The smart home market continues to heat up, and information security risks in the era of big data cannot be ignored

In recent years, as emerging technologies such as the Internet of Things, cloud computing, and big data have entered the field of smart homes, major smart home manufacturers have formed their own characteristic products, showing the characteristics of popularization. After more than ten years of development, smart home will achieve a qualitative leap, and better serve users.

The demand for smart homes is increasing, or the blue ocean of innovation

Under the trend of intelligence and automation, the smart home industry has ushered in a period of rapid development, and the entry of many companies has also made the already popular smart home market continue to heat up. At the same time, with the continuous improvement of consumer consumption and consumption With the rapid change of concept, the trend of smart home development towards individualization and fashion is becoming more and more obvious.

The latest research report "2018 Global Smart Home Market Forecast" released by Strategy Analytics, a global market research and consulting agency, pointed out that the global smart home market reached US$84 billion in 2017, an increase of 16% from the US$72 billion in 2016. In 2018, the total global consumer spending on smart home equipment, systems and services will be close to 96 billion U.S. dollars, and the compound annual growth rate during the forecast period (2018 to 2023) will reach 10% to 155 billion U.S. dollars. The Asia-Pacific region will Up to 26 billion U.S. dollars.

The smart home market continues to heat up, and information security risks in the era of big data cannot be ignored

At the same time, according to IDC statistics, in 2017, global smart home equipment shipments reached 433.1 million units, an increase of 27.6% over the previous year. At the same time, IDC also predicts that by 2022, the global smart home equipment market shipments will reach 939.7 million units. This shows that the global demand for smart homes is increasing and the development prospects are broad.

Information security risks that cannot be ignored in the era of big data

Although the demand for smart homes is increasing, the hidden information security issues in its applications cannot be ignored.

The family is a trusted and private area, the hotel is a semi-trusted and semi-open area, and the Internet is an untrusted open area. When data enters the home or hotel from the open area of ​​the Internet, if there is no safe With defense strategies and methods, risks will also invade.

The current security risks in smart homes mainly fall into the following four categories:

Data transmission is unencrypted or simply encrypted, resulting in leakage of user information. (For example: the data transmitted to the cloud is intercepted and copied)

The client APP has not been tested safely, and the related code has vulnerabilities. (For example: take away the user's account, password, etc. through loopholes)

The hardware device has a debugging interface, and uses an operating system or a third-party library with security vulnerabilities. (For example: invading the device, hijacking the device application)

The remote control command lacks reinforcement authorization, and there is a risk of illegal intrusion and hijacking of applications. (For example, the camera is used illegally)

In order to facilitate people's use of smart homes and allow people to monitor and operate smart products at any time, most smart home products use the cloud to remotely send control commands to achieve people's control of smart home products, and it is precisely this convenient method. The lack of security defenses may bring huge risks to smart homes.

How to realize the security defense of smart home products

It takes time to improve the safety of smart home products.

On the one hand, it is necessary to improve the safety awareness of smart home product business managers and designers, especially the safety awareness of business managers, so that in the development process of smart products, not only pay attention to product functions and user experience, but also add security defenses. Means, for the user's safety risk consideration.

On the other hand, from the user's perspective, the safety awareness of smart home products needs to be improved. Many users only pay attention to the function and convenience of the product, but are unwilling to pay for the increased cost of improving product safety. Such a vicious circle has caused both manufacturers and consumers to have no motivation in product safety defense. Once a safety risk accident occurs, they will regret it.

It is worth noting that my country’s relevant information security laws and regulations and smart home industry management agencies must strengthen the protection of the security of smart home products. The “Cyber ​​Security Law” promulgated by my country last year fully reflects the government and the people’s commitment to network security. Claim. Smart home industry management agencies should also strengthen communication and supervision of smart home companies to escort the information security of smart home users.

For smart home companies, if they want to occupy a place in the blue ocean of smart homes, they must first solve the problem of product security defenses, so that consumers can enjoy the convenience brought by smart homes without considering information security issues. , To gain consumer loyalty and enhance the brand influence of the company.

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