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that occurs , satisfaction falls .”
Customer satisfaction will be the key to making the technology more widely popular , particularly with end users .
The HCL report also pinpointed security concerns as being the principal reason as to why the technology has not been taken up more widely to this point . Indeed , 38 % of respondents cited this as the primary barrier .
Global security company Forcepoint has just released its 2018 predictions , and the report asserts that because of the wide-scale adoption of IoT devices in consumer and business environments combined with the fact devices are often both easy-to-access and unmonitored , these devices are now a highly attractive target for cybercriminals wishing to hold them to ransom or obtain a long-term , persistent presence on the network .
Whilst ransomware of these connected things is possible , it remains unlikely in 2018 . The main new threat that will emerge this year is what the report is calling ‘ the disruption of
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