The transportation industry has doubled down in the area of fleet tracking in recent years, which has come with great benefits and not a few security headaches. On the consumer side, we’ve spoken of Apple’s AirTag and how it has been used to find personal items of import — and also its potential to be abused by the nefarious to track and trace individuals. Now we see that Google is jumping into the fray, with the soon-to-be-released tracking device in development apparently codenamed “Grogu” (after the Baby Yoda character in the “Star Wars” spinoff “The Mandalorian”). The astute cybersecurity leader is no doubt thinking: “This is a CISO nightmare.”
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