Obviously, all of your employees have a PC, a phone, and probably any number of other digital devices, all connecting at one time or another to a corporate network to access data, applications, services, or other connected resources. Oh, how wrong you would be.Īnd the cybersecurity implications are huge. You may think your IoT connectivity is far more limited than it really is. I’m sure many consumers–and probably even many business executives and board members–don’t fully grasp how true this is. In fact, we’re just six degrees apart from each other, just like Kevin Bacon. Like it or not, know it or not, we are all connected to each other and to every type of device with a sensor or a chip. Our devices–as sophisticated and as digitally affixed to our lives as computers and phones, or as seemingly mundane and disparate from much of our lives as toasters and toys–are constantly building, exploring, and leveraging new relationships among people and machines. Every day, our work, home, and public comings and goings link up, forming associations that may seem fleeting, but in actuality are permanent. With each new connection point, the IoT becomes larger and more intertwined among people and machines. With tens of billions of connected things–and counting–the IoT is like a giant ecosystem that feeds on itself every second of every minute of every hour of every day. And in the rapidly changing world of technology, nothing better personifies the Six Degrees theory than the Internet of Things (IoT). Most, if not all, of us have heard about the Six Degrees of Separation theory–ostensibly, everyone and everything is just six connections removed from Kevin Bacon–to appreciate just how interconnected our society and our world have become. You don’t need to be a student of American cinema to know what the movies “Animal House” and “A Few Good Men” have in common:
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