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How do threat models differ for consumer vs industrial IoT?

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Consumer IoT often faces casual proximity abuse, stolen phones, and app store piracy, while industrial devices face targeted tampering and long-lived installs on factory networks. Scale controls to asset value and safety impact. For example, a factory gateway needs operator auth and network segmentation that a toy sensor may not.

Published August 2026 · Last technically reviewed August 2026

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