“ If they ’ re doing it to us , why shouldn ’ t we do it to them ?” she asked . “ The key thing is to figure out how we can get ahead of the threat .”
We couldn ’ t leave Knight without touching on the small matter of her gaining access to an unnamed bank ’ s internal network from the comfort of her own car in the parking lot ( completely sanctioned , of course ). “ I just drove up to the parking lot , found their CCTV cameras on the wireless network and jumped straight to their internal network ,” she said , making it sound far too simple .
There was a serious side , however . “ Humans are always the weak link ,” she explained , “ and that will likely never change . If it can be made by humans , it can be broken by humans – this bank just didn ’ t look closely enough at its infrastructure and , like those companies in my app research , forgot the golden rule : implement network segmentation so your IoT devices aren ’ t on the same network as the rest of your critical production systems .”
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