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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

Threats to both safety and security


Ideally, misuse cases will be created during the upfront threat modeling process. Many specific misuse patterns can then be generated for each misuse case. Misuse patterns should be low-level enough that they can be decomposed into signature sets applicable to the monitoring technology (for example, IDS/IPS, SIEM, and so on) that will be used both on-premises and in your cloud environment.

Patterns can include device patterns, network patterns, service performance, and just about anything that indicates potential misuse, malfunction, or outright compromise, as follows:

In many IoT use cases, SIEMs can be telemetry-enhanced. We say telemetry-enhanced SIEMs, because physically interacting IoT devices have many additional properties that may be monitorable and important for detecting misbehavior or misuse. Temperature, time of day, status and performance of actuators, event correlation with other neighboring IoT device states: almost any kind of available data...