That is because IoT is a fundamentally different technology than existing systems—a technology with plenty of attack surfaces. Each sensor and device connected to an IoT network presents a possible security risk, opening up an attack vector into an individual or company's hardware, software, and/or data.

Like their mathematical counterparts, the unsolved problems in brand protection will present significant benefits for any service providers able to develop and offer comprehensive solutions.

The most annoying thing about ReDoS vulnerabilities is that they’re not caused by careless coding but by an obscure edge case in the regex engine. I place the blame squarely on the regex library and not the developer who used it.