Open Source Summit: Securing IoT is About Avoiding Anti-Patterns | Linux Today

Open Source Summit: Securing IoT is About Avoiding Anti-Patterns

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Sean Michael Kerner
Sep 13, 2017

LOS ANGELES — The security perils inherent in Internet of Things (IoT) devices are painfully obvious at this point in 2017, but why are there so many security issues? At a session during the Open Source Summit here Marti Bolivar, senior software engineer at Linaro detailed what he described as “anti-patterns” that ultimately lead to negative security outcomes.

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Sean Michael Kerner

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