Former DHS chief Chertoff details steps for managing IoT risks in new ABA policy book

Former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff is urging the makers and developers of connected consumer products, part of an emerging Internet of Things, to take steps to manage their security risks or face the likely consequence of tough new regulatory and legal requirements.

“The consumer IoT industry should work hard to support the development of a liability standard and a functioning insurance market,” Chertoff writes in the foreword to a new American Bar Association review of the legal and policy...