With the rapid development of IoT and the race to implement it in your business, although there are a lot of positives to it$,$ there have also been many challenges that have been difficult to overcome. One example in which I will be writing about is a challenge with security. With a new system full of data and sensitive information, you are now susceptible to security breaches and cyber attacks. In $2016,$ a massive attack occurred on millions of IoT devices$($Center for Internet Security$).$ The first company targeted was a french company, the attack put malware in all those devices and infected each one with a virus. The rate of cyber attacks have only been increasing throughout the years. It's important to take the necessary steps and measures to prevent these attacks from occurring. Some steps you can take to overcome this challenge is to add in extra security measures such as two$-$factor authentication, encryption, secure connection, data protection, and constantly monitoring the firewall to make sure it's up to date and performing to the best of its ability $($Madsen$).$