In what feels like the blink of any eye the Internet of Things has gone beyond smart speakers and a handful of wearables on the market to include well a bit of everything From cars to toothbrushes and at all points in between smart and connected devices are proliferating and finding new tasks to take on particularly and perhaps surprisingly in the B2B space The challenge of course is keeping all of those new data ports safe and secure particularly as digital history is being written in real time and there might not be any real rules of thumb to follow Data 100 billion The number of IoT-connected devices anticipated by 2025 1 200 The number of data breaches in 2017 72 percent The increase in global IoT cellular connections during the first half of 2018 60 percent Share of a users annual spending a fraudster will typically go through once they have control of a consumer account 12 The number of Samsung S3 Wearables being piloted by HSBC in New York