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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

Chapter 8. Setting Up a Compliance Monitoring Program for the IoT

The security industry comprises an extremely broad set of communities, overarching goals, capabilities, and day-to-day activities. The purpose of each, in one form or another, is to better secure systems and applications and reduce risks within the ever-changing threat landscape. Compliance represents a necessary aspect to security risk management, but is frequently regarded as a dirty word in security. There is a good reason for this. The term compliance invokes feelings of near-zombie-like adherence to sets of bureaucratically derived requirements that are tailored to mitigate a broad set of static threats. That's a mouthful of justifiable negativity.

We'll let you in on a second, dirty, not-so-much-of-a secret in our community: compliance, by itself, fails to actually secure systems. That said, security is only one element of risk. Lack of compliance to an industry, government, or other authority can also increase risks...