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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

Cloud-based security services for the IoT


CSPs that offer IoT services may also provide security services tailored specifically to IoT implementations. These may include:

  • Device onboarding
  • Key and certificate management
  • Policy management
  • Persistent configuration management
  • Gateway security
  • Device management
  • Security monitoring
  • Compliance monitoring

Device onboarding

Before IoT devices can support your organization's use cases, they must be onboarded into your system. The process of onboarding transitions devices from an untrusted to a trusted state within your organization. After the onboarding process is complete, the devices are registered, provisioned with required identity and cryptographic materials, and configured.

Although onboarding seems like a simple concept, there are two primary challenges that must be overcome:

  • The scale of the IoT makes it difficult to onboard all of your devices manually
  • Transitioning from untrusted to trusted states provides bad actors an opportunity to infiltrate your...