How do threat models differ for consumer vs industrial IoT?
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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