Developing an engineering project is a challenge by itself. In the practice, dealing with some product or service is very requiring and it can take a couple of phases from an initial idea unless the final solution. The Internet of Things (IoT) is a cyber-physical system which needs both – the good understanding of the hardware and software configuration, as well as the great management of the web service, so far. As a cutting-edge technology, the IoT has revolutionized the global high-tech industry landscape which thanks to such an endeavor has become much more accessible to many consumers across the world. The fact is the internet service is cheap, but in the majority of cases less reliable as those relying on that signal need to take care about safety and security of such a communication. In other words, the current tendencies dictate a demand for a better cyber defense which is extremely hard realizing in a reality as those projects are also a technological problem that must be tackled carefully, so far.
From this point of view, it’s quite unthankful talking about all pluses and minuses of the IoT system design as some engineers believe that the web connectivity as a part of the internet as a critical infrastructure could be the main challenge, but – on the other hand – working on the software and hardware development and deployment might need an outstanding technical skill and some sorts of the deeply trickery adaptations, adjustments and brand-new ideas, so far. Serving in an R&D IoT department is something that seeks a big deal of creativity and intelligent approaches, because even if many industrial players have mastered to make such a technology yet need to learn a lot as any new project is a challenge requiring a new innovative and ingenious perspective in order to be resolved and launched on the marketplace, so far.
In so many cases, the IoT systems are truly a digital technology that looks for vetting engineers and coders who can meet demands of such a project. Apparently, sometimes it is needed to begin with skilled research that can make a road to the rest of the design phases suggesting how the project should appear at the end and responding on the very starting points of such a concern, so far. The majority of the high-tech security experts indicate that the cyber assurance requirements should be initial as they are well-aware about all the constrains of the messy prepared projects which can be deeply unsafe and unsecure in a technological fashion. Some experiences in the IoT industry show many marketplace actors especially in Asia deal with a pretty straightforward assembly industry purchasing fully developed semi-products, complying them and after making some program pushing such a solution through a testing phase practically not coping with any kind of the R&D at its genuine level, so far. Indeed, in the developed economies – it is common to start from nothing going step-by-step from one stage to the next for a reason those industries can offer something very novel and completely generated offering a progress to the entire humankind.
Indeed, the 4th industrial revolution came from the East as a response to the wiring issue and need for a better understanding of the wireless transmission of the information and as those two questions have been opened a couple of decades ago some ideas have come then, but as a very fast answer to such emerging attempts the majority of the Western countries have agreed those systems are not secure enough running the entire new trends in the technological ever-evolving ecosystem, so far.
About The Author
Milica D. Djekic is an Independent Researcher from Subotica, the Republic of Serbia. She received her engineering background from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Belgrade. She writes for some domestic and overseas presses and she is also the author of the books “The Internet of Things: Concept, Applications and Security” and “The Insider’s Threats: Operational, Tactical and Strategic Perspective” being published in 2017 and 2021 respectively with the Lambert Academic Publishing. Milica is also a speaker with the BrightTALK expert’s channel. She is the member of an ASIS International since 2017 and contributor to the Australian Cyber Security Magazine since 2018. Milica’s research efforts are recognized with Computer Emergency Response Team for the European Union (CERT-EU), Censys Press, BU-CERT UK and EASA European Centre for Cybersecurity in Aviation (ECCSA). Her fields of interests are cyber defense, technology and business. Milica is a person with disability.
