Thought Leaders on Internet of Things: Ordr CEO Greg Murphy (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What is the size of the IoT device market right now? How many IoT devices are out there? How much of that is secured?

Greg Murphy: It’s everything from a small sensor that costs a few cents all the way up to multi-million dollar manufacturing systems and medical systems. The number of medical IoT devices is growing by 22% year over year. The number of IoT devices greatly outnumbers the number of people on the planet. The question about these devices is how vulnerable they are. That depends a lot on what the device is, where is it connected and whether any compensating controls are put in place.

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Sramana Mitra: Architecturally, we’re in the last mile of where these devices are located. How close to those devices are you putting the agent that can collect data?

Greg Murphy: What we’re doing is, we’re putting a sensor. Our job is to passively monitor the network traffic. In a typical manufacturing environment or hospital, you may put one sensor and use that to monitor the traffic. Once we understand that and see all the communication patterns through and from every device, we use that knowledge to build a behavioral model of each of these devices.

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