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As a recent technology Internet of Things (IoT) is getting popularity and companies are trying to adapt it for their businesses. Hence, companies are required to have a plan to implement IoT in their business and to protect their data also. In the next coming five years, there is a prediction about the number of IoT devices and will reach around 50 billion. It means that you are putting the sensors on everything. It may be any devices, things, tractors or it may be anything you can think of.

Dignan think IoT is the very essential components which include digital transformation. It will transform the entire business by making changes in the way how you track your inventory and the supply chain, providing you more analytical data, and more insights. The best place where IoT will be most transformative can be seen under the smart city environment such as sensor based monitoring and controlling of traffic or supply of water or leakage. However, there is one challenge along with the collection of data generated by the sensors that deciding which data is important and should be kept for futures purpose, and which doesn’t. Since storage is cheap, companies can keep data lying around. As per the Dignan, companies are putting a lot of sensors in most of the devices, and not aware or not having plans what to do with that data. Data which is collected and left lying around for potential use later can become vulnerable to attacks. As the data moves to the cloud, it needs to be secured. Dignan said that IoT is going to make everything smart, which is a little freaky yet also kind of cool.