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Practical Internet of Things Security

By : Drew Van Duren, Brian Russell
Book Image

Practical Internet of Things Security

By: Drew Van Duren, Brian Russell

Overview of this book

With the advent of Internet of Things (IoT), businesses will be faced with defending against new types of threats. The business ecosystem now includes cloud computing infrastructure, mobile and fixed endpoints that open up new attack surfaces, a desire to share information with many stakeholders and a need to take action quickly based on large quantities of collected data. . It therefore becomes critical to ensure that cyber security threats are contained to a minimum when implementing new IoT services and solutions. . The interconnectivity of people, devices, and companies raises stakes to a new level as computing and action become even more mobile, everything becomes connected to the cloud, and infrastructure is strained to securely manage the billions of devices that will connect us all to the IoT. This book shows you how to implement cyber-security solutions, IoT design best practices and risk mitigation methodologies to address device and infrastructure threats to IoT solutions. This book will take readers on a journey that begins with understanding the IoT and how it can be applied in various industries, goes on to describe the security challenges associated with the IoT, and then provides a set of guidelines to architect and deploy a secure IoT in your Enterprise. The book will showcase how the IoT is implemented in early-adopting industries and describe how lessons can be learned and shared across diverse industries to support a secure IoT.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Practical Internet of Things Security
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Primer on threats, vulnerability, and risks (TVR)


A substantial amount of academic wrangling has evolved competing definitions for the concepts of threats, vulnerability, and risks. In the interest of keeping this volume practical and usable, we will first revisit in this section what the information assurance industry has termed the five pillars of information assurance. These pillars, or domains, of information assurance represent the highest-level categories of assurance in an information system. Next, we will introduce two additional pillars that are critically important in cyber-physical systems. Once introduced, we will then explore IoT threats, vulnerabilities and risks.

The classic pillars of information assurance

It is nearly impossible to discuss practical aspects of threat, vulnerability, and risk without identifying the essential components of information assurance (IA), an important subdomain of IoT security. Succinctly, they are as follows:

  • Confidentiality: Keeping sensitive...