In its 2021 report, 'Rise of the Machines 2021: State of Connected devices - IT, IoT, IoMT and OT', Ordr addresses pandemic-related cyber-security challenges, including the growth of connected devices and the related increase of security risks from these devices as threat actors have taken advantage of unintended opportunities to launch attacks.
The research incorporates security risk and trend analysis of anonymised data for 12 months (June 2020 to June 2021) across more than 500 of the company's deployments in the healthcare, life sciences, retail and manufacturing verticals.
According to the report, 42 per cent of connected devices were 'agentless' or 'un-agentable' devices. This was up from 32 per cent of such devices in 2020. These devices include medical and manufacturing devices that are critical to business operations, along with network devices; IP phones; networked printers; video surveillance cameras and facility devices (such...