As the internet of things (IoT) becomes more pervasive, offers awesome enterprise potential and continues to enhance productivity and convenience across the board, let’s keep in mind, nothing comes without a cost.

For starters, the inherent risks with IoT as an emerging technology involve susceptibility to more than 70,000 known common vulnerabilities and exposures (CV&E’s). And that’s just the number of CV&E’s that industry experts have discovered, documented and care to share.

Plus, with almost every industry in a rush to leverage IoT as means to gobble up market share comes companies who may have strong marketing and design, but present greater inherent risks than necessary due to their technology not embracing or baking cybersecurity in early.

And let’s not forget that inherent risks may stem from technologies being open source or decision makers neglecting to make sure the required patches are applied. Regardless, inherent risks open the door to a single device potentially exposing entire networks to malicious attacks.

The bottom line is that inherent risks are proving that if a technology is smart, then everyone it connects with is vulnerable.

NOVAM’s health checks enable users, devices and applications to verify that software packages and hardware components are uncompromised and unmodified by malware or other cyber threats, across the entire boot chain on a device.