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Practical Industrial Internet of Things Security

By : Sravani Bhattacharjee
Book Image

Practical Industrial Internet of Things Security

By: Sravani Bhattacharjee

Overview of this book

Securing connected industries and autonomous systems is of primary concern to the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) community. Unlike cybersecurity, cyber-physical security directly ties to system reliability as well as human and environmental safety. This hands-on guide begins by establishing the foundational concepts of IIoT security with the help of real-world case studies, threat models, and reference architectures. You’ll work with practical tools to design risk-based security controls for industrial use cases and gain practical knowledge of multi-layered defense techniques, including identity and access management (IAM), endpoint security, and communication infrastructure. You’ll also understand how to secure IIoT lifecycle processes, standardization, and governance. In the concluding chapters, you’ll explore the design and implementation of resilient connected systems with emerging technologies such as blockchain, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. By the end of this book, you’ll be equipped with the all the knowledge required to design industry-standard IoT systems confidently.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Foreword
Contributors
Disclaimer
Preface
I
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Index

Secure device management


Most IIoT deployments involve connected devices at the scale of thousands if not millions. Management of these devices at scale is one of the core offerings of most IoT cloud providers. The end-to-end life cycle management of devices includes secured provisioning, identity and access control, configuration management, remote monitoring of device health, and retirement of unused devices. An automated device provisioning service registers new devices with geographically diverse PoPs, manages device configurations, secures devices by pushing OTA patches and updates, and also re-provisions devices when they reconnect or relocate.

For secured and efficient access to device state information and health data, and to facilitate analysis and business application development, a virtual replica of each device is maintained in the cloud. This replica is referred to by various names by various cloud platforms, for example, "digital or device twins", "device shadows", and so on...