{"id":11546,"date":"2023-03-02T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/?p=11546"},"modified":"2022-07-14T12:49:09","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T20:49:09","slug":"iot-nutrition-labels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/iot-nutrition-labels\/","title":{"rendered":"IoT Nutrition Labels: Communicating Security Risks to Consumers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Privacy and Security are top concerns for users, but if you&#8217;re not a techie, evaluating or understanding the intricacies of security might be challenging.  Something that is easy to cross your fingers and skip over.  Or worse yet when a product has no information about security and privacy practices &#8212; that&#8217;s often the case with many IoT devices on the market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cylab.cmu.edu\/news\/2020\/05\/27-iot-labels-consumers.html\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.cylab.cmu.edu\/news\/2020\/05\/27-iot-labels-consumers.html\">Researchers at Carnegie Mellon<\/a> are pushing the idea of a security and privacy &#8216;nutrition label&#8217; that could present is a standard and concise way security information that could be used by consumers to help them evaluate a product.  The idea comes from the nutrition labels used by the FDA on standard food packaging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/symantec-enterprise-blogs.security.com\/blogs\/expert-perspectives\/why-we-need-security-and-privacy-nutrition-label-iot-devices\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/symantec-enterprise-blogs.security.com\/blogs\/expert-perspectives\/why-we-need-security-and-privacy-nutrition-label-iot-devices\">The labels would include the following<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Essential security and privacy factors that affect consumers<\/li><li>Present the information in a visually easy way to understand it<\/li><li>Labels should be subject to updates so that the most recent information is always presented<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ece.cmu.edu\/directory\/bios\/agarwal-yuvraj.html\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.ece.cmu.edu\/directory\/bios\/agarwal-yuvraj.html\">Yuvraj Agarwal<\/a>, professor at Carnegie Mellon University, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/iot-security-privacy-labels\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/iot-security-privacy-labels\/\">said that<\/a> \u201cin an IoT setting, the amount of sensors and information you have about users is potentially invasive and ubiquitous. It\u2019s like trying to fix a leaky bucket. So transparency is the most important part. This work shows and enumerates all the choices and factors for consumers.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkreading.com\/endpoint\/iot-nutrition-labels-aim-to-put-security-on-display\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.darkreading.com\/endpoint\/iot-nutrition-labels-aim-to-put-security-on-display\">Cisco responded to the prop<\/a>osal to use IoT Nutrition labels, saying that &#8220;much of the software that consumers purchase and use for connected devices is consumed via application stores or marketplaces that are already well-tended. 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