Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 04 | Page 18

TRENDING FORTIGUARD RESEARCHERS ANTICIPATE THAT IOT WILL BECOME CENTRAL TO “LAND AND EXPAND” ATTACKS IN WHICH HACKERS WILL TAKE ADVANTAGE OF VULNERABILITIES IN CONNECTED CONSUMER DEVICES TO GET A FOOTHOLD WITHIN THE CORPORATE NETWORKS AND HARDWARE TO WHICH THEY CONNECT hardware is orders of magnitude greater. FortiGuard researchers and others have already demonstrated that it is possible to infect headless devices with small amounts of code that can propagate and per