A new study incorporates analysis of anonymized data from more than 5 million unmanaged, IoT, and IoMT devices in Ordr customer deployments across a variety of verticals including healthcare, life sciences, retail and manufacturing, between June 2019 and June 2020.

Unmanaged devices

Researchers identified real-world risks across a diverse set of connected devices, reaffirming the need for a comprehensive approach to securing all devices, including discovery, classification, profiling of risks, and automated segmentation.

“In some of my recent research around enterprise IoT security I’ve found that more than 51 percent of IT teams are unaware of what types of devices are touching their network,” said Zeus Kerravala, Principal Analyst, ZK Research.