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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

Detection and analysis


Today's Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems are powerful tools that allow correlation between any type of observable event to flag possible incidents. These same systems can of course be configured to monitor the infrastructure that supports IoT devices; however, there are considerations that will affect the ability to maintain a sufficient degree of situational awareness across a deployed IoT system:

  • IoT systems are heavily dependent on cloud-hosted infrastructures or edge gateway systems
  • IoT systems may include highly constrained (that is, limited processing, storage, or communication ability) devices that often lack the ability to capture and forward event logs

These considerations drive a need to architect the monitoring infrastructure to capture instrumentation data from CSPs that support the system, as well as anything that is possible from the devices themselves.

Although there are limited options available in this regard, some small start-up...