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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

Secure design goals


There is no one-size-fits-all secure design for an IoT (or any other) system. Some IT systems operate in a threat environment that requires them to operate offline and air-gapped from any other network. Even these systems face novel attack methods, such as social engineering and insider threats.

No system is ever 100% secure; however, we can define goals for a secure, available, and resilient system that reliably mitigates attacks from all but the most determined adversaries.

Here we define some of these goals, and describe ways to achieve them within your IoT systems. Tailor each of these as necessary to fit your unique system requirements and threat profile.

Design IoT systems that mitigate automated attack risks

If you examine some of the major botnet variants from the last few years, you'll notice that their success is driven primarily based on the lack of good cyber hygiene applied to IoT devices.

Bashlight, for example, compromised more than a million IoT devices by...