After Mirai: Cyber Security Implications of IoT Botnet Proliferation Against Critical Infrastructure

The Mirai botnet, and its extraordinary impact on service and cloud providers and many popular sites, such as Krebs, OVH, and Dyn, has changed the way we as security practitioners evaluate defense in depth for our security ecosystems, and the overall threat landscape. Consequently, however, the significance of the Mirai Botnet and what it was able to accomplish should bring concern to the potential implications against critical infrastructure targets, as those environments are becoming more connected. With IoT proliferation trending toward twenty-five billion devices by 2020, the threat surface for coordinated attacks to be directed at critical infrastructure targets will grow exponentially, outpacing our ability to effectively detect and respond to cyber threats against them.

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