Meet Thistle, the startup that wants to secure billions of IoT devices

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For more than two decades, Window Snyder has built security into products at some of the biggest companies in the world. Now, she's unveiling her own company that aims to bake security into billions of connected devices made by other companies.

San Francisco-based Thistle Technologies said on Thursday that it received $2.5 million in seed funding from True Ventures. The startup is creating tools that will help manufacturers build security into connected devices from the ground up.

IoT, hackers' low-hanging fruit

Printers, ATMs, consumer electronics, automobiles, and similar types of Internet-of-things devices have emerged as some of the biggest targets of malware. Manufacturers typically don't have the security expertise that companies like Apple, Microsoft, and Google have developed over the past 20 years.

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