Watch your IoT devices watching you

"What is the purpose of the IoT Inspector project?"

"Many people use smart-home devices, also known as the Internet-of-Things (IoT), in their daily lives, ranging from bulbs, plugs, and sensors, to TVs and kitchen appliances. To a large extent, these devices enrich the lives of many users. At the same time, they may bring negative impact to their owners."

I attended a business gathering the other day and someone asked me who our ideal customer would be.  Our ideal customer is a small business owner that is concerned about cybersecurity, wants to do something about it, but doesn't know what to do. 

The solutions we offer recognize that small businesses don't have endless dollars to throw at security.  With that in mind, I love Thinkst Canaries but $5000 for two of them immediately pushes up against that cost barrier.  As an alternative, we can use OpenCanary installed on some modest hardware and drive the cost down significantly.

In your arsenal of goodies, canaries are useful because unlike most other devices on the network which have thresholds, canaries alert off of a single hit.  And for a good reason because there's no reasonable explanation why this box should be touched unless someone is up to no good.  

You find a missing mapped drive and / or you attempt to map to a drive and you receive an error stating:  "You can't connect to the file share because it's not secure.  This share requires the obsolete SMB1 protocol, which is unsafe and could expose your system to attack."