AI, Robots, and Cyborgs -- Inside IoT With Chris Poulin

This is Recorded Future, inside threat intelligence for cybersecurity. It's a wide-ranging category, covering everything from connected thermostats, refrigerators, and security cameras to industrial control systems, self-driving cars, and medical devices. It's hardly an exaggeration to say that if a device has a power source, somebody is thinking up a way to connect it to the internet. And with that comes opportunities for improving our lives and the world we live in, and risks to our security and privacy. Our guest this week is Chris Poulin. He's a principal at Booz Allen Hamilton, where he leads their Internet of Things security practice. Devices have been connecting to the internet for a long time, and in fact, it's kind of interesting. Way back in my career, I was always fascinated where physical and digital meet, and so I would say, probably around 2009 or so is when I sort of realized that the internet was a place where other things … So, beyond, for example, industrial control systems, which had to send their telemetry. So, pumps saying how fast their motors were spinning, how much heat, how much pressure was in pipes, et cetera, et cetera, all of that was being reported in industrial control systems, and I'd say that was probably one of the first … what we would consider nowadays to be "Internet of Things" things. So, there was always this awareness that they were connected, and then the rest of the world decided that they were going to connect other things like cars. And so, for example, OnStar and Uconnect and all of those things have been connecting cars back to a call center for a long time, but it used mobile airwaves. So, you could argue that those things were connected.