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Mastering IOT

By : Colin Dow, Perry Lea
Book Image

Mastering IOT

By: Colin Dow, Perry Lea

Overview of this book

The Internet of Things (IoT) is the fastest growing technology market. Industries are embracing IoT technologies to improve operational expenses, product life, and people's well-being. We’ll begin our journey with an introduction to Raspberry Pi and quickly jump right into Python programming. We’ll learn all concepts through multiple projects, and then reinforce our learnings by creating an IoT robot car. We’ll examine modern sensor systems and focus on what their power and functionality can bring to our system. We’ll also gain insight into cloud and fog architectures, including the OpenFog standards. The Learning Path will conclude by discussing three forms of prevalent attacks and ways to improve the security of our IoT infrastructure. By the end of this Learning Path, we will have traversed the entire spectrum of technologies needed to build a successful IoT system, and will have the confidence to build, secure, and monitor our IoT infrastructure. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: Internet of Things Programming Projects by Colin Dow Internet of Things for Architects by Perry Lea
Table of Contents (34 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Free Chapter
1
The IoT Story
Index

Part 5 – Threat and security in IoT


We conclude the book with a survey of IoT compromises and attacks. In many cases, IoT systems will not be secured in a home, or in a company. They will be in the public, in very remote areas, in moving vehicles, or even inside a person. The IoT represents the single biggest attack surface for any type of cyber attack. We have seen countless academic hacks, well-organized cyber assaults, and even nation-state security breaches with IoT devices being the target. This chapter will detail several aspects of such breaches and types of remediation any architect must consider to make a consumer or enterprise IoT deployment a good citizen of the internet. We explore the proposed Congressional Act to secure the IoT, and understand the motivation and impact of such government mandate.  

The chapter will checklist the typical security provisions needed for IoT, or any network component. Details of new technologies such as blockchains and Software Defined Perimeters...