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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 7. Identity and Access Management Solutions for the IoT

While society continues to adopt ever more smart home appliances and IoT wearables, the IoT is diversifying into broader applications for different professions, and governments and throughout industries. The network connectivity needed to support it is becoming ubiquitous and, to that end, devices will need to be identified and access provisioned in new and different environments and organizations. This chapter provides an introduction to identity and access management for IoT devices. The identity life cycle is reviewed, and a discussion on infrastructure components required for provisioning authentication credentials is provided, with a heavy focus on PKI. We will also examine different types of authentication credentials and discuss new approaches to providing authorization and access control for IoT devices.

We will address these subjects in the following topic areas:

  • Introductory discussion on Identity and Access Management...