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Practical Internet of Things Security

By : Drew Van Duren, Brian Russell
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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

PbD principles


Today's IoT-enabled businesses and infrastructures can no longer afford to incrementally bolt on privacy enforcement mechanisms as a reactionary afterthought. That is why privacy engineering and design has evolved as a necessity and gained significant traction in recent years. This section discusses privacy design and engineering related to the Internet of Things.

Privacy embedded into design

Privacy engineering is driven completely by policy. It ensures that:

  • Policy leads to privacy-related requirements and controls

  • Underlying system-level design, interfaces, security patterns, and business processes support these

Privacy engineering satisfies the policies (clarified by an organization's legal department) at a technical level in every facet of technical interpretation and implementation. Security engineering and privacy engineering are closely intertwined. One can think of the system and security engineering as implementing the device and system level security functions that satisfy...