A few months ago I wrote about my cunning plan to stop Internet of Things botnets: stop them at the router.
It's just possible that these were in the works before that post but Symantec, BitDefender and Intel unveiled router level IoT security at CES this year. Not as hard core as my plan, but looks like a useful start.
(Image from Norton Core website).
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