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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

The secure IoT system implementation lifecycle


In Chapter 3, Security Engineering for IoT Development, we addressed security design within the overarching IoT system implementation lifecycle. This chapter focuses on the other critical aspects of the IoT security lifecycle, to include implementation and integration, operation and maintenance, and disposal. The following figure provides a graphical depiction of the IoT security lifecycle that begins with the introduction of safety, privacy, and security engineering in the system design stage, and concludes with the secure disposal of IoT assets as their effective lifetime is reached.

Implementation and integration

End-user organizations will have many options for deploying functional IoT capabilities. Some organizations will develop IoT systems themselves; however, many options will exist for the procurement of pre-packaged IoT systems that include IoT devices with pre-established connectivity to edge infrastructures, cloud interfaces, backend...