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Practical Internet of Things Security - Second Edition

By : Brian Russell, Drew Van Duren
Book Image

Practical Internet of Things Security - Second Edition

By: Brian Russell, Drew Van Duren

Overview of this book

With the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT), businesses have to defend against new types of threat. The business ecosystem now includes the cloud computing infrastructure, mobile and fixed endpoints that open up new attack surfaces. It therefore becomes critical to ensure that cybersecurity threats are contained to a minimum when implementing new IoT services and solutions. This book shows you how to implement cybersecurity solutions, IoT design best practices, and risk mitigation methodologies to address device and infrastructure threats to IoT solutions. In this second edition, you will go through some typical and unique vulnerabilities seen within various layers of the IoT technology stack and also learn new ways in which IT and physical threats interact. You will then explore the different engineering approaches a developer/manufacturer might take to securely design and deploy IoT devices. Furthermore, you will securely develop your own custom additions for an enterprise IoT implementation. You will also be provided with actionable guidance through setting up a cryptographic infrastructure for your IoT implementations. You will then be guided on the selection and configuration of Identity and Access Management solutions for an IoT implementation. In conclusion, you will explore cloud security architectures and security best practices for operating and managing cross-organizational, multi-domain IoT deployments.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Chapter 10. Cloud Security for the IoT

Cloud services bind distributed edge devices together, and provide analytics, intelligence, data storage, and event-processing capabilities for IoT systems. Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) offer menus of IoT-tailored services that make it easier to connect, manage, monitor, and control large numbers of devices.

With these services, system designers can implement new cloud-based capabilities such as asset and inventory management, service provisioning, billing and entitlements management, sensor coordination, customer intelligence and marketing, information sharing, and messaging.

These services expose interfaces for IoT products, and these interfaces and the services that support IoT at the edge must remain secure. 

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • The role of the cloud in IoT systems
  • Threats to IoT cloud services 
  • The concept of the fog
  • Cloud-based security services for IoT systems