Security and privacy are a constant in every Internet of Things conference. In public institutions, security and privacy could be ranked as the number one concern. People are simply not comfortable with the idea of having 50 billion connected devices posing 50 billion potential threats.

But I’ve found that talks that start with the words security and privacy are soon blended with the concepts of data integrity and liability. I’d like to drill down into these concepts to clarify what each of them mean for the IoT and open the discussion on the most important issues.

Security

There was a time when having a Linux laptop meant being virus-free. Now you find news about malware like the Linux.Darlioz worm that can infect home routers, security cameras or other consumer devices connected to the Internet.
While encryption and authentication algorithms and procedures exist, they are usually expensive in power performance. Many…