NIST, FBI officials: IoT security is a 'shared responsibility' between government, industry

Officials from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the FBI on Monday encouraged collaboration between government, industry, and the public in securing the growing network of connected devices.

Ron Ross, a fellow at NIST who helped develop new standards for building in cybersecurity, said during a Bloomberg webcast interview that government can lead on cybersecurity of the Internet of Things by developing the standards and guidelines by which industry can secure its products by design.

“They can...