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DHS Plans To Release Guidelines For IoT Security

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2016

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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been developing “strategic principles” for securing the Internet of Things (IoT) and will release them in the coming weeks, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said on Oct. 24.Johnson released a statement following the distributed denial of service attacks on Oct. 21 that shut down a number of popular websites in the United States including Amazon [AMZN], Twitter [TWTR] and Netflix [NFLX]. The attacks began against managed domain name system provider Dyn, leading to…

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