Increasing connectivity of vehicles and devices from various domains such as building automation or home appliances leads to higher attention to security topics. In particular, several attacks on connected vehicles have been demonstrated at recent security conferences and gained high media attention. But connected sensors and devices in other areas are also increasingly exposed to risks. Bosch, as a leading global automotive supplier and manufacturer of sensors and devices, is carrying out a number of activities to analyse the security and privacy risks in a connected world, develop innovative security solutions, and advance research for security and privacy in our connected future. In this talk, we outline practical use cases and application scenarios from the automotive and other domains, as well as the current state of the art / state of the industry. Moreover, we present some of our efforts towards a secure Internet of Things.