The whole focus on IOT and random individual devices on the network seems misplaced. If all it takes is misconfiguration of random devices that join the network to take it down then you have a larger problem than these devices.
Since there is no way to police this and 'wack a mole' for billions of devices is not a practical strategy this security focus on IOT devices while nice does not address the core problem of vulnerable networks and ddos. It distracts and diverts from it.
True, but there's conversely a whole bunch of problems associated with the scandalous lack of security wrt many IoT devices, that aren't anything to do with DDoS. I wonder how many people are being watched as we speak.
Since there is no way to police this and 'wack a mole' for billions of devices is not a practical strategy this security focus on IOT devices while nice does not address the core problem of vulnerable networks and ddos. It distracts and diverts from it.