Interview: How Connected Cars Can Learn from Fintech

Hello David and Sam, A good way to prevent attackers from gaining control on a car or its systems is to only allow access to the data, and only indirectly. Why should any person or program ever have access to the car itself, or any of its devices? Mr. Shawki's thinking is correct here―when it comes to security for the IoT, legacy ideas have to give way to different thinking. The traditional mind-set among financial and industrial applications is that connected systems must follow a server-client model. The server has the data, and the client needs to connect to the server to get it. However, applying this model to the IoT means that every automobile, refrigerator, light switch or kidney machine must expose an attack surface.