Zach Supalla

and we're attacking the DNS servers that help our computers figure out

Uh, yeah, exactly.

Ah, okay.

Um, uh, so I believe the worm is called Mirai, which is why it's referred to as the Mirai botnet.

The Mirai botnet also took down the entire internet of Liberia, which was less widely broadcast in the U S but that's a huge deal.

Um, and so that's a big concern.

It's not only, um, how do I keep my devices from getting hacked, but how do I keep my devices from getting hacked and participating in attacks, right?

Actually becoming malicious.

So, um,

There's a huge range of security here.

We do a lot of work to secure everything from the device specifically to the connection between the device in the cloud and the cloud and like all these different layers.

We're trying to secure each one of them separately and together, which is what provides a really complete secure solution.

A lot of existing devices that are already out there, if you buy a cheap webcam from a Chinese manufacturer off of Amazon, that might not be secure at all.

Or I think actually the issue with the webcams in Mirai was that they were like Linux boxes that had the password set to admin.

Yeah.

And so...

That's like the worst case security.

And there's a lot of devices out there like that.

Now, these days, most manufacturers are intelligent enough to realize they have to secure their products.

And so they look to companies like us to help them.