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Context

Recently, a webinar on CYBERSECURITY for Machine-to-Machine (M2M)/Internet of Things (IoT) was organised by the Telecommunication Engineering Centre (TEC), the technical arm of the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) along with the Delegation of the European Union to India including Project InDiCo and SESEI.
Some of the topics were related to the technical report Code of Practice for consumer IoT security released by TEC, which provides baseline requirements consistent with the recommendations from European Telecommunication Standards Institute (ETSI) EN 303 645.

What is M2M?

Machine-to-machine, or M2M, is a broad label that can be used to describe any technology that enables networked devices to exchange information and perform actions without the manual assistance of humans.
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) facilitate the communication between systems, allowing them to make their own autonomous choices.
The main purpose of machine-to-machine technology is to tap into sensor data and transmit it to a network.
The main components of an M2M system include sensors, RFID, a Wi-Fi or cellular communications link, and autonomic computing software programmed to help a network device interpret data and make decisions.
One of the most well-known types of machine-to-machine communication is telemetry, which has been used since the early part of the last century to transmit operational data.

About IoT

Internet of things is an integrated system in which devices are connected in a network of information in such a way that they can communicate with each other without any human intervention.
It creates an intelligent system of systems which can manage multiple activities of human concern like traffic control, health management, optimal use of electricity and inventory management etc.
IoT requires data to work. This data is then turned into meaningful information for processing. Data accessibility is indispensable for the working of IoT and this is being facilitated by digitization.
Digitization is a process which interconnects the world into an integrated network enabling sharing of data and information across systems. Thus, IoT connects devices but this connectivity is provided by the digitization of information. In brief, digitization is an enabler of IoT.