Nearly half of IoT projects don't test for software security

Despite the fact that third party code in IoT projects has grown 17 percent in the past five years, only 56 percent of OEMs have formal policies for testing security. A report from security testing and software research company GrammaTech, based on findings from a VDC Research survey, reveals that this is despite 73.6 percent of respondents saying security is important, very important or critical. 'Commercial third-party code, which is the fastest growing component software within the IoT market, can contain both proprietary and open source components,' says Andy Meyer, chief marketing officer for GrammaTech. 'Lack of visibility into this… [Continue Reading]