Jacob is a penetration tester at TechSoft Inc. based at Singapore. The company assigned him the task of conducting penetration test on the IoT devices connected to the corporate network. As part of this process, he captured the network traffic of the devices, their mobile applications, and cloud connections to check whether any critical data are transmitted in plain text. Also, he tried to check whether SSL/TLS protocols are properly updated and implemented. Which of the following IoT security issues Jacob is dealing with?

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Jacob is dealing with the issue of lack of transport encryption by checking if critical data is transmitted in plain text and verifying the implementation of SSL/TLS protocols.

Jacob Is a Penetration Tester at TechSoft Inc