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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

Summary


This chapter provided guidance on building, maintaining, and executing an incident response plan, including the challenges and methods of IoT forensics. We defined IoT incident response and management and discussed the unique details related to executing IoT incident response activities.

Furthermore, this chapter established analytical aspects of IoT devices, as well as usage of IoT data in forensic activities.

The safe and secure implementation of IoT systems is a difficult challenge to undertake, given the unique characteristics of these systems, their ability to impact events in the physical world, and the diverse nature of IoT implementations. This book has attempted to provide practical advice for designing and deploying many types of complex IoT systems.

We hope that you are able to tailor this guidance to your own unique environments, even as the pace of change in this high-potential technology area continues to increase.