Internet of Things projects can yield data and insights that help companies operate more efficiently and improve products, but they also give hackers additional targets to attack.

Expect more malware like Stuxnet, a worm that went after Siemens industrial control systems and mostly infected computers in Iran, said Alan Tait, CTO of Stream Technologies, a London company with technology that enables machine-to-machine communication.

“As we connect more things to any form of the Internet, even if there’s security, people will still go after them,” he said.

Tait, along with other speakers on different panels, appeared at the LiveWorx conference in Boston on Wednesday to discuss how companies are handling IoT security issues and finding value in linking devices to the Internet.

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