. Putting financial cost aside, reputational damage to your brand and erosion of trust with customers could be beyond repair, leaving your business in a very risky situation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One solution to help prevent the exploitation of IoT devices, seems to be embedding security into the design phase of IoT systems (security by design). Did you know, access to many IoT devices is actually unencrypted? Leaving your network vulnerable to cyberattack and your business at very real risk of financial, and reputational damage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This enormous, unencrypted gap in network security allows criminals to potentially access your network through something as inconspicuous as a smart thermostat, or a smart lighting system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, this is not how Sense\u2019s real time location system works.
Sense IoT devices use their own \u201cmesh\u201d, meaning that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n