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Practical Internet of Things Security

By : Drew Van Duren, Brian Russell
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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

Building security in to design and development


In this section, we discuss the need to securely engineer IoT products and systems. This guidance is useful whether you are planning a single IoT product, or the integration and deployment of millions of IoT devices into an enterprise system. Either way, it is important to build security in from the start by focusing on methodically understanding threats, tracing security requirements through to completion, and ensuring that there is a strong focus on securing data.

It is easy to say that a product team or systems engineering team has to build security in from the start, but what does that actually mean? Well, that means that from the very beginning of a project, engineering teams have thought through how to enhance the security rigor of the project all the way through completion. This is something lacking in many of today's fast-paced agile development programs. There is an investment required to achieving this rigor, both in time and money...