Efficiency is Easy to Hack

This article focuses on the possible cyberattacks as the current generation go Internet-connected way. Connecting an appliance to the Internet provides not only the opportunity for added functions and efficiency, but also the potential for hackers to exploit security lapses. As the attack plain begins to expand and digital attacks spread and become individual, physical, or even kinetic in nature, the calculus will change. Cybersecurity experts have demonstrated that Internet-connected vehicles are vulnerable to attack by hackers. As more physical systems undergo a wave of artificial intelligence (AI)-driven automation with the driving factor being efficiency, those systems become increasingly vulnerable to attack. The article concludes that traditional engineering has long optimized for things like cost, efficiency, or simplicity. Internet-connected machines and IoT-enabled devices will allow systems to do amazing things, but they also create opportunities for bad actors to turn these systems against us.