[logicallee]

The truth is, IOT is, if not exactly, a natural monopoly, certainly something that benefits from economies of scale.

Fifty extremely experienced security engineers can come up with a pretty good IOT security infrastructure in six months.

But should EVERY company have to reinvent that wheel, somehow finding 50 extremely experienced security engineers, and making them do that?

What would work better is if the fifty extremely experienced security engineers did it once, in a way everyone can use.

I must say I do trust Google to autoupdate my Chrome (haha, as though I had a choice), and they can do anything on my computer that they want. It's not a big stretch to let them autoupdate my lightbulbs, toaster, fridge, anything else.

I think Google should get on the ball and centralize IOT security. (Uh, no, not by putting android on everything.) It would be a pretty natural fit for them and not that big of a burden.

I mean what are these small companies supposed to do? There is a natural market opening.