The 2018 Embedded Systems Safety & Security Survey was completed by more than 1,700 qualified respondents and is designed to gauge the state of worldwide product development practises of embedded systems engineers.
With the growing number of hacks and cyberattacks threatening IoT devices, Barr believes this result should serve as a warning that security breaches and attacks will continue to plague the embedded system industry in the short-term future.
Based on survey data from 2018 as well as results from prior years, the embedded industry is showing modest improvement when it comes to making security a design consideration during product development, rising from 6% in 2016 to 67% in 2018. However, last year's survey generated 2,000 responses from engineers around the world, compared to this year's 1,700.
