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DHS Plans To Release Guidelines For IoT Security

By Cal Biesecker

Monday, October 24th, 2016

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DHS Plans To Release Guidelines For IoT Security

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 Monday.Johnson released a statement following last Friday’s distributed denial of service attacks 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 the shut down of…

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