The Director of the IT Directorate and CIO at NASA's Ames Research Center Jerry Davis at the GITEC conference April 2, said while the "internet of dangerous things" has the potential to improve data analytic s and increase efficiency, this greater connectivity is "beginning to change our lives as we know it, in not such a good way."

The dangers emerging from the expansion of the internet of things requires rethinking decades-old security practices and education curriculum, according to a top IT official at NASA. With billions of devices connecting to the internet, security practices have to address the possibility of once-improbable "black swan" events becoming the order of the day.

"Security has always been everyone's problem," he said. "We have to rely on everybody that's in the community to mitigate these issues."

Davis pointed to recent instances where IoT attacks have taken place, such as when researchers remotely hacked a Jeep's steering, transmission and brake systems and when Iranians accessed a computer at a New York dam.Davis said that much of the technology users rely on is built on "60 years of bad software development," which has resulted from a rush to get new technology to market. https://www.frontline.ng/tech/cyber-security/nasa-iot-might-not-secure-cio-nasas-ames-research-center-jerry-davis/