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Mastering IOT

By : Colin Dow, Perry Lea
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Mastering IOT

By: Colin Dow, Perry Lea

Overview of this book

The Internet of Things (IoT) is the fastest growing technology market. Industries are embracing IoT technologies to improve operational expenses, product life, and people's well-being. We’ll begin our journey with an introduction to Raspberry Pi and quickly jump right into Python programming. We’ll learn all concepts through multiple projects, and then reinforce our learnings by creating an IoT robot car. We’ll examine modern sensor systems and focus on what their power and functionality can bring to our system. We’ll also gain insight into cloud and fog architectures, including the OpenFog standards. The Learning Path will conclude by discussing three forms of prevalent attacks and ways to improve the security of our IoT infrastructure. By the end of this Learning Path, we will have traversed the entire spectrum of technologies needed to build a successful IoT system, and will have the confidence to build, secure, and monitor our IoT infrastructure. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: Internet of Things Programming Projects by Colin Dow Internet of Things for Architects by Perry Lea
Table of Contents (34 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Free Chapter
1
The IoT Story
Index

Government regulations and intervention


Government bodies and regulatory agencies have stepped in to recommend and mandate levels of security that must be met by vendors to be considered secure. There has been more interest lately in the US government with regards to ensuring certain security standards are met for connected devices, especially with the growing attacks on IoT systems. It is important to be cognizant of these rules and laws as other countries may adopt similar or, in other cases, completely dissimilar regulations making the job of an IoT architect difficult when scaling globally. These laws affect privacy and security for the individual as well as the nation.

 

US Congressional Bill –Internet of Things (IoT) Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2017

IoT security has received attention from various governments. A bipartisan bill (S.1691 – Internet of Things IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2017 (https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/1691/text)) was introduced...