Who goes there? Why router authentication may be an ISP’s weakest link
Many ISPs underestimate the level of risk to their own backend infrastructure from poorly secured household routers. The growing use of intelligent CPE to deliver data-centric, value-added services to the home in concert with cloud-based servers means that routers are now more tightly coupled to the service provider’s core network than ever before. This blog outlines the dangers to ISP revenue, reputation and quality of service if CPE authentication processes are inadequate. We’ll also look at how ISPs can add a trusted and unclonable identity into each device to safeguard the integrity of their own network and services.
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